Why Am I Not Surprised?

So Obama's fiscal 2013 budget proposal allows for the interest rates on federally-funded student Stafford loans to revert from the current 3.4% back to 6.8%. The rates would kick in July 1, 2013 (after the November election). So even though Obama has been traipsing the country telling college students that his administration would leave the rates at their current level but that the Republicans would allow them to rise, in point of fact, Obama's own budget has already got the rate increase in place. In other words, his budget plans and the Republicans' plans on this matter are the same.

Obama is cynically counting on college students' tendency to take his words at face value. How many college students will bother to fact-check these claims (or do what I do, which is get my news and information from the New Media rather than rely on mainstream news outlets)? Obama understands that college kids can't be bothered to double-check his claims. Most of them have already decided he's on their side, so he can say whatever he likes and they won't question it. This article mentions a Harvard poll showing Obama leading Romney among college aged voters. I'm not surprised--I interact with thesekids  on a daily basis. Most of them are not inclined to be skeptical of Obama.

I'm getting weary of this president's deceptive claims, his demonization of good people (yes, Republicans), his outright lies, his distortions. Are there any twenty-somethings out there who can see through his trickery and start speaking out? Will my own kids? their friends? their friends' friends?

Show me college aged kids who think and don't just feel, and I'll show you a path out of the mess Obama has made of this country.

Obama's Budget Would Double the Interest Rates on Student Loans After the Election