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Democrats Introduce Resolution Calling For Debt-Free Public College
Huffington Post ^ | April 21, 2015 | Sam Levine

Posted on 04/21/2015 3:31:03 PM PDT by Zakeet

A group of congressional Democrats introduced a resolution on Tuesday seeking to ensure that students who attend public colleges and universities can graduate without debt.

The Senate resolution was introduced by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), while Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) introduced the House version.

The lawmakers support plans to increase financial aid, help states lower tuition and make it possible for students to earn degrees in less time.

In a statement, they noted that the cost of college has increased by 300 percent over the last 30 years and that when students graduate with debt, it has negative effects on the economy.

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On Tuesday, Warren called that debt "crushing."

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: college; education; freestuff; socialism; spending
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We have-um heap good idea ... we make-em school no cost wampum ... white man pay-em somehow ... papoose learn-em about environment and libtard studies ... no need-em get job ever ... vote-em Democrat for life!

1 posted on 04/21/2015 3:31:03 PM PDT by Zakeet
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Gimme dat...


2 posted on 04/21/2015 3:31:51 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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If it was good enough for the national socialists of Germany, its good enough for our national socialists.


3 posted on 04/21/2015 3:34:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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lol. NO. ITS A GREAT IDEA!!!
Everyone under 107 years old should get to go for free and get PAID if they take Afrocentric, hairstyle oriented, privilege examining, multigender, multi color, studies, with a minor studying the effect that EVERY part of our ecosystem has on the future of EVERY SINGLE species of plant and animal. .
Oh. And how to kill whitey


4 posted on 04/21/2015 3:34:33 PM PDT by dp0622
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Free tuition for Transgender African-American studies! With a minor in horticulture!


5 posted on 04/21/2015 3:35:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (ANYBODY BUT FRICKING JEB AND HILLARY)
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How about we make online college free, and give people degrees for little of nothing? I think cutting the financial throats of all those left wing University propaganda spreaders would yield benefits far beyond just a better education for young people. (Which it would do also.)

We need to sever the connection between Government money and academia. We also need to let market forces destroy that cadre of left wing agents. For those people who can learn with online videos, they should be able to receive credit.

This isn't rocket science. We can crank out diplomas with more efficiency and we don't have to pay left wing cranks who hate us!

6 posted on 04/21/2015 3:36:01 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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Let’s take from taxpayers and pay for a good liberal indoctrination at the “gubmint center for for getting your mind right”.


7 posted on 04/21/2015 3:37:07 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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The three areas with the highest rate of inflation are education, housing, and health care.

The three areas with the most government interference are education, housing, and health care.

The obvious solution to too much government is more government. It’s so obvious! /s


8 posted on 04/21/2015 3:38:04 PM PDT by Velvet_Jones
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They should just issue everyone a doctorate degree at birth.


9 posted on 04/21/2015 3:40:28 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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The fastest way to lower college costs is to drastically cut the number of college administrators and to drastically cut the salaries of faculty. Yes, I am all for reduced or free tuition.


10 posted on 04/21/2015 3:48:52 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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Such a college already exists. It is called College of the Ozarks. All of the students work in a job related to their field instead of paying tuition. Almost 100% of their graduates get multiple job offers.

And, as you might guess, they don't employ useless leftwing professors teaching __xyz___ Studies or other fluff courses.

11 posted on 04/21/2015 3:49:38 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Democrats Introduce Resolution Calling For Debt-Free Public College

Free college.

The degree will be worth 1/100th of what is paid for it.

12 posted on 04/21/2015 3:51:19 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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Have to change the signs


13 posted on 04/21/2015 3:55:59 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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There’s also the college in Berea, KY


14 posted on 04/21/2015 3:59:43 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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Sure, why not? Since the Dems FAIL at indoctrinating all kids from K-12 they need 4-5 more years to truly get their brains “right”.

I hate liberals. I really wish they’d all drop dead and rot in hell and take a few GOPe aholes with them.


15 posted on 04/21/2015 4:02:46 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Republican elites are as useless as bacteria in a flea's butt!!)
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So what is stopping the Democrats from creating their own colleges along the same model?

Other than the fact that their professors and devotees aren't interest in working?

16 posted on 04/21/2015 4:05:28 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Thank you for referencing that article Zakeet. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Democrats Introduce Resolution Calling For Debt-Free Public College"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

This is another 17th Amendment-related issue. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

And the Founding States had expected federal senators uniquely elected by state lawmakers to protect the interests of their states in Congress by killing unconstitutional House appropriations bills.

In this example however, corrupt members of the House are evidently trying to win votes from low-information, voting age students by relying on popularly elected senators who also want to win votes from low-information students. And these Constitution-ignoring senators are working in cahoots with crook representatives to buy votes from students using stolen state revenues.

The problem is that voting age students go back to their dormitories after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, oblivious to the major problem that their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills in order to use stolen state revenues to buy votes from students.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.

17 posted on 04/21/2015 4:14:04 PM PDT by Amendment10
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This has one purpose: to make Republicans look like the bad guy.


18 posted on 04/21/2015 4:18:42 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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Gibsme my tuition money paid in full back.


19 posted on 04/21/2015 4:19:40 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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It will be just like my debt-free, inexpensive Obamacare!


20 posted on 04/21/2015 4:19:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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