Posted on 02/22/2016 8:57:26 AM PST by Impala64ssa
A cornerstone of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's campaign is "free college tuition" for all. At least one college student in the country thinks it’s a bad idea — and she wants you to know why:
Nothing worth having comes easy.
Jordan Morgan, a 20-year-old student, wife and mother, also understands this reality:
When you get down to it… is anything actually free?
Writing for Odyssey, she said the concept of "free" anything holds great implications. Here are excerpts from her article:
Something that has weighed heavily on my mind is the fact that most millennials are hoping, and voting, for free college tuition. What does free college tuition actually do for society as a whole, and not just for the individual?
It may make a student debt free, but free tuition as a whole could "cost the United States $70 billion per year", according to Fox News. If you aren’t paying for your classes, then who is? Where is that $70 billion coming from? Taxpayers.
She's concerned about the impact on the value of a college degree:
If college becomes free, that means more people going to college. […] If more people go to college, the value of a college degree will decrease. […] What will the value of a degree be when even more people have it? It is simply the law of supply and demand.
Students would get a free bachelor's degree, but in order to set themselves apart, they would need to continue on with graduate school. […] How would free college help the societal issue we are already facing of students graduating only to discover they have to do more school?
She also thinks it would influence how hard students work:
College is hard work. You work hard in college because it is important to you. You work hard because it isn’t free. If college were free, students would become nonchalant about their work and their grades. […]
I mean, when you break those cheap sunglasses, you don’t stress because you can just go get some other ones.
Jordan says free college would impact both employees and employers:
In the end, who do you think would be the better employee or boss, someone who worked hard and is proud of what they did, or someone that had it handed to them?
As the old saying goes, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch." 20-year-old Jordan Morgan already has that figured out.
“from liberals or socialists, (same thing),”
The words, “democrat”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “progressive”, “socialist”, “communist” and “totalitarian” have become synonyms.
His idea I’ll bet would be $20,000 a year for a single person.
You get what you pay for.
This is the only thing I agree on with Bernie.
If you didn/t pay for it someone else did.
I wonder if has occurred to any of them that they have to pay for the next crop of free loaders once they get out of school. Or are they just counting on "the rich" to keep bending over.
CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY
The Social Democratic Party is striving for the abolition of the educational privileges of the propertied classes.
Education, schooling, and research are public matters; their operation is to be secured through public institutions and the expenditure of public funds. The provision of instruction and instructional materials free of charge. Economic support for pupils and students.
The public institutions of education, schooling, culture and research are secular. All legally grounded interference in these institutions by churches and religious or ideological communities is to be opposed. Separation of church and state. Separation of church and schools. Secular technical and occupational schools and institutions of higher education. No expenditure of public monies for ecclesiastical or religious purposes.
The unified structuring of the school system. The creation of the closest possible relations between practical and intellectual labor on all levels.
The common education of both sexes by both sexes.
Standardized training of teachers in colleges and universities. [...]
Program of SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SPD)
Accepted at the Heidelberg Sozialdemokratische Partei Congress on September 18, 1925.
“CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY”
Thank you for the back-up! ;-)
Oh, and I forgot to add “RINO” to my list of synonyms.
Things that are free have no value!
For a long time now, I’ve had this method for determining
IF anyone is going to give me anything FREE. I get butt
nekkid, stand in front of a full length mirror, let my
belly relax & pooch out. - I then look in the mirror and
ask myself, “Twinkie, is anybody going to give THAT
anything FREE?” - I then answer, “NO!”, eat another
cookie (NO TWINKIES!), and live in Realville.
I wasn’t trying to sound disparaging of the young lady...sorry if it sounded that way. Sounds like she’s one of the strong ones, and her head is screwed on correctly.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
Bernie, too, would have to disagree with the proposition of the statement.
“I got my degree in anthropamorphic cistransgenderism for free and I STILL can’t get a job”
Just wait until those particiation trophy winning special snowflakes realize their masters in Ubangi transgender studies, Aztec lesbian drum beating or whatever irrelevancies they’re currently pursuing wouldn’t qualify them to operate a french fry machine at McDonalds even at minimun wage. Then they’ll REALLY have something to bitch about.
But they will get government jobs.
I’m teachinig this basic stuff to my children who are in 7th and 8th grade right now.
They will not be mindless zombies, I will not allow it. If they choose a different path than me, at least they will form and make an educated decision.
My buddy says if Bernie wins, he’s cashing in his son’s college fund and going on his dream hunting and fishing trip to Kamchatka.
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