Posted on 01/10/2015 1:02:48 PM PST by Kaslin
In case you haven’t heard, President Obama plans to make his latest and greatest idea public today—to grant a “free” community college education to every student who graduates from high school.
Well, the idea sounds nice, especially now, when college is unaffordable for many young people and requires taking out significant loans by those who do attend. But, is a “free” government program actually free or void of costs?
Of course not.
Remember when President Obama promised free healthcare to young people when he was touring college campuses at a whirlwind rate? Has that promise held water? The answer is no.
President Obama then switched his tune from promising free healthcare to promising lower premiums. Today, the facts are quite the opposite. A recent study shows that health insurance premiums have drastically skyrocketed among 23-year-olds, especially males, who have seen a 78% price increase. Women have seen close to a 45% increase. Many Americans—especially our nation’s young people—are suffering as a result of this atrocious law.
This administration has a serious spending problem and promises the world to our nation’s young people, with the goal of creating a permanent dependent class out of millennials. But, guess what? Sixty percent of millennials believe that the federal government is too big and spends too much. Policies that are meant to “help” young people actually hurt them in the long run.
Who is responsible for paying off the national debt? Millennials. Currently, each person’s share of the national debt is $58,437—and it will only increase as programs like “free” college continue to come to fruition.
The President knows that he has lost momentum with young people. Offering “free” community college tuition to everyone, however, only appears to be a desperate attempt to win back young people for the future benefit of his leftist causes and colleagues. But young people don’t want government handouts. What young people want and need is the freedom to work hard and succeed. They need independence from the federal government—not reliance upon it. Free market approaches can and should be taken to make college more affordable, but is a “free” community college education—on the shoulders of taxpayers—the answer?
So, today when President Obama makes his glorious announcement that young people should be able to now attend community college for “free”—let’s remember the wise words of Milton Friedman, “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
I would point this out....generally, depending on what state you live in....community college for one year will run roughly $1,500 to $2,000. You live at home or do it while working full-time. The community college has no upper-level professors or instructors....so they aren’t saddled with outrageous yearly salary. No sports program, and no housing program.
I caught a Wall Street Journal item this week....talking about this kid who went through the CC-system, graduated with a degree in welding, and at the age of twenty-four....is making $130,000 a year. There are various ways that Community College is a better deal than a four-year university, and probably half the kids in the four-year method....are wasting time and money on a degree that simply won’t pay itself back.
LOL-—good one. Ill have to steal it.
A “formal” education is NOT “free”, someone pays for it, perhaps not the recipient but the tax payers. Coincidentally, a “street education” is often times paid for by the tax payers as well but in many different ways.
Just what we need, more millions of “college graduates” who don’t have what used to be an eighth grade public school education. They come out now with a major in history and don’t recognize the terms Battle of Hastings, Magna Charta or even American Revolution. It used to be said that a history major was only good if you planned to teach history but apparently it is useless for that now. Inflation is rampant in everything, a twenty dollar bill now buys about as much food as a one used to buy and a bachelor degree is equivalent to an old time sixth grade education at best. The worst part is that the students graduating have been so misled and undereducated that they believe they really are the, “Most educated generation in history” even though they don’t know the difference between your and you’re and don’t have a clue about pronoun usage.
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