{"id":15698,"date":"2012-09-27T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15698"},"modified":"2012-09-27T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:54:38","slug":"the-impact-of-president-obamas-policies-on-the-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15698","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Of President Obama&#8217;s Policies On Young Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Michael Barone (pundit)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Barone_%28pundit%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Barone<\/a> posted an article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/barone-obamas-war-on-young-voters-who-elected-him\/article\/2509016?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2009\/26\/2012&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest#.UGQria42eE9\">Washington Examiner<\/a> explaining the impact of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/barack-obama-12782369\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> policies on young <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voting\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One area that will be a problem for young voters in the future is the rapid expansion of college loans. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Public policy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_policy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">government policies<\/a> in regard to college loans are creating a debt bubble not unlike the housing bubble of recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The article lists some of the ways government policies impact the young. Mr. Barone concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Obama&#8217;s policies, from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare<\/a> to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"High-speed rail\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-speed_rail\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">high-speed rail<\/a>, treat people as identical cogs in a very large machine, part of a mindless mass who would not be able to get along without government guidance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In the information age, these industrial-age policies have prevented the vibrant <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Economic growth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_growth\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">economic growth<\/a>, which gives <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Youth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Youth\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">young people<\/a> the opportunity to find work and community service that maximizes their own special talents and interests &#8212; to shape their own world and choose their own future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if the young voters in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">America<\/a> have the wisdom to vote in their own interests (and the interests of the rest of us).<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=16ecd3ca-55a4-42ca-939b-df93ed0e7979\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Michael Barone posted an article at the Washington Examiner explaining the impact of President Obama&#8217;s policies on young voters. One area that will be a problem for young voters in the future is the rapid expansion of college &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,275,562,134,285,368,430,4032,4033],"class_list":["post-15698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-michael-barone","tag-obama","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-united-states","tag-voting","tag-washington-examiner","tag-youth","tag-youth-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15703,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}