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#1 Oct 02 2013 at 10:46 AM Rating: Excellent
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I was reading this on my lunch break. It gave me a chuckle.

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Although John Connelly said the Affordable Care Act aids his family, a politician’s false claim that the bill harmed Connelly led MSNBC to air a brief interview Friday with the former Rutgers University Student Assembly president.

The Wall Street Journal featured Connelly, a School Of Arts And Sciences senior, in a recent article detailing the ways student debt contributes to young people’s inability to secure jobs.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, used Connelly as an example of a victim of the Affordable Care Act during his marathon speech against the bill.

“The son of a New Jersey auto mechanic, he was the first in his family to go to college when he enrolled in Rutgers in 2009,” Cruz read to the Senate floor on Sept. 24. “Four years later, the 22-year-old found himself $21,000 in debt, without a permanent job and sleeping on friends’ couches in New Jersey and Brooklyn.”

Upon discovering Cruz completely misused his anecdote, Connelly called out the Senator on Twitter, which caught the attention of MSNBC. During his appearance, Connelly explained that he is actually a proponent of the bill.

“If I’m the Obamacare horror story ... then it’s working really freaking well,” he said. “My little sister wouldn’t be able to have health insurance if it wasn’t for the Affordable Care Act because she had a preexisting condition.”

Although Connelly struggled to pay for tuition, he does not blame the Obama administration. He said politicians like Cruz should focus less on theatrics and more on funding the government.
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#2 Oct 02 2013 at 10:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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A smart politicritter would have just wasted time reading various phone books and the Thai restaurant menu they found on the door of the capital building that morning and not risk someone actually paying attention.
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#3 Oct 02 2013 at 10:58 AM Rating: Good
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smart politicritter would have just wasted time reading various phone books and the Thai restaurant menu they found on the door of the capital building that morning and not risk someone actually paying attention.

His constituency are morons who believe he is magic. It doesn't matter what he's "wrong" about.
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Yeah, I was mostly laughing because it's sort of like gbaji's constant delusion that everyone agrees with the Republicans until its explicitly stated otherwise.
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#5 Oct 02 2013 at 11:04 AM Rating: Good
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Yeah, I was mostly laughing because it's sort of like gbaji's constant delusion that everyone agrees with the Republicans until its explicitly stated otherwise.

At which time he would make claims of indoctrination.
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#6 Oct 02 2013 at 11:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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#7 Oct 02 2013 at 11:25 AM Rating: Good
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“Four years later, the 22-year-old found himself $21,000 in debt


A law that has been gradually rolled out during a recession caused this guy to have reasonable student loan debt but no job to pay it back!

Seriously, $21K is not a horrible amount of student loan debt. There are people out there getting rolled by the for profit schools with four to five times that much and no means of paying it back. I had $30K coming out of undergrad over ten years ago and whittled it down to $17K before I went back to grad school and put it back to $40K.
#8 Oct 02 2013 at 11:28 AM Rating: Good
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“Four years later, the 22-year-old found himself $21,000 in debt


A law that has been gradually rolled out during a recession caused this guy to have reasonable student loan debt but no job to pay it back!

Seriously, $21K is not a horrible amount of student loan debt. There are people out there getting rolled by the for profit schools with four to five times that much and no means of paying it back. I had $30K coming out of undergrad over ten years ago and whittled it down to $17K before I went back to grad school and put it back to $40K.


We spent the same amount of time at the same school from the same years, and I graduated with more than $21k (less than $30K, though).

And while Rutgers tuition exploded during the past decade, it's still an incredibly reasonable tuition for the quality of the education. $21k, is 1/4 of his total tuition for four years at the school, assuming he lived on campus.
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#9 Oct 03 2013 at 10:53 AM Rating: Good
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That's the same education that taught you the Aztecs were more advanced than 16th century Castille, right? It's worthless.

University is a pyramid scheme.
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#10 Oct 03 2013 at 10:57 AM Rating: Good
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That's the same education that taught you the Aztecs were more advanced than 16th century Castille, right? It's worthless.

University is a pyramid scheme.


Crusader Kings University.
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#11 Oct 03 2013 at 11:16 AM Rating: Good
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That's the same education that taught you the Aztecs were more advanced than 16th century Castille, right? It's worthless.

University is a pyramid scheme.


Crusader Kings University.


Ah, Iddigory learned about the sunset clause at university, too?
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