#33: He knows how important education is. (Part II)

If you read my blog last week, then you know that Obama is aware of how important education is.

I discussed the fact that I’m not 100% sure that his plan for education is TOTALLY perfect, but, like his healthcare plan, I feel that what he’s doing is going to be better than nothing. It’s a step in the right direction.

Let’s move on to higher education. Especially as my loan payments are slowly draining my bank account.

Obama isn’t just concerned with education at the basic level. He understands the importance of achieving your goals, and how huge a burden it is to be paying for your education while also just trying to make it on your own. I mean, in his own words, “I only paid off my student loans eight years ago.”

While this quote inspires faith in him for me, it also makes me go, “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.” It took a politician that long to pay off his loans? A politician with a lawyer who last worked for a hospital for a wife? It took them THAT LONG? I’m screwed.

But, at least I could get the education I wanted, no matter how badly it screwed me over in the years to come…or how angry it makes me when Mizzou calls me for donations…and not everyone gets the chance to make their dreams come true before they rant angrily at their alumni caller lists. President Obama has set his sights on changing that.

He wants all of us who want to go through higher education to have that chance, no matter our background or current economic circumstances.