Question: now, leaving the cliche of the dysfunction of congress out of it for a second, because that’s assumed in the equation these days, there is what most recently happened. many complain about the negotiated fix on student loans, that it actually puts students in a worse situation than they were before. why should students feel and families feel that they’re going to be taken care of, when congress just tied them to a rate that’s higher than just about any other lending?
Answer: well, actually, that’s not true now, chris. what happened was that the student interest rate had doubled. and what we were able to do was to negotiate it so it was back down to a low level. now, what’s true is, as interest rates go up because it’s now tied to market interest rates, that could push the interest rate higher. and that’s why it’s important for us to continue to act. that was in some ways a stop-gap measure. what we now need to do is to make sure that we are dealing with the underlying costs. you know, the problem we’ve got right now is, is that on – when it comes to liberals, they’ve tended to say, “let’s just give more money to the system and increase student loans and grants and aid,” and then, you know, you’ve got some on the right who’ve said, “money doesn’t matter, and young people should be able to figure it out on their own.” and what we’re saying is, no, we should provide more help to young people. government shouldn’t be in the job of profiting from students who need to go to college. but we should also expect something from the colleges, which is they’re controlling their costs better, and we should expect something from the students. one of the problems we’ve found is, is that a lot of students, because in part they’re not well-informed, they’re taking out a lot of loans, but they’re not thinking through how fast they need to graduate, they never graduate, and they can’t pay back the loans. that means the taxpayer is getting stuck and the young person is no better off than they would have been. they’re worse off.
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  now, leaving the cliche of the dysfunction of congress out of it for a second, because that’s assumed in the equation these days, there is what most recently happened. many complain about the negotiated fix on student loans, that it actually puts students in a worse situation than they were before. why should students feel and families feel that they’re going to be taken care of, when congress just tied them to a rate that’s higher than just about any other lending?
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  well, actually, that’s not true now, chris. what happened was that the student interest rate had doubled. and what we were able to do was to negotiate it so it was back down to a low level. now, what’s true is, as interest rates go up because it’s now tied to market interest rates, that could push the interest rate higher. and that’s why it’s important for us to continue to act. that was in some ways a stop-gap measure. what we now need to do is to make sure that we are dealing with the underlying costs. you know, the problem we’ve got right now is, is that on – when it comes to liberals, they’ve tended to say, “let’s just give more money to the system and increase student loans and grants and aid,” and then, you know, you’ve got some on the right who’ve said, “money doesn’t matter, and young people should be able to figure it out on their own.” and what we’re saying is, no, we should provide more help to young people. government shouldn’t be in the job of profiting from students who need to go to college. but we should also expect something from the colleges, which is they’re controlling their costs better, and we should expect something from the students. one of the problems we’ve found is, is that a lot of students, because in part they’re not well-informed, they’re taking out a lot of loans, but they’re not thinking through how fast they need to graduate, they never graduate, and they can’t pay back the loans. that means the taxpayer is getting stuck and the young person is no better off than they would have been. they’re worse off.