Posted on 07/23/2019 7:22:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Americans are keen supporters of higher education and Washington has traditionally generously concurred. But, in the 2020 presidential Democratic primary, several prominent potential nominees have endorsed once-unimaginable levels of government aid for college students. Elizabeth Warren, for example, recently announced that if elected she would spend $1.5 trillion (raised by higher taxes on the very rich) to eliminate up to $50,000 in student loan debt for those in household with incomes below $100,000 with smaller cancellations for households earning less than $250,000. Her plan would also abolish tuition at all public colleges while offering government grants for non-tuition expenses. Meanwhile, $50 billion fund would help financially struggling historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).
Some 42 million Americans would benefit, especially 75% of those with federal government-funded college debt. Washington would also encourage non-government debtholders to further eliminate student debt. What’s more, her plan would require an “annual equity audit” to ensure that low-income and students of color were proportionately represented in both admission and graduation.
Warren’s plan ostensibly helps poorer students and minorities climb up the economic ladder into well-paying middle-class jobs, but left unsaid is that college professors and administrators would appear to be even greater beneficiaries. After all, cancelling student debt and free tuition at public colleges may help millions of American youngsters obtain diplomas and be debt-free, but the parchment hardly guarantees a good job. By contrast, opening floodgates to BA seekers via government subsidies will, it would seem, create yet more academic jobs.
Alas, matters are more complicated and though Warren’s plan (and others like it) is unlikely to come into being, it is worthwhile to ask if such huge subsidies have any merit. As we shall see, over and above possibly squandering the $1.5 trillion, her plan may produce the opposite of what it intends,
SORRY, FORGOT THE LINK TO THE ARTICLE. HERE IT IS:
‘The Republic will survive until the People realize that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.’
As long as they put the people that set Medicare prices in charge professor salaries I will consider it.
Did you miss it? in return for “free,” the government gets control over admissions and graduation. Now you know why they want to give you “free” tuition. They never “give” something, without exacting a tribute in return.
If you think university staff and teachers are leftist now, just wait until they are all on the government payroll.
You think indoctrination is expensive now, just wait til it’s Free!!
Ten years brick and mortar Universities go the way of shopping malls and newspapers. Tenured faculty will go the way of Newspaper Guild employees.
The teachers and staff would be glad to teach with no pay. They are the ones promoting all of this socialist nonsense.
Now there’s the quote of the day. That would make a good bumper sticker.
Where’s the “Justice???”
Question THAT WILL NOT BE ASKED AT THE NEXT DEBATE:
“What about those who worked two jobs to pay off their debt? What about those who dropped out for a year or two, delaying careers, to pay tuition?What about those who scrimped and saved and finally paid off their debt just last month????”
“What “about a commercial showing a toddler happily playing suddenly being demanded to pay its thousands of dollars share of the national debt whereby the toddler breaks into screaming tears ?”
Excerpted from http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm
It’s worse than you think. I work at a private college. I was in a meeting with several professors. I mentioned the impact of “making college free” to private institutes. A significant number will close. Why pay for something when it’s free somewhere else? They advocate a tiered system, whereby the government runs the public college system, and it becomes an extension of K-12. Outcomes based, teach to the test (which you know the government will insist on, to prove outcomes), and generally useless. Those “worthy” will be willing to pay for a private education that isn’t a diploma mill. Thus, creating a tiered society of elites, who can afford to pay, and the masses who can’t. Their plan is to have the elites run the country and dictate to the masses what’s best for them (in their opinion). Nigeria already has this type of system. Just look how well that’s working.
My email friend, the Nigerian prince, made so much money after getting his degree he needs help moving it!
If you send him your routing number and account information, he’ll share his largesse with you. Guaranteed.
Of course, you realize you’re asking a question of a United States Senator from Massachusetts, no less. It’s as if you think honesty, integrity, fairness… justice…? is even part of the equation. I’m going to go out on a limb here and presume you’re not a member of a protected class, or something down those lines.
Whatever you do, do not hold your breath waiting for her to give an answer to your liking!
Okay...where do you believe their paychecks come from now?
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