It isn't just college loan debt that college students, and their parents, have to worry about. It is finding a job, a good paying job here in the US, or any job here!, after graduation. If you think the Republicans care one bit about your lousy job prospects and America's plight, you can vote Republican.
But if we get more years,2 or 4, of stubborn obstructionism and threats to debt limit crash our federal government, don't expect much sympathy when you could have all voted your own best interests and voted a straight Democrat ballot. Not that i am so impressed with the Democrats, but we don't have a viable 3rd party like other advanced Western European countries. Most must realize that it was frustration, but a mistake to vote in so many 'do-nothing' but damage Republicans in 2008. Do you really think the Republicans will ever bring back Glass-Stegall to make our banking system much more safe!?
This year there is a clear choice in direction, and women and the elderly and especially the unemployed,,, and college students can be the silent tsunami of votes that close the door on more wasted time in Congress, wasted subsidies, and wasted opportunity to do something constructive, besides continue tax breaks for the rich and powerful that don't need them ! If you want to go back to the last Republican President Bush with a low 22% approval rating, you can destroy the country with your votes. If you want to get rid of all medical insurance cost control attempts by the Fed and go back to the Middle Ages socially, where if you have the money you get the medicine, you can vote Republican.
If you want our infrastructure of roads and bridges and sewers to continue to fail, and explode like the gas line in San Bruno, ignoring the massive deterioration and neglected repair nationwide for more decades, you can vote Republican,,, and hit more potholes and pay for more tires and steering alignment bills. If you believe you only work, if you can find a job that has not been subsidized to ship it overseas!, so your boss can get richer and richer and Wall Street stockbrokers can get $M bonuses,,,and your fair pay and benefits don't matter, you can vote Republican. If you think this current 'Great Recession' does not matter or effect you and you don't care about your fellow born-in-the-USA Americans, you can vote Republican.
If you have dual citizenship or are here on a green card and never planned on retiring here anyway, but in some other country you feel more loyal to than the USA, you can vote Republican. If you feel it is not your responsibility to pay taxes, but that is for some other poor dumb uneducated fool to get stuck with your share, you can vote Republican. If you don't value women and how hard it is for them to get pregnant with all these rubber stamp approved pesticides and 80,000 dangerous chemicals in our environment, you can vote Republican. If you agree with our former Governor of California that it is not any government's responsibility, city county state or federal, to take care of the mentally ill and they can just walk the streets of America, you can vote Republican.
If you really want things to get much much worse in the USA, you can vote Republican. My parents survived the Great Depression where my Dad and his sister had to be given to relatives to be feed clothed and sheltered because Bank of America took away with foreclosure their peach farm and family home,,, and survived the Second World War, so yeah, we might survive worse financial and economic and social conditions than we have now, but are you that sadistic-masochistic to vote for any Republican?
i hope on election day, the elderly and women and the unemployed and the underemployed and college students especially all realize their enormous power, more than any amount of money!, the power of the Vote! We all need to get along and work together if the USA is to be saved. God bless us ALL !
