This is for FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS. There is a MUCH larger market out there for student loans than only from the government. The government does support and subsidize private banks to give out student loans at low interest rates though.

But Obama has been working to control tuition increases.

How? Is he a dictator? How can he force anyone to lower their prices? The real question is, why are prices rising? The answer is that its easier and easier for kids with no credit to get a fat student loan because the government will basically back them up if the student doesnt pay it back, which in turn encourages the schools to raise tuition in perpetuity.

The govt subsidizes NIH and other institutions that do groundbreaking healthcare research. Do you think that is a bad thing?

I think they could be done more cheaply and effectively in the private market.

When Obama moved the banks out of being the middle men for govt student loans

He hasn't done this.

Banks making loans for profit that are backed by the government is not good practice.

This is still done every single day.

Do you think that you don't use the services that the govt provides?

Do I have a choice? Was I ever given a choice? Why do I have to pay into social security if I don't want to and I accept the fact that I will never receive those benefits in the future?

You breath air and drink water that is protected by the EPA.

The EPA is just an agency that gives out pollution permits to the biggest companies. They did a great job preventing the BP oil spill and allowing Nalco to dump millions of gallons of corexit into the ocean, which I'm sure they got a very lucrative contract for.

You travel on airplanes that are regulated by FAA for your safety.

They don't do a good job either.

The government doesn't always do what we want or what it should do, but to insinuate that it does nothing but waste our tax dollars on things we don't use is completely detaching yourself from reality.

Please man, the majority of money that the government gets is spent on killing other people. Not only that, but if you were to collect all tax receipts, that would only cover something like 40-50% of all government spending. The majority of government spending is just debt accumulation.

Since the only way the government can finance itself is by making people pay thing (involuntarily), it proves to me, from the outset, that people actually don't want what the government provides and would prefer something else with that money they would be able to keep instead.