| | ...the radicals of the 1960s went further to launch a wholesale attack on American culture and the middle-class way of life, which they condemned as repressive and, worse, boring. The cultural radicalism of the 1960s, derived from the Beats of the 1950s, was so appealing to the new campus left because it promised something beyond political reform--namely, a different way of life with a revised set of morals... <ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=6120&R=163E436DC8VI James Piereson, ''The Left University'', part VI], The Weekly Standard, October 3, 2005 Volume 011, Issue 03</ref>}} | | ...the radicals of the 1960s went further to launch a wholesale attack on American culture and the middle-class way of life, which they condemned as repressive and, worse, boring. The cultural radicalism of the 1960s, derived from the Beats of the 1950s, was so appealing to the new campus left because it promised something beyond political reform--namely, a different way of life with a revised set of morals... <ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=6120&R=163E436DC8VI James Piereson, ''The Left University'', part VI], The Weekly Standard, October 3, 2005 Volume 011, Issue 03</ref>}} |
| | + | In his State of the Union address of 2010, President Obama called for extending complete forgiveness of student loans to students who spend 10 years in public service careers. This would be an extension of 2007 College Cost Reduction Act, which took effect in July 2009. This provision may be seen as being conducive to further promoting an entitlement mentality, and populating government with those who often manifest and and propagate the same.<ref>http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0110/012710ar2.htm</ref> |