Posted on 05/22/2015 12:03:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You thought very wrong.
When the government taxes and take money from people who earned it then give that money to someone who didn’t earn it, it is socialism.
To say that he “earned” the scholarship is stretching the definition of earned. He met the government’s requirements to be given other people’s money.
Your concepts of socialism and economics appear fairly typical of what is taught in colleges today. That doesn’t make them correct.
Not all scholarships are government money, many are endowments from alumnae or industry.
What’s semi-surprising to me, as this story has been around for a few days, is that there are two questions that nobody’s asking.
1. I believe the application fee for each school is now about $200..unless it’s waived for minority applicants. That’s a lot of $$
2. The guidance counselors in his school should be fired for allowing him to apply to all of the Ivies. There job is to help him focus of which schools meet his goals, not to run an admissions lottery. Furthermore, it hurts the next student from that HS who applies to any of the Ivies...if it’s a close decision, they’ll likely reject him. It’s a well-known fact
An accurate count of the number of states in the US continues to baffle Obama.
I don’t believe the obamas had any debt to pay other then from a bribe.
I used to work with a guy that had a degree from Rensselaer. He was no smarter or more effective than the rest of us - he just had parents that could afford to send him to an elite school.
Turns out that most of what you need to know to be effective in the world is not taught in college. This guy will get just as good an education at Bama as he would at an ivy school - what he does with it depends on him. I’d much rather pay for his education than pay to provide minor league experience for some thug that knows how to run with a dead pig in his hands.
Someone somewhere impressed on me that beside an Ivy reputation, you really only need look at the size of the library for determining the quality of the university. I’d add that a conglomeration of colleges in an area also add to the size of the library.
The education you gain is not then so much from a prof as it is from your own work and research, using the resources at hand.
I took those lessons to heart. Professors tend toward fascism and socialism. They’re all tied up in the paper of their own work and egos, so, you’re basically on your own, paying through the nose-and you only have your own efforts to get your money’s worth.
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