Campus Republicans showed their true colors Monday, carrying signs saying Anyone but Clinton. They cried about their lack of access, and inability to have their side heard, but they made sure the media interviewed them so they could gripe. Then, without offering any suggestion of his own, their spokesman Bill Karrow said I am a perfect example of what is wrong with student aid. I didn’t need it, I don’t deserve it, but I took it anyway.

This does not illustrate what is wrong with student loan programs; it illustrates what is wrong with Republicans. G.O.P. really does stand for Greedy Old Pirates. And the young, brain dead ditto-heads goose step to the propaganda and scream cut my taxes. While insisting that America is the best country on earth, they admit that they want to tear our government down. He says if given a choice, he would not have made this the issue it has become. But he supports the Greedy Old Pirates who, just like the pirates of history, are well armed, take what others sweat for, and consider themselves free from the rules that protect their victims.

Thank God I am a liberal. My husband and I are the Clinton constituency. We left manufacturing jobs in a downsizing company to return to school. I am an honors student at SIU, and he supports me in an underpaid service position. I has been personally affected by the direct loan program. I am not someone who takes from the government aid I do not need or deserve. Without our government, we could not survive. We will pay back what we have borrowed, and we will support Bill Clinton. Maybe the Republicans on campus need to struggle for a while. Maybe they just need to think before they act. Maybe the Greedy Old Pirates need to learn compassion.

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