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.
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.