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Friday, April 23, 2010

Recommended Reading for Newt Gingrich � The Quick and the Ed

Recommended Reading for Newt Gingrich � The Quick and the Ed

Recommended Reading for Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich trots out all sorts of over-heated rhetoric in his op-ed in today’s Washington Post. One of his examples of President Obama’s march toward “socialism” caught my eye:
Nationalizing student loans so that they are a bureaucratic monopoly. This will surely lead to fraud on the scale we see in Medicare and Medicaid, from which more than $70 billion per year is stolen.
Er…? Apparently Gingrich missed some important reading, so I’d recommend this post from my colleague Ben