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Hillary Clinton to propose $350 billion college affordability plan
AP ^ | Aug. 10, 2015 | Lisa Lerer

Posted on 08/10/2015 9:08:02 AM PDT by PROCON

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling for a “new college compact,” Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will unveil a $350 billion plan aimed at making college more affordable and reducing the crushing burden of student debt.

At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the state with the highest average student debt in the country, Clinton will propose steps to reduce the cost of four-year public schools, make two-year community colleges tuition-free and cut student loan interest rates, according to campaign aides.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; collegetuition; education; election2016; hillary2016; hillaryclinton; hitlery
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Predictably Hillary! trying to excite and garner the youth vote.

Don't think an old grandmother hag will excite the yutes.

1 posted on 08/10/2015 9:08:02 AM PDT by PROCON
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No way the College Cartel goes along with this plan...


2 posted on 08/10/2015 9:09:11 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: PROCON

And all the college’s will do is raise the tuition.


3 posted on 08/10/2015 9:09:27 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: PROCON

And she is getting the money - where??


4 posted on 08/10/2015 9:09:59 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: PROCON

Of course! Make it free.
Why didn’t anyone else ever think of


5 posted on 08/10/2015 9:13:13 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: PROCON

She has a flat-out student loan forgiveness proposal in her back pocket.

If behind next September she will roll it out.
It will make her unbeatable.


6 posted on 08/10/2015 9:13:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Hattie

Hold on to your wallets!!! This marxist, obese hag is after them. Why doesn’t this smelly degenerate take some of the $2,000,000,000 plus in her criminal foundation and give it to the students? Oh, by the way...why doesn’t this leftist freak pay her campaign “workers”?


7 posted on 08/10/2015 9:14:24 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Hattie

> And she is getting the money - where??

Where? Middle class slaves like you and I...


8 posted on 08/10/2015 9:16:35 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: PROCON

Rand Paul proposed affordability for collage students, but instead ? His plan would foot the bill to older Americans and burden them as tax right offs.

Hillary Clinton / Rand Paul 2016

Rand Paul as her VP running mate.


9 posted on 08/10/2015 9:16:44 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (Truth is a priceless commodity worth more it's weight than Gold, GOP plays with fools gold)
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Buying votes with our money. It’s what Democrats do best......................


10 posted on 08/10/2015 9:17:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Hattie

That is the $ 350 Billion question.


11 posted on 08/10/2015 9:17:46 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (Truth is a priceless commodity worth more it's weight than Gold, GOP plays with fools gold)
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To: Red Badger

More like bribing us with our own money.


12 posted on 08/10/2015 9:17:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Let’s make food more affordable also, and how about a car —that’s it, free cars for everyone also. A chicken in every pot.

How do we pay for this - obviously through higher taxes. Those rich people and corporations have too much money anyway /sarc.


13 posted on 08/10/2015 9:19:11 AM PDT by USNA74
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To: Buckeye McFrog

And if she offered free lifetime swisher sweets to the urban yutes, she could garner a lot of their votes.


14 posted on 08/10/2015 9:19:13 AM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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As if the colleges and universities aren’t already federally controlled enough, she’s going to make it impossible for any one of them to survive financially without agreeing to dumb-down and indoctrinate every single student into unthinking atheistic Marxist lemmings.


15 posted on 08/10/2015 9:19:15 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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...Clinton will propose steps to reduce the cost of four-year public schools, make two-year community colleges tuition-free and cut student loan interest rates, according to campaign aides.

No matter how you slice it, this is another tax-and-spend program. Hey, Hillary! If you're going to spend $350 billion more, then you need to offer a new tax that's going to raise that much revenue. Stop and think: That's over $1000 for every man, woman, and child in the US to fund a one-semester drinking binge for tens of thousands of non-serious students. Perhaps then people will sorta understand that there is no free lunch...anywhere. Serious students are willing to invest in themselves. Free tuition brings out everyone else.

16 posted on 08/10/2015 9:19:48 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: IC Ken
To make something more affordable, you stop throwing money at it. You remove money from it and let competition and quality bring market prices in line. No student government backed loans. No grants. No anything.

Stop filling the trough academia gorges on.

17 posted on 08/10/2015 9:20:31 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: PROCON

Clinton will have to promise all kinds of ‘free stuff’.

She saw that was how Santa Obama managed to win in 2008.


18 posted on 08/10/2015 9:21:53 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Buckeye McFrog

IIRC, Obama planned on ‘forgiving’ student loans for those who went into Government work. Not Kidding. He must have overlooked that idea recently.....or will bring it up before he is booted out. SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL THE MASSES FROM WHERE THE MONEY WILL COME..........IT WILL COME FROM THOSE WHO ARE WORKING HARD JUST TO MAKE ENDS MEET! These ideas need to see the complete light of day.....and these ideas are one reason those students cannot find jobs to pay back those student loans.


19 posted on 08/10/2015 9:22:49 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: dfwgator

.......or China’s money.................


20 posted on 08/10/2015 9:22:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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