[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.

[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.

[bgill]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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

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