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Banks are getting upwards of $9 billion a year. secondly, if a student defaults, we are still responsible. so the banks, frankly, are a pass-through. so that's really the difference here, and so the federal government was already providing student loans anyway. right now some 2,300 universities are participating in the direct student loan program from the department of education, according to the obama administration up to 1,000 colleges a few years ago. so if you're a high school student, if you're a parent, someone in college, at the end of the day you get more money. but also, we can't leav...