Posted on 01/14/2015 10:34:35 PM PST by Rummyfan
I gather from Obama's "free" community college proposal that his plan for dealing with the Republican Congress over the next two years is to throw out ridiculously expensive ideas no one has ever heard of before, and then denounce Republicans for being naysayers.
Community college is already incredibly inexpensive. The only thing that will jack up the price is making it "free." How about a big federal program to provide every American with free toilet paper? Coincidentally, that's about all most college degrees are good for these days.
Obama's moronic proposal has presented the GOP with a fantastic opportunity. Since he brought it up, how about Republicans get to the bottom of why college is so expensive?
The cost of a college education has increased by more than 1,000 percent only since 1978. Nothing else has gone up that much -- not health care, consumer goods or home prices. The explosion in college tuition bears no relation to anything happening in the economy.
Would anyone argue that colleges are providing a better education today than in 1978? I promise you: People coming out of college in the '50s knew more than any recent Yale graduate -- unless we're only counting knowledge of sexual practices once considered verboten.
They're teaching gender studies, ethnic studies, moral equivalence and hatred of America. Did the Japanese Really Start World War II or Did We? It's worse than not reading
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
I think Ann Coulter just did with her "...If the government hiked college loans and subsidies by $1 million per student, colleges would promptly raise tuition to: [current tuition] plus $1 million..." quote...
I call it “Big Education”.
US universities are mostly a joke. Meanwhile, other countries take education seriously and are beating the hell out of the USA.
leakinInTheBlueSea wrote: "No loss though, can’t do much with a Chicano Studies major anyway."
The current 'community organizer'-in-chief demonstrates how much damage can be done by 'educating'/manipulating/brainwashing each generation of voters when fellow - well paid community organizers/educators/brainwashers - are, as Coulter stated:
"... teaching gender studies, ethnic studies, moral equivalence and hatred of America. Did the Japanese Really Start World War II or Did We?"
Do you honestly believe Obama would have been elected, not once, but twice without these invented institutionalized propaganda 'grievance industry' diplomas/degrees?
This argument is yet another manifestation of "If you vote for me I will give you free ice cream."
Works every time in grade school. Has our population been dumbed down enough for this to continue to work?
From the same Eisenhower speech, but, oddly, hardly ever quoted:
"In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded."
While we're at it, I want my free auto - same conditions, let's hear GM and the rest of the auto makers jump on THAT bandwagon.
For later
She's on a roll...
Let me repeat that...University president's private jet.
Private jets cost $3 million to $90 million bucks and depending on size between $700,000 to $4 million per year to operate.
I was told by my state representative that part of the student’s tuition goes into the states general fund. Much of that fund pays for healthcare for illegal aliens.
Families with food stamps should have to pay stamps to school cafeterias!...but they get more "free" food!
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