January 9, 2008
N.H.'s Republican Winner and Higher Education
John McCain, the winner of last night’s Republican primary in New Hampshire, is well known among college (and other) lobbyists for being an ardent opponent of academic earmarks, the noncompetitive set-asides secured by lawmakers for scientific research and other projects at colleges and universities.
On other fronts important to higher education, the U.S. senator from Arizona helped craft compromise legislation last year to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws. The plan would have provided a path to legal residency for some illegal immigrants and included provisions to make some illegal immigrants eligible for federal student-loan and work-study programs.
Many political observers pointed to Mr. McCain’s backing of the bill, which died in the Senate, as a factor in his decline in political polls last summer. On the campaign trail, Mr. McCain has shifted his rhetoric. He now talks about how the nation needs to improve border security first, before turning to other issues, such as providing federal education benefits to some illegal immigrants.
Mr. McCain has gained a fair amount of support so far in the campaign from academic donors, ranking third among Republican presidential candidates in total donations from college employees and other educators. He received $228,000 from those individuals through October 30, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Sara Hebel | Posted on Wednesday January 9, 2008 | PermalinkComments
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I believe the same group controls both major political parties.
A group of bankers and businessmen had been trying to monopolize the banking industry. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson was elected President with the aid of a bribe from them.
They formed the Federal Reserve and are like our personal credit cards are for us except they are the credit card for the government. Well that and they pay no taxes that I know of. Anyway they’re at about at their 100-year anniversary.
They have grown to proportions that I believe they now control many of the politicians of the world. Not only can they buy politicians of both parties here, and control our borders, they can also control much of our spending.
Have you ever wondered why our once great nation has been spending money the way it does. It is sort of like how it would be to have a hundred wives on your credit cards and all of them dating those that own the credit card companies.
Think about what it means if they bribe a politician to back a plan that is beneficial to them while the politician spends the money we borrow from them to implement the program.
They make money when they lend money.
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.
Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation,
therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world.
No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by
conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by
the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
-Woodrow Wilson
— Carson Jan 9, 02:03 PM #