# Bush wants to eliminate Perkins Loans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008 "2005-02-14T15:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![cj\_finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cj\_finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cj_finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008/101 "2005-02-17T20:54:36Z")
> [@The Mermaid](#): > > At any rate, bitching over things we have absolutely no control over is a waste of precious time. I’d rather think of it in terms of finding out what I have to deal with and then _dealing_ with it. I would tend to agree with you in principle except that insofar as the proposals to change the student loan programs are being made as part of a democratic process, we DO have control of this thing, albeit tenuous. If you think Perkins loans should stick around, write your representatives. If you don’t, write your representatives. Being dismissive isn’t going to help. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008/102 "2005-02-17T21:25:21Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > You know, I should be rolling around in giant piles of schaadenfreude right now seeing Dio getting a taste of the kind of abuse he has so easily leveled at others in the past. > > But you know what? The abuse is just as obnoxious when it’s going in his direction. > > You all need to lighten the fuck up and start treating each other a little better. This is supposed to be a community. “You all”. That’s pretty fucking hilarious, Sam. Let everyone know the next time you’re going to do a live show. It’ll be a full house. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008/103 "2005-02-17T21:46:41Z")
> [@cj finn](#): > > I would tend to agree with you in principle except that insofar as the proposals to change the student loan programs are being made as part of a democratic process, we DO have control of this thing, albeit tenuous. If you think Perkins loans should stick around, write your representatives. If you don’t, write your representatives. Being dismissive isn’t going to help. > > CJ Well Ok then, start a letter writing campaign, post flyers, spread the word, DO SOMETHING other than gripe and complain. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008/104 "2005-02-17T21:47:43Z")
Oh and the less said about ass-rape the better. ---
**Author:** ![cj\_finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cj\_finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cj_finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008/105 "2005-02-17T22:37:22Z")
> [@The Mermaid](#): > > Well Ok then, start a letter writing campaign, post flyers, spread the word, DO SOMETHING other than gripe and complain. You did read my post didn’t you? Unless I suffered a stroke in the recent past, this is just what I was suggesting to you. I do agree with you on the ass rape thing though. CJ ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008/106 "2005-02-17T23:01:26Z")
Okay, folks, enough with the…whatever is going on with **Diogenes**. Whatever posters do outside the SDMB should stay there. Unless it’s something germane to posting behavior here, either take it to e-mail or back to where it started. TVeblen Pit mod [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-wants-to-eliminate-perkins-loans/290008.md?page=5)