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[Hillary] Clinton lauds free NY tuition plan as progressive first
North Country Public Radio ^ | The Associated Press

Posted on 04/13/2017 9:40:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Hillary Clinton says she hopes the free college tuition plan approved by New York state lawmakers last week will lead other states to follow suit.

The former Democratic presidential nominee rallied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City for a ceremonial bill signing of the scholarship for poor and middle class students....

(Excerpt) Read more at northcountrypublicradio.org ...


TOPICS: New York; Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: clinton; cuomo; education; hillary; newyork; tuition
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What do Jane & Joe Sixpack of college age get, other than the Privilege of paying for college kids tuition, while they work their lowly jobs?


21 posted on 04/13/2017 11:27:11 PM PDT by heights
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s amazing. The professors profess for free. The administrators administrate for free. The janitors janit for free. That is so cool. I guess the electrical supplier doesn’t charge for electricity either?


22 posted on 04/13/2017 11:51:09 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Free tuition”? No. Try “taxpayer-funded pay-offs to loyal Progressive Democrats in academia”.


23 posted on 04/13/2017 11:58:17 PM PDT by Junk Silver (Hey Bill and Hillary - don't worry about Sessions. Some animals are still more equal than others.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

I believe she is mother to Hubbell’s daughter, daughter being groomed to be next in clintoon dynasty


24 posted on 04/14/2017 12:06:47 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Junk Silver
taxpayer-funded pay-offs to loyal Progressive Democrats in academia

Yes. Academia's payback is providing another "educated" generation of cultural Marxists, who enter secondary and college education, economics, science, and psychology - self-generating yet another 50+ years of Frankfurt School critical theory destruction. Red states need to grasp this.

25 posted on 04/14/2017 1:10:58 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fortunately New York State will be running budget surplus forever. Ignore all rumors about rich baby boomers retiring and moving to warmer climes. Ignore all rumors about wealthy folks leaving the state for lower tax regions or countries.

Isn’t it fun being a Democratic “expert” like Hillary?

Just count your fingers and toes and then throw up your hands and say you don’t know anything about numbers larger than that!


26 posted on 04/14/2017 3:50:43 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This venture will cost billions and billions to continue and will fail very soon after it achieves maximum enrollment .


27 posted on 04/14/2017 3:57:22 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: mulligan
Pure stupidity..

Isn't the 10th Amendment great?

28 posted on 04/14/2017 4:04:12 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ironic - Kalifornia drew a lot of freeloaders by starting “free” tuition way back when and went down hill on a 50+ year slide. I guess NY thinks it needs to accelerate the downhill slide if it wants to ‘keep up”.


29 posted on 04/14/2017 4:08:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: realcleanguy

I like to be in Americaaa
Everything free in Americaaa


30 posted on 04/14/2017 4:47:10 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A couple of comments on this.

The SUNY system use to be very cheap or no tution for NY State residents. CUNY, the NYC college system was free until the 1970s financial crises. I don’t remember the details of the SUNY but there was a cost by 1979 when I was applying for college, but NYS also offered tuition assistance equal to your Pell grant. Although I applied to a SUNY school I went to a private U. where the Pell and NYS grants of $3,600 cover over half the cost. There were no strings attached to either program.

As to to this plan, it is not free on the front end or the back end. Taxpayers pick up the cost of this.

You have to work and pay taxes in NY for the same time frame you are taking money for or you have to pay it back. So if you are looking at a career that will take you out of NY, this program becomes a loan.

Unless this is managed like standard loan programs, I suspect NYS will see little repayment from people who leave NYS.

It nice to your free tution, but this is anything but.


31 posted on 04/14/2017 5:30:24 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: mowowie
If only the common liberal would realize how naive he/she is...

...then they would be conservatives, assuming they survived their heads exploding from such realization.

32 posted on 04/14/2017 5:37:53 AM PDT by doc11355
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great.... Now my college degree is worth even less.


33 posted on 04/14/2017 7:39:03 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And I’m sure it’s worth every penny.


34 posted on 04/14/2017 8:46:25 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Having driven through Chappaqua and surrounding towns in Westchester and Fairfield counties (Chappaqua’s about 10 minutes from Greenwhich,CT...one of the richest residential towns on earth) one would think that she'd also support a free Mercedes for all!
35 posted on 04/15/2017 3:39:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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