[G Larry]

Given the following:

Tax payers are the losers.
College Admin are the winners.
Teacher unions are winners.
Students won’t learn any marketable skills.
Student lose via fraud.

That’s a lot of multi-variable math!

[alloysteel]

For somebody to get something for nothing, then somebody else, somewhere, has to be getting very little or nothing for a great deal of actual cash.

Kind of an involuntary lottery, with the rules hidden in some arcane book of obscure regulations, and the participants never advised of the ratios of the payout to the amount expended.

Ponzi wold be so proud.

[grania]

Everybody loses. Think of all the students with borderline college potential and/or interest who will start "free" college. A lot of them would be more sensibly directed toward a trade or apprenticeship in manufacturing. Or to become assistants who can earn a living salary with a one or two year program, perhaps even manager training at a store or restaurant.

We all lose out if these people don't get trained for those fields. And they lose out if they start four-year college, but don't finish.....they'll have to pay it back.

[napscoordinator]

New York already gets federal money to run the schools. The difference between money they receive and the cost of the new program is the difference they need to come up with. Tuition itself is cheap. It’s everything else the explodes the cost of tuition. They still have to buy lodge, food, books and fees. Loans will still be huge. I think it’s only the first two years anyway.

[shanover]

Even some conservatives I know do not comprehend that NOTHING is ever free. We take for granted way to much.