He was one Liberal at least who was willing to put his OWN money where his mouth was.
Posted on 07/12/2019 11:15:34 AM PDT by bgill
I’ve nothing against Paul’s charitable activities to be sure.
But we must always remember that voluntary charity, like an economy rooted in voluntary commerce, is ultimately not where the Left for whom nothing remains of the old extreme Left is extreme to them anymore want to go. Even with the old Left charity was insufficient not because government welfare is sufficient but because supporting charity is voluntary, where supporting government welfare is forced.
I’d consider a different school!
I hate that for you.
I am wrapping up putting 3 through right now. 1 has already found employment. 2 more to go.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/12/26/university-texas-endowment-harvard/
The University of Texas is sitting on an endowment of $31,000,000,000.00.
That is enough money to pay the tuition of 476,923 families making $65,000.00.
476,923 families.
Total Endowments of all College and universities is:
$680,000,000,000.00
ENOUGH money to pay the tuition for 10,605,183 families making $65,000.
Trump needs to start attacking these institutions. They are LEFTIST, Elitist, and bankrupting a generation of families and students.
Well, good for Bernie. He is going to make college education great again. He will be the reason for the closures of so many colleges that with the few that can remain open, and not be financially closed, it will mean something to get a sheepskin from a university as so few will be handed out. So owning one will be such an oddity, it better have a chip in it. Nobody is going to believe you got one as they become endangered like the Do Do. And we all know what happened to that one.
rwood
Our kiddo’s randomly selected illegal alien roommate was there on a full ride.
Maybe all of UT’s middle eastern royalty kids will help offset the costs.
“....bankrupting a generation of families and students.”
What’s to worry. If you can’t raise the bridge, lower the river. Bernie want to forgive all educational loans. So there is no need for money at all. Why pay someone for a transaction when it will all be free and tax free anyway. Problem solved (for a little while).
rwood
Great. If they’ll add in living expenses and some monthly cash, I can go work on my Master’s.
Woohoo!!!
Universities get billions in free money for fake students. Sign up a fake student, get guarabteed money from the taxpayer. It does require a little bit of investment. Perhaps a couple of dorms to isolate them from the real students who dont want volume 11 crap music and parties at 2 AM. Perhaps a building to have elementary school level fake classes to reduce the chance of harrassment of the other students (especially blond girls). Perhaps some special graduation ceremonies to keep families proud of their children for becoming doctors or lawyers or engineers from having to witness the volume 12 hooting and hollaring and carrying on with the potential for brawls for people getting a degree for 3rd grade reading comprehension.
Not in any way saying all poor people are like this, but there are plenty of organizations and scholarships to help the self motivated. And perhaps perhaps college would not be so expensive if free money guaranteed by the government was not driven up by how much government is willing to pay. Also if they returned schools to a place of learning rather than a club med, perhaps students could return to being able to mostly self fund with a normal job again
What about fees? Building Use Fees were always higher than tuition when I went to the University.
Also, Texas has gotten so selective, these kids would almost certainly be Valedictorians from small schools anyway.
Why work for a living.
Stay in the basement and play video games until parents throw you out.
It’s about flooding UT with more Rat voters by 20. They will stop at nothing.
How much is out of state tuition?
Does this apply to illegals? I don’t see any restrictions on sex, age, or citizenship. And the money comes from the evil oil industry. How do the liberals deal with that?
Circa 1966 my household income was effectively zero. My grand parents who raised me were retired and lower middle class. I wanted to go to college. I got a job as a roughneck on the drilling rigs in the summer and paid for my college. I became a geologist and consultant drilling fluids engineer on the exploration rigs. I made a great deal of money until the oilfield collapsed in 1983 due to the fact we found to damn much oil. The price of oil tanked.
I sat around the house for six months and finally realized this game was over. I sold my house and airplane and went back to university and became a pharmacist. Fortunately it only took 2-1/2 years as I had all the chem, math, physics etc from my prior degree. I went to school year round and in 2-1/2 years was a pharmacist.
What a great nation we have that can allow one to do this.
Circa 1966 my household income was effectively zero. My grand parents who raised me were retired and lower middle class. I wanted to go to college. I got a job as a roughneck on the drilling rigs in the summer and paid for my college. I became a geologist and consultant drilling fluids engineer on the exploration rigs. I made a great deal of money until the oilfield collapsed in 1983 due to the fact we found to damn much oil. The price of oil tanked.
I sat around the house for six months and finally realized this game was over. I sold my house and airplane and went back to university and became a pharmacist. Fortunately it only took 2-1/2 years as I had all the chem, math, physics etc from my prior degree. I went to school year round and in 2-1/2 years was a pharmacist.
What a great nation we have that can allow one to do this.
Give give give, using other peoples’ tax dollars. Students are sent to overpriced liberal indoctrination higher education factories to twist their minds and we are supposed to pay for all of them? Not interested.
Funny story about Pell Grants. When I went back to school for me second degree (pharmacy) I was rather broke in my last year of pharmacy school. I went to the financial aid officer to ask about Pell Grants. I had a prior degree in Geology of which I paid for all myself, and had also accrued 30 hours of credits via Clep Tests. Those hours was what killed my Pell Grant as I had to many hours to qualify. He politely informed me that I did not qualify for a Pell Grant. I was rather incensed.
I told the man that because “I have busted my ass in work to get my first degree for which I paid for and then took CLEP tests to shorten time in university I am being punished for my efforts?” I also said that the Pell Program “seems to reward sloth and dependence.” He was actually a very nice man. He said, “You are correct.” He was just working within the restraints of an insane program.
I did get loans for my last year of pharmacy school of which I paid back early.
College is already free for most people.
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