Posted on 08/24/2017 5:51:52 AM PDT by oh8eleven
Oregon became one of the first states to make tuition free for new students at community colleges last year, but the cash-strapped state can't fully fund the program this fall. Now some students won't be able to participate.
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Free while supplies last!
College was free in California when I was a kid.
Promise the liberal herds ANYTHING to get their votes. The lies are all about power and control.
Free sh!t costs money!
Sucks when ya can’t print it, eh, Oregon?
How are you gonna explain this to all your freeloaders?
There are only four groups in OR left for them to tap.
Home owners
Intel and its employees
Nike and its employees
Private companies
I expect all four to get targeted by Socialist Oregon in its drive to give free everything to those who want it.
The insurmountable problem that redistributionists have is capitalism produces all the things they wish to redistribute.
Redistributionism/socialism/communism produces nothing that can be redistributed other than misery and despair.
If it’s limited by income, how can it be free?
Free means free to anyone.
If it’s “free” to people based on income, then it’s just vote-buying.
I labeled Oregon, Oregone about a decade ago.
In those 10 years, the facist/communists in charge of Oregone have basically destroyed a beautiful state with their everything is free if you are a liberal.
New York’s state university system didn’t charge tuition when I was a student, but there was room/board/books/fees to be paid. Still, a deal.
I thought I remembered that.
In the words attributed to Margaret Thatcher, “”The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money [to spend].”.
I learned at an early age that the secret to success is to “under promise, and over deliver”. Democrats have it exactly backwards. They over-promise, and under-deliver.
Thus, their many social failures, and slow, steady, demise.
The insurmountable problem that redistributionists have is capitalism produces all the things they wish to redistribute.
Redistributionism/socialism/communism produces nothing that can be redistributed other than misery and despair.
Or somesuch... LOL!!!
I am sure if they raised taxes high enough they could fund “free”... :-)
Community college used to be free in Arizona and the Universities were very inexpensive.
The theory was to make college as cheap as possible to allow as many qualified students to attend as possible , but to make it as academically difficult in order to to weed out students who were not qualified or serious.
The system worked well.
Now all the money that used to go to things like subsidized low cost education, infrastructure building and repair and community development, is going to support the idle layabouts in the welfare system.
Students are now paying much higher prices for education because the high cost of socialism crowds out other spending priorities
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The difference was everyone knew it was paid for by taxes, it was only for Community College, you and your parents had to be citizens, and lastly there was no expectations that every student must go to college because people were taught that the world needed more tradesmen and ditch diggers than ancient LBGT art history majors.
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