An economist (an actual one) tried explaining that to Jeb, but this was his response:
Posted on 08/26/2015 4:05:58 PM PDT by hcmama
Jeb Bush has a fantastically awful idea when it comes to college education. He thinks community college students should get “free” tuition for two years. If that’s sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the exact same thing President Barack Obama proposed in January. Which shows how completely hypocritical Bush is because he came out against Obama’s plan in January. Oh, but Bush’s plan gets even more #headdesk inducing. He wants universities to PAY BACK students who don’t graduate in four years.
If kids can’t graduate with a four-year degree in four years, there ought to be some payback to their families or to them, or their got to be some support for the loans they’ve taken out.
This is so fiscally irresponsible and reprehensible, it’s not even funny. For one, it would cause major federal budget issues because the government has increasingly gotten involved in higher education over the last 50 years. Cato Institute wrote in 2009 how higher education federal spending hit $36.6B, not counting the $31.4B in research grants. College Raptor’s guide to financial aid shows the federal government covers 58% of student aid nationwide. This includes up to $5500 in Perkins Loans and up to $12,500 in Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans for undergrad students. This doesn’t count the Pell Grants or Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants available either. So it’s possible, Bush’s plan could end up making the federal government pay TWICE in both loans and the payback, because the universities sure aren’t going to use athletics fees to pay students back.
Jeb’s vote-winning idea for schools to pay students who don’t graduate in four years aside, please consider the following. Since Jeb has now flip-flopped his stance on education and agrees with Obama on that issue, both Jeb and Obama actually share Thomas Jefferson’s vision about “free” education, but with one major exception.
More specifically, since the states have never amended the Constitution to give the feds the specific power tax and spend for intrastate educational purposes, nether Obama or Jeb should be making statements concerning federal funding for such purposes without also talking about a new amendment to the Constitution for that purpose.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
At my daughter’s college graduation, the president read off the number of students each who graduated in 6, 5, and 4 years. The 4 year graduates were a small percentage. There are many reasons to take 5 or 6 years to graduate, none of which are the fault of the colleges.
¡Jeb! is bi-cultural....he’s half socialist, half commie.
I went to Junior College out of High School.
It was free. No tuition, had to buy books.
Why did we go so downhill that it ever had to cost?
Policywise, less and less diff between Yeb and Hill with each and every passing day.
A flailing campaign.
Ya know,,, They say the first-born is the smartest, and intelligence goes downhill after that,,,,, The “first born” wasn’t that smart! Sheesh!
Sure thing, Yebster.
you can fund the whole thing all by yourself.
A$$hole.
Same as H. Clinton. Free college for all. Her pitch has been all over the radio.
So, here, it is the college's job to get someone a degree in four years. What will happen? A whole new class of slacker, ignorant students will get meaningless four year degrees so the colleges won't have to pay penalties.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
An economist (an actual one) tried explaining that to Jeb, but this was his response:
I actually found one on here who said he would be a wonderful president and she would vote for him twice if possible.
I never met one of those before.
Just wait until he finds a way to make this case for the dream undoc illegals. They could take some college level indoct classes, under the guise of becoming assimilated -- and bailout in their last semester so we could pay for it all. Perhaps he should toss in a JEBphone to close the deal.
I wonder if the Koch brothers have asked for their money back yet. All those big donors have to be asking themselves “What the hell was I thinking? This guy is retarded.”
At this rate he is more likely to split the Democrat vote.
Out of touch, lib sympathizer. No idea of how to pay for this. Guess he will just print money like his brother did.
America knows better than giving away Obamaphones or Bushcollege freebies.
Florida: what in the world did this guy ever do to get elected there?
“At this rate he is more likely to split the Democrat vote.”
No, he can pull a ‘Crist’ and go for the Democrat nominee with Hillary in prison. Dems know Biden is a loser, but they will sure like hearing in Spanish Bush mouthing idiocy.
Jeb is a twit. The only people giving him money at this point are Democrats.
In The Hen Room apparently, the dumb cluck.
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