Obama to pump money into community colleges ($12 BILLION)

Fox ^ | 7/14/09 | staff

[pissant]

This afternoon in Michigan, President Obama will announce a new $12 billion, ten-year initiative to improve the nation's community college success and graduation rate. That hefty price tag is sure to stoke some anger on the Hill.

Deputy Undersecretary of Education Bob Shireman explains the financing this way, "This would be fiscal year [20]10 money and, assuming that congress does this in the reconciliation bill that will be considered over the next few months, it would be in the first six months of next calendar year."

Shireman adds, "Our hope is to include it in a balanced piece of legislation that eliminates waste in the student loan programs, increases Pell Grant funding and reduces the deficit."

With this money, President Obama hopes to reach a new goal of 5 million additional community college graduates by the year 2020. This would further his oft-stated goal of the US leading the world in proportion of citizens with college degrees by the same year.

[pissant]

No worries, he'll have $12B to pay for this boondoggle by canceling the F-22 and Missile Defenses

[stevecmd]

Let’e have Ras run that survey now!

[DoughtyOne]

If most community colleges are like ours, he has a bundle of brain dead liberal diciples in each of them.


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[madinmadtown]

It seems that under Obama’s plan for our country, everyone will just go to school forever and never work. No production, no industry, no tangible means of survival. Education will be our only enterprise. His years of academics has given him a true ivory tower perspective...and solution to all our problems.

[Tenniel2]

Community colleges, or Obama National Security Force recruiting and training centers?

[Plutarch]

What interest group is this, exactly? Are CC ‘professors’ unionized?

[kjo]

Why would anybody on the hill care? They just have to run the printing press a little longer next week.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: “There is no problem so intractable that it cannot be solved by spending someone else’s money.”

[roses of sharon]

http://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2009/07/14/senate-obsolete/

Is the U.S. Senate Obsolete?

by Robert Nelson on July 14, 2009

in Economic Policy, Federalism, Public Finance, Social Policy, Tax and Budget

Syndicated columnist Neal Pierce has been writing about state and local affairs since at lease the 1970s. In a recent column, he asks, “Are State Governments Obsolete?” It might have been more appropriate to ask whether state governments actually exist — at least in the traditional constitutional sense. Blessed by the Supreme Court and other judicial rulings, state governments have become administrative appendages of the federal government.

In one area after another in the twentieth century — matters of transportation, public health, land use control, education, wildlife management, etc. — the federal government assumed powers that had traditionally been reserved to the states. States might still have an administrative role, but they are now working under a very tight federal leash.

[Reagan69]

No one has to approve that? Unbelievable !

[Celerity]

To all:

I work with a chapter of the AFLCIO. I know exactly how dangerous this can be.

The things I’ve seen may require my own Vanity thread - But I can sum it up tidily:

The money buys doctrine.

The AFLCIO does very little with labor claims, contract negotiation or employee relations. The office, once used to organize blue-collar benefits and pay, is now solely used to bring under-educated youngsters (20 or so years of age) in off the streets, give them donuts, and teach them what to say, how to hold a sign and where to intimidate people. They are taught that when they are met with rhetort or counter-argument, to (literally!) yell louder and call the objector names.

This will now be the core of these schools. This money will buy the new books, pay the new teachers, sever the troublesome teachers and indoctrinate a new generation of brain-washed kids.

I promise you this.

[jeffc]

My school, Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, FL is already packed to the gills. They need more parking, but I know they won't do it, even if they get "stimulus" $$. Why?

1) They're too busy building a new Performing Arts Center, which will actually reduce the number of parking spaces! Now, why in the world would we need more actors? I'm still waiting to get in to the CVT program (over 200 applicants for 80 seats last sememster, I heard). Do we need more actors or medical people in America?

2) The school makes money on parking tickets. Yeah, they ticket you for trying to squeeze your car into a space that is not really a space, otherwise you have to park almost a mile away.

Maybe if they would pay the instructors more, there would be more instructors, and therefore more classes.

[Celerity]

Also, tattooed and pierced youth is encouraged - the more threatening the appearances of them, the more they are targetted into older communities, and kept away from the military areas. They are literally used to scare away objectors.

As a young and pierced individual, I’ve been confused for these “off the streeters” many times, and given instruction. (Of course I don’t do, I am (irony time) a contract employee working for them. They couldn’t find anyone in the union who does the quality of work that I do.. I’ve been asked to keep that under my hat)

[roses of sharon]

The author address that on the PDF, page 3, “Rethinking the Constitution”. (addressing the unconstitutional fed institutions/laws/policies created by progressives anyway)

Very interesting, just thought some here might want to read it when they have time.

[bgill]

The elite of his voter base can’t make it out of community colleges and into full four year colleges?

[Osage Orange]

Maybe if they would pay the instructors more, there would be more instructors, and therefore more classes.

ROFLOL!!!!!!!!

BTW, what's a CVT?

[airplaneguy]

Im a strong conservative and i go to a CC for Culinary Arts School. Most of the Executive Chef instructors are also quite conservative as they have all worked in Industry and the curriculum is anything but a liberal experiment love fest. Some of the other programs are not hate america liberal brainwashing either. I suspect the Poli Sci department is likely full of mindless drones though.

[SunkenCiv]

hopes to reach a new goal of 5 million additional community college graduates

...costing a mere $2000 a head. Yeah right.

[jeffc]

CardioVascular Technology. The program I'm trying to get in is very competitive: Pre-med Cardiology.

[Osage Orange]

Thanks...

Never heard of that....

And I am in the health care field....

Thanks again.....