[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Hey Obama, go to Cuba, and take your family with you. Enjoy your free education and healthcare.

And way to go Johnny. Sounds like he's waiting to hear more about this communist proposal.

[I want the USA back]

Free means someone else pays.
He wants this to be first step to completely “free” college.

[Sacajaweau]

What demographics is he headed for? Or is this just another way of pulling information about our bank accounts. It's sure not going to be a no questions asked "program".

And what will be the trade off....community service??...like he did?? Betcha!!

[Bernard]

...and everybody gets a pony. The guy is obviously delusional. Hopefully he is not allowed near sharp things or sign contracts.

[House Atreides]

The ‘RATS are falling back on the “Free Lunch” strategy. Barry, I’ve got news for you—in basketball, you can’t coach height and elsewhere, you can’t teach IQ.

This is another attempt to buy votes and, as a bonus, further weaken and destroy America.

[Ann Archy]

Free!!! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHA Santa Barak Hussein gives out OUR money to HIS people AGAIN!!

[FreedomGuru]

Free Everything! Except freedom.

[ballplayer]

No need response is not No,Hell NO,but he did not tell me the cost,what an ahole

[cva66snipe]

Obama will destroy what makes Tennessee's Community Colleges a huge plus value in education. For example Pellissippi State where he will speak today is affordable enough so even a student living at home slinging burgers part time can pay their own tuition and leave school with a degree and debt free. It doesn't have the required PC courses the universities have. Obama will force these colleges {by taking federal funding in his program} to offer his crap course on diversity etc etc. This will in turn drive up the tax burden on the state and federal government.

Our Community College Program in Tennessee isn't broken, is a higher quality education system above the larger state universities, and doesn't need Obama fixing it for us. I'm contacting my General Assembly members to encourage them to decline the offer. Tennessee is two house majority GOP so maybe they will decline it. The huge problem will be two RINO US Senators and a RINO governor.

[Sooth2222]

My wife has been taking courses at the local community college since she retired. The quality of the courses seems to be fairly good, and one definite advantage the community college has over private colleges is that the tuition and fees are fairly cheap.

I'd expect that to change if congress listens to him. The easiest way to make anything ridiculously expensive -- from health care to education -- is to ask congress to make it "free".

[The Working Man]

As a thought experiment...

What happens to ‘Community Colleges’ when MUY’s (Minority Urban Youth’s’ decide that their campuses ‘deserve’ their presence and turn them into the modern equivalent of the Mall where they fight over ‘turf’ and make the whole learning experience a complete disaster for those who really want an education? One I mean that is not filled with fear of not being able to make the next class or even making it home.

[TonyM]

Nice of Obama to be so generous with other people’s money.

[rfreedom4u]

Free huh? Then “who” pray tell is going to pay for it?

Let me guess....US TAXPAYERS!

[imardmd1]

“Free”? To whom?

[nathanbedford]

We are informed that the quest for socialized medicine has been a goal of the left since the progressive age. I have been recently housebound for a time and I have been watching old videos, over seven years worth, of "The West Wing."

It is remarkable how many of the initiatives of the Obama administration are portrayed in these decade old dramas written by Arron Sorkin and produced by the likes of rabid leftists such as Lawrence O'Donnell. The aims never change, the tactics are ever-changing, the strategy never changes, the venue is always a matter of their choice, reality never changes but history is ever rewritten.

The stories are remarkably well-written from a dramatic point of view. History is also rewritten and cleverly so to the extent that the average viewer who was not well-educated will simply accept brazen lies as the story of America.

There was a program in two parts entitled, "20 hours in America" in which the protagonists come to the conclusion that America must grant tax deduction for college tuition. Today we see Obama offering free tuition at community colleges as a slight change in tactics but one that is consistent with overall strategy to institutionalize higher education in the hands of the left at the expense of the taxpayer (or more precisely at the expense of the taxpayer's children and grandchildren who will be stuck with the bill).

The same preview of Obama's positions on the environment are to be seen in episodes of The West Wing. Indeed, virtually everything that we see being played out on the national stage today can be seen in the seven years of The West Wing.

For the left the game is always changing that is, the rules of the game, but the endgame never changes.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Great idea! Now President Obama, how do you propose to pay for it?

[Cronos]

A better choice would be to have scholarships with a buy-in. So say that if you get the right scores to go to college, you need to pay it off by putting in community time for x number of years.

[sten]

i’m supposed to pay for free college for everyone now??

who paid for my college?

oh yea... *I* did.

where’s my reparations?

[ThePatriotsFlag]

The only thing he can do effectively is give away money, hell anybody can do that.

[IamConservative]

This proposal is only marginally different than giving student loans for college for degrees that have no hope of returning the investment. What Obama is proposing removes the moral hazard of having to repay the loan.

I’m sure this program will produce a better result. /s

[arthurus]

Obama Proposes Federalizing and Debasing Community Colleges.

"Free" community college will keep Americans out of the work force longer and give the wetbacks a head start in the job market.