March 12, 2010 11:48AM # Gagging on SAFRA By [Neal McCluskey](https://www.cato.org/people/neal-mccluskey) --- SHARE With [national curriculum standards](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11217) now getting some [real attention](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/03/10/ST2010031000033.html?sid=ST2010031000033), I haven’t been able to give the plan to [shove bankrupting student aid legislation down our thoats](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/politics/12loans.html) via health-care reconciliation the [scourging it deserves](https://www.cato.org/2009/09/14/full-house-to-vote-on-lie-of-a-bill/). I will soon, but until then [this “Water Cooler” piece](http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/mar/11/democrats-gamble-mixing-student-loans-and-healthca/) from the *Washington Times* should slake your thirst. Here’s a choice quote: > Watching the Democrats create two massive pieces of rotten legislation by themselves is bad enough, but piling them together is like watching someone make an enormous Dagwood sandwich with mysterious fillings and make you eat the mile high concoction in one sitting. Darn — acckkk! — right! ##### Related Tags [Education](https://www.cato.org/education), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care), [Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy), [Center for Educational Freedom](https://www.cato.org/center-educational-freedom) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).