True dat! And to think that people believe that an ER visit is overpriced!
Posted on 08/10/2015 9:08:02 AM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling for a “new college compact,” Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will unveil a $350 billion plan aimed at making college more affordable and reducing the crushing burden of student debt.
At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the state with the highest average student debt in the country, Clinton will propose steps to reduce the cost of four-year public schools, make two-year community colleges tuition-free and cut student loan interest rates, according to campaign aides.
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“Hillary Clinton to propose $350 billion college affordability plan”
Only to a liberal does spending 350 billion equal “affordability”
Recall the AFFORDABLE care act. What has been made affordable through that?
Perhaps her foundation will pick up the tab!
I think the system in France has changed in the past 20 years, but when I briefly taught at a state-funded university there in the mid-1990s, tuition was free. The job market graduating students faced was awful and, with free tuition, there was no motivation for most students to take their studies seriously.
Yup. And I fully expect her to do that.
Millenials will be crawling over broken glass to vote to forgive their own student loans.
Everyone should call this what it is — a sop to the University Administrators and Professors so they can CONTINUE to charge exorbitant tuitions for useless classes. If we really wanted to lower costs, we would pull the plug on all subsidies and let the Higher Education Bubble burst. Sure, a bunch of colleges would go under and professors would lose their jobs, but that’s a good thing. What would remain would actually be useful.
These job boards like Monster and CareerBuilder are reportedly overrun with young French engineers, desperate to go anyplace else.
Only problem is a number of them end up here on H1B, and when the guy in the next cube learns they got their Masters Degree for FREE, he freaks out and wants the same from his government.
And interestingly enough, immediately after implementation college tuitions increased by 350 billion dollars
Try 850 billion dollars or more. After the feds got involved in student loans the cost of higher education ballooned far beyond what the taxpayer was dunned for, leading to the present-day situation where it is normal to leave college with six figures of debt.
Exactly!
True dat! And to think that people believe that an ER visit is overpriced!
there's a lot of forces at play here. Clinton is seemingly proposing "obamacare" for higher education.
- put the nation on government-subsidized, and controlled, tuitions
- apply heavy taxes elsewhere to supposedly "pay for it,"
- apply highly "progressive" tuitions means-testing for families (ie. upper middle class will pay through the nose),
- make universities co-conspirators and beneficiaries, just as health-care companies were in Obamacare, to get buy-in from the recipients of the cash and regulations
- As money is coming from the FEDS, expect controls and programs on everything from diversity quotas to rape-awareness to get the .gov money
- They will have 95% buy-in from progressive/secular college administrators
where does the money come from??? That’s right, it’s socialism - middle class workers will pay.
Hillary’s campaign:
1) Government Plans to redistribute wealth and make it sound like free stuff for the middle class. Instead, it’s bigger government, more fraud, more abuse, more criminality, higher taxes, less efficiency.
UGH, I am sooo sick of these progressive marxists.
That will allow tuitions to rise astronomically.
but student loan interest pays for ObamaCare.........
“new college compact” AKA cadre indoctrination funding
So, elect me!
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