Surprise Legislation Added in on Majority Whim

Power-thirsty President Obama taunted the minority party after the passage of his bill, telling them to "Go for it," in response to the Republican calls for repeal. He then made 15 senior appointments without any Senate consent, which included a union lawyer whose nomination has previously been blocked by a filibuster. Ignoring Republican objections, he also neutralized the party's filibuster threat with one of his many parliamentary maneuvers, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, in order to pass his legislation on education along with the bill.

Once again, we have just undergone a drastic and impulsive "change" without any actual opinion from the public, with little or no media coverage, and through the ever-growing tyranny in Congress.

So what has Mr. Obama forced upon us this time?

The Wall Street Journal reported that, "Democrats attached to the bill a major overhaul of student-lending laws, which eliminated a federal subsidy for private tuition lenders, federalized most student loans and plowed the savings into expanded federal higher education aid. Republicans say the bill will destroy the private student-lending market."

Essentially, the President attached to the health care bill yet another piece, fitting the Democrat's platform, but having nothing to do with the original topic of health care that was actually voted on in the Senate. But in ObamaPolitics, little things like Constitutionality, legality, citizens rights, the free market, or representation have never actually mattered, so I suppose none of this should surprise us. The only real connection this new legislation appears to have is that it too is a government takeover within the private sector that will give them further control over ideological state apparatuses and the lives of the American people. Our current President's systematic takeover has now extended into the lives, health care, income, and even modes of education of the American public, gradually eliminating every channel that can be used for resistance in this country, and arming the federal government with the means of the total control and domination of the American people. What is left for them to take over? The current President has certainly done his homework. For anyone who has been assigned reading on Marx or socialism in school, or is perhaps familiar with Althusser's discussion on Ideology and the State, it is clear that this president will not stop in his quest to "change" America into a socialized nation in every way but the label.
And the worst part? By the time people realize what the labels "ObamaCare," "Change," and "Progressive" are actually entailing, it will be too late.

So yes, fellow students, celebrate what the media is claiming to be "more affordable education." Never mind that part of the reason tuition is so high in the first place is due to the fact that Universities knew that they could charge all that they wanted and the government would be footing most of the bill. Never mind that the government is being granted the power to determine who goes to school and who doesn't, with finance as its tool and the destruction of the private student lending market as its insurance.

As reported by the Washington Post, Steve Wymer, spokesman for the Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee explained, "We want students to have as many lending options as possible. To make the federal government, the Department of Education, a monopoly bank is not the best thing for students."

And he's right. Once again, Mr. Obama and his workers in Congress have forced through yet another change, without a single vote of support from the other party. Once again, we are seeing the way the Democrats will quickly form a plan and, without any consideration for the consent of the governed or for the long-term consequences beyond what their partisan politics can predict with their complete lack of experience in the private sector, we now have another drastic change. To get a student loan, we will now wait for a response from the government and hope that we get the answer we're looking for. And if we don't, then I suppose we're screwed, because the government is now also the monopoly is student lending, leaving us no option once again but to succumb to its ever-growing power.