Posted on 12/08/2019 2:07:30 PM PST by karpov
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Tuesday proposed investing $100 billion in historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions, a broad proposal in a Democratic field that has offered varying plans to prop up this longstanding yet struggling arm of the educational system.
Many H.B.C.U.s, as historically black colleges and universities are commonly known, have faced widespread financial woes recently, with some schools losing accreditation and facing plummeting enrollment.
Mr. Bookers proposal comes at a precarious time for his presidential campaign: Despite crossing the 200,000 individual-donor threshold last month, he is still short four qualifying polls for the December debate and is in real danger of being left off the stage.
While many candidates, including Senators Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, of South Bend, Ind., have already rolled out proposals to invest billions into H.B.C.U.s, an anchor of Mr. Bookers proposal is dedicating at least $40 billion to those institutions for climate change research.
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Mr. Bookers plan also calls for an additional $30 billion in grants to expand and improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics known as STEM education at H.B.C.U.s and minority-serving institutions, and another $30 billion in grants to upgrade facilities and infrastructure at the schools.
H.B.C.U.s make our country stronger and more reflective of the diversity that makes us so great, Mr. Booker said in a statement announcing the proposal.
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My question is does Booker have $100 Billion in his own account?
Historically black colleges and similar institutions provided services denied by crap-houses, such as Harvard and Yale, for a hundred years. Now, most universities bend over backwards to accommodate Black students. The historical Black institutions are no longer necessary, but I salute their contributions to America.
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All that said, is this $100 million thrown down the toilet? It’s a good question.
Historically black colleges and similar institutions provided services denied by crap-houses, such as Harvard and Yale, for a hundred years. Now, most universities bend over backwards to accommodate Black students. The historical Black institutions are no longer necessary, but I salute their contributions to America.
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All that said, is this $100 million thrown down the toilet? It’s a good question.
Not 100 million
100 billion.
Payola to the black intellegensia
White priviledged crooked eye cory is buying the black vote
Pretty soon we’re talking about real money...
Bull**** headline. A bet is when you risk your own money.
“Cory Booker Bets $100 Billion on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
he’s betting his own money, right? (otherwise, he’s just giving away OPM) ...
Not one red cent to fund professors and radicals.
Yep...a trillion here, a trillion there...
This is the inherent problem with democracy. This country was founded as a REPUBLIC that, above all else, existed to protect PROPERTY RIGHTS. We need to return to that as soon as possible.
The Founders created Fedzilla, but tried to restrain it. They couldn’t. We probably can’t go back to the Articles of Confederation. But we can’t go on like this, either. Trump is only joking when he talks about sticking around after his second term. But the communist plotters might actually give him no choice.
This country took a bad turn during and after the Civil War. By the early 1900s, the “progressives” were firmly in charge and property was no longer safe.
People wring their hands over the “super rich.” But, in today’s dollars, the super rich of the 19th century were many times richer. We had no “social programs,” no Federal Reserve and virtually no federal regulations on the use of property or employee/employer relationships. The result: Fast economic growth, innovation and lots of jobs.
The fact that $100 billion (in current dollars) is now considered to be a vast fortune is just one example of how debased and over-taxed our nation has become. Taxes on the rich were a plot to limit capital formation in the private sector and empower the government. And it has worked, much to the detriment of our greatness.
I don’t think even Trump can defeat 100+ years of communist treachery in just 8 years. I also cannot imagine how he could leave until the job is done. The conservative cause has to start imagining radical solutions.
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