Obama’s Community College scam highlights a major problem with the welfare state that as consistently occurred in out socialist states and one which we are seeing become increasingly prevalent in the United States.
In a welfare state, the original goal of covering the needs of the poor and needy are quickly overwhelmed with the wants of lazy and greedy and so politicians respond by pounding more and more government money down the bottomless fiscal black hole of welfare spending .
As welfare spending overwhelms the budget, it drains away the money previously spent on the traditional responsibilities of government such as maintaining road, highways, bridges, water and sewer infrastructure, public buildings and other expensive to maintain public infrastructure .
Welfare spending also guts spending on civic projects such as state government subsidized free or low cost Community College and University.
In the state I grew up education was a priority and Community College tuition was free for those needed it and tuition for the states 4 year Universities was so highly subsidized that it cost about a quarter of what it does today in inflation adjusted dollars.
Now, due to massive social spending, our college system is no longer as well subsidized and as a consequence our Community College system tuition costs are no longer free but are comparable in costs to what the tuition used to be for the four year Universities.
Tuition costs for the four year schools has just about quadrupled in inflation adjusted dollars as Social Welfare spending has gutted the state budget of funds previously used to subsidize the costs of tuition payments of in state resident students.
The money once spent of subsidized higher education is now being spent on a fraud ridden welfare spending system sees welfare recipients receiving multiple welfare payments under multiple fraudulent identities.
The roads are not in nearly in as good of condition as they use to be either.
Interesting history and correlation of social service spending vs. education. I never thought of it that way.
IMO, Obama is spending in all areas excessively, in order to collapse the system (Cloward-Pivan). Seems every day there is something new that pushes that agenda forward at light speed.