Posted on 08/01/2016 12:40:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This might be an idea whose time has come: Nearly two-thirds of Americans are in favor of free college for everyone, and about three-quarters think at least some people should be eligible for free college, a new survey shows.
As the labor market increasingly benefits the better educated, and as college education and earnings potential become more tightly linked, people are coming around to an idea that seemed radical until very recently.
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders touted the idea as a central plank of his primary platform, and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton recently announced her own version, which includes a household income cap of $85,000 that rises to $125,000 in the future, while Republican nominee Donald Trump has not released a detailed plan to address tuition costs....
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What these fools don’t realize is that they’ll actually be paying for all of this FreeSh!t, through to their golden years.
Then colleges should be like Roach Motels. Everyone gets in but fewer get out.
2/3 of Americans would probably approve of everybody getting a check in the mail for $50,000 too. It does not means we should do it.
The saying goes like this.....
“A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for supper.”
“Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the results.”
Brilliant analogy!
Public College tuition is pretty cheap - it’s the fees that are the biggest expense.
Bernie barking for free tuition is disingenuous to his minions, as if it will miraculously solve all ills.
Most state university tuition in my area are less than $1000 a semester, it’s the fees that go into the multi-thousands.
Progressives aren’t screaming for Free-Fees. That’s their bread-and-butter.
“In the old days you could work your way thru school and be debt free on graduation. That isn’t possible any more.”
That may, or may not, be true. When I started college (1964) many of my peers and I were willing to “paygo,” to borrow a recent political term.
We worked full time and attended college part time or worked part time and attended college full time. One could work full time for a year and take the year off from classes. There was no law that one had to attend college full time and continuously until the degree was completed. But now there is that whole immediate gratification thing...
“Nothing is free! Just another way to keep as many Americans hostage to leftist indoctrination as possible — with the added bonus of further soaking the rich”
Generally not in favor of soaking the rich but since the rich are destroying our borders, funding leftist media , building left wing foundations and spending the countries money since the seem to have their taxes lowered over the past 30 years since it is obvious the rest of us have no say in anything I am now very much in favor of soaking them until things change. Nobody here can deny that rich liberals should pay taxes and even a lot more taxes but given the fecklessness, treachery and duplicity of the Republican country class they are just as deserving of paying them as their Democrat friends.
Bankrate.com provides no data on how their survey was conducted. Until shown otherwise, I’ll have to assume it was a self-selection operation on a website visited by borrowers. They’d prefer free money — who’da thunk it?
They forgot to ask: Are you willing to pay for someone else’s tuition every year for the rest of your life, whether or not the others are serious students, studying courses likely to result in employment/tax-paying, etc.?
And free porn too. Don’t forget the porn.
They probably should be getting their college education for free, because 90%+ are sure as heck not learning anything useful, and are ending up with useless degrees and a lot of debt.
Why don’t you throw in a free trip to Tahiti while your at it, and don’t forget the free French lessons!
I call B S on the poll results reflecting any accuracy.
If you consider that close to 50% of people (maybe more now?) rely on some type of entitlement program or welfare benefit, then those 50% probably do think college should be free. Then throw in half or more of those who are actually IN college and those who are in high school, and you might be approaching two-thirds.
Pretty scary.
Nope.
No kidding. The colleges will know how to do this. Keep tuition relatively low, so those getting it for free are getting less for free. Then boost Room and Board, Activities Fees, Lab Fees, Registration Fees,......... Have the "free" part be lecture halls with hundreds of "students" with options like classroom education extra.
This will turn public colleges and universities into cesspools. Any attempts to keep up standards will be met with whining about "diversity". Freshman classes will be total zoos, filled with students hanging out because it's free. Free means there's no need to get high enough grades to maintain scholarships, etc.
Besides all that, it will increase the problem that we're becoming a nation of perpetual children. Young adults will be able to hang around and accomplish nothing for a few more years.
FREE MY ASS!!!
I support free gun zones.
Come into the zone, get a gun free.
Now, the fees...the fees were a killer...
Well, I certainly support lower tuition and the implementation of Web learnin’ for those subjects where it is appropriate. Free is probably too low to promote students to be able to appreciate the boost to education that they are getting. $60/credit hr sounds like a good upper bound.
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