Where to begin with you, P-man. Once you have real-world, non-academic, non-governmental life experience you will understand why conservatives believe in minimal government. We believe that giving it less opportunity to screw things up is a good thing and that its only legitimate functions are defined in the Constitution. Government isn’t interested in doing things cheaper, better, and faster. For example, a businessman would deal with the high cost of education by trying to find ways to cut costs. How does the government deal with it? By making it easier for you to borrow the money. In addition to being a really lousy job of root cause analysis, that approach does nothing to help you save the money for the down payment on that first house. (BTW, notice how much your professors feel your pain.)
