"Come on Bill, just put your head right here in my hands."
Posted on 02/06/2014 5:19:07 AM PST by dennisw
In an effort to find common ground, President Obama suggested that he and Bill O'Reilly both received a little help to make it through college. But Obama didn't realize he was talking to a rugged, bootstrap-pulling individualist who subsidized his education through his own blood, sweat and tears.
During the unedited portion of O'Reilly's Super Bowl Sunday interview, Obama explained that he has "not massively expanded the welfare state." The government's current support structure, Obama said, isn't all that different from "thirty years ago, forty years ago, fifty years ago."
"You and I took advantage of certain things. I don’t know about you, but I got some loans to go to college," Obama said.
But a self-described "self-reliance guy" like O'Reilly didn't need any government largess, thank you very much.
"Nah, I painted houses, I didn’t get any," O'Reilly responded. "See, that's who I am."
Obama was quick to say that he painted houses in the summer, too.
"It still wasn’t enough," he told O'Reilly.
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Obama in the debates....”I have a bracelet too.”
Oh, good memory!
It was around 2005 or 2006 when oil/gasoline prices started their climb up that BOR started his rant segments that only if the Feds mandated ethanol use that the US wouldn't need to import oil at all, just like Brazil (he said_).
And it was arrogant bloviating by him, as he calls it.
I even know Republicans here (in person) who believed him.
I immediately figured out that it wouldn't work, in fact there were good essays on the net explaining why it wouldn't work, and it turned out to be a disaster.
....and after that I didn't believe anything he said, couldn't stand him,.
Barack is incapable of opening a paint can.
I’d be surprised if Obama even rolled his own joints, much less if he ever touched a paint brush.
My dad worked over thirty years at the Ford plant and he and my mom saved for years to put my sister and me through college. When the time came they gave the same deal to each of us. They would pay 100% of the first year tuition and fees to any college we wanted, 75% of the second year, 50% of the third year, and 25% of the last. We were expected to work and save and fund the rest. My dad’s favorite expression, well one of them anyway, was that quote from Thomas Paine “What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly.” If they just paid our way he thought we’d not realize how important it was. By working and having to invest in our own education he thought we’d appreciate it more. And I have to say he was right. So through work, scholarships and grants, and my folks I didn’t have to get any student loans either.
O’Reilly is a big blow-hard.
Obama is such a tool that, even in hindsight, he can’t see that it is quite possible for many, if not most people to obtain a degree without loans. The main prerequisite is a stable home life. If the only help parents can provide a child is free room and board, it means a two year stint at community college followed by the cheapest state school with your major. With any luck, you can commute all four years. If not, you may have to take a gap year in between CC and state school to save some money. Is it Columbia? No, but, as 0 knows well, you never actually have to go to Columbia, you just need to say you did.
Yes he is. And I'm sure his old man paid for a chunk of his undergrad.
“It still wasn’t enough,” he told O’Reilly.
I guess it takes a lot of money to bribe school officials and teachers (perfessers). Good thing Obama had some rich Arab benefactor.
O’Reilly: I painted houses in the summer.
Obama:I painted houses in the summer, too.
O’Reilly: I flipped burgers in the evenings.
Obama: I flipped burgers in the evening too.
O’Reilly: I......
Obama: yeah, I did that too.......
"Come on Bill, just put your head right here in my hands."
In regards to point 2, have you noticed that the Left never complains about what colleges charge in tuition. They will hoot and holler over $1 charged at ATM machines, what a doctor charged to keep you on this side of the ground, the rent of an apartment in Manhattan, etc, etc. But colleges have raised a $16,000 tuition circa 1984 to $60,000 today and the Left never says a word. Do you think they don’t because it is they who are collecting the money.
For perspective, my daughter attends McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It’s is ranked in the top twenty of universities worldwide. Her tuition and room and board, all included, is $20,000. An in province student’s tuition is $8,000. Her other choice was Boston University, tuition $60,000.
Was Obama not smart enough and did he not have high enough grades to get scholarships? He's old enough so those options were still available.
I see this as a real issue. Maybe one reason Obama has no clue about the economy is that he couldn't even handle personal finance as a young adult. Maybe he's just plain dumb.
Not true for attending so called prestigious colleges. Ivy League, Johns Hopkins, etc, etc. Yes, if that student attended a less competitive college, but not if he wanted to attend a very competitive college. I had a GPA over 4, 1250 SATs from a HS that was ranked 3rd in our state in 1980. Guess what, to attend a very good college, I paid full freight.
Obama was the chief paint sniffer.
Government involvement, including the loan programs, is the primary reason that college tuition rates have skyrocketed. Multiple studies have shown that without the easy money through the government, loan and grants, tuition would be 25% of what it is today. College would actually be more affordable for most people.
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