GOP Rep: Federal Student Loans A ‘Slippery Slope’ That Could Lead To Holocaust

[TroyD]

Sep 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm

According to Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), federal student loans are the start of a “slippery slope” that could eventually lead to a Holocaust. While speaking at Maryland’s Allegany College on Wednesday, Bartlett invoked this horrid comparison while arguing that government loans are unconstitutional:

Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans, it certainly is a good idea to give them loans. But if you can ignore the Constitution to do something good today, tomorrow you will be ignoring the Constitution to do something bad. You could. There are more people in our, in America today of German ancestry than any other [inaudible]. The Holocaust that occurred in Germany — how in the heck could that happen? And when you start down the wrong road, it can be a very slippery slope.

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/09/06/808841/student-loans-holocaust/

[Angry Dragon]

1. Another idiot heard from

[modrepub]

2. Let's go back to the old system

Where the banks set the interest rate and collected the money but the US taxpayer payed off the bank and assumed the loan if it went bad.

[rfranklin]

3. He's absolutely correct....

College education should be free like it is in other civilized countries.

[bunnies]

4. Lay off the bath salts, Bartlett.

Next thing you know you'll be eating someones face!

[JRLeft]

5. The world would be a better place if that party died.

[TroyD]

6. I sent a copy of this video/transcript to David Pakman

He will probably use it on his show and help expose more of the GOP's bizarre behavior.

[lordsummerisle]

7. Another Headline

that could just as easily have come from The Onion...

[GodlessBiker]

9. Sadly true.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Roscoe? A tea bagging shit for brains know nothing nothing.

[gkhouston]

10. So, if you give Americans of German descent student loans, they'll use them to start the Holocaust?

Whatever happened to blowing your college money on a wicked sound system?