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Obama pushes $60 billion plan for free community college
Yahoo! News ^ | January 9, 2015 | Steve Holland

Posted on 01/10/2015 6:48:14 AM PST by Kaslin

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promoted a proposal to offer two years of free community college tuition to students on Friday but the plan and its $60 billion pricetag over 10 years immediately faced skepticism from Republican lawmakers.

Obama floated the education idea on the third and final day of a tour to promote agenda items being prepared for his Jan. 20 State of the Union address, a speech that will be his first to the U.S. Congress since Republicans won the Senate in November elections.

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To: huldah1776

“Just as colleges raised the tuition and fees when the government got into student loans (like most other corporations) they will again for this. What they need to do is come up with a psych test to assess who will survive to graduate. How about college boot camp?”

That would be racist, and you know it.

Don’t ask me HOW, but it would be.


41 posted on 01/10/2015 8:10:30 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: Kaslin
One of the proposed stipulations is that the student must maintain a C+ average.

So, if the said student maintains a C average, does that mean that he must pay back all the money?

If so, then there will have to be a whole system set up in order to retrieve payment out of the said "C" student.

Wouldn't it be much easier for the student to find a mack daddy like B. Hussein had, who paid for all his time at Oxidental and Columbia with no stipulation about grades?

42 posted on 01/10/2015 8:14:38 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Candor7
Just think of it! All those former Acorn employees with federally guaranteed education jobs, and affordable health care to boot!

Yeah....a passport to a federal job complete with big bennies...

Like this guy...."Obamacare Navigator"


43 posted on 01/10/2015 8:15:27 AM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Kaslin

The Jug-Eared Jackass can’t give away enough “free” stuff. What the Hell, he ain’t payin’ for it.


44 posted on 01/10/2015 8:17:00 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: HangnJudge

Obama’s stash?


45 posted on 01/10/2015 8:26:47 AM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

Not only that, but what if the “student” drops out before the 2-years, and then comes back for another two. Like Bluto Blutarsky said in Animal House, “these were the best ten years of my life!”


46 posted on 01/10/2015 8:27:24 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Key word “...federalizing...”


47 posted on 01/10/2015 8:29:37 AM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: PrincessB

Great statement!


48 posted on 01/10/2015 8:32:23 AM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: Kaslin
Free? Just exactly what does that mean?

Nothing, I repeat, nothing, is free.

Every dime spent by the Feds or their agencies comes from an individual taxpayer, usually, one who works for a living.

49 posted on 01/10/2015 8:58:47 AM PST by Banjoguy (The U.S. government is now a criminal enterprise, at war with the population.)
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To: SZonian

Preezy steezy making’ it rain


50 posted on 01/10/2015 9:26:04 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Kaslin

Just a distraction in an endless parade of distractions from the central point that he and his party lost BIG two months ago.


51 posted on 01/10/2015 9:26:04 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Kaslin
However, the president's announcement said that the plan could benefit as many as nine million students who could save an average of $3,800 per year. This would put the total cost at a little more than $34 billion.
-- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamas-free-community-college-plan-could-cost-34b-year_823398.html

So that would be around $60 billion for the two-year community college program. $340 billion over 10 years.

And that's assuming average college tuition remains at $3,800 over ten years. I predict it will double in three years with all that "free" federal money coming in.

52 posted on 01/10/2015 9:28:04 AM PST by offwhite
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To: Kaslin

This is nothing but a full-employment act for community college owners and personnel, with the “unexpected” side-effect of driving community college tuition through the roof. Pretty much like what’s happened with the existing student “loan” program.

BTW, if obama were to get this, the next step would be to want to “forgive” existing student loans because it’s “unfair” that THEY had to BORROW their money BEFORE the new freebee program went into effect.


53 posted on 01/10/2015 9:29:40 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kaslin

Another Obama free carrot on a stick prepping for 2016 elections.


54 posted on 01/10/2015 9:41:20 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: huldah1776

Yea, all the associates degrees in LGBT, black women, Cuban gov’t, etc., you know, everything people need to know to get good jobs are “free”.


55 posted on 01/10/2015 10:50:38 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

LOL talked to a 22 year old a while back who actually thought it was all free. She was shocked when I mentioned that it is paid with taxes. Grew up in OHIO.


56 posted on 01/10/2015 10:56:40 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: Regulator

Well, the combined endowments of the top 4 richest (measured in endowment money) US universities is ~103-110 Billion Dollars. All the US has to do is confiscate, in a ‘graduated manner’ like the tax code they espouse, 10-25% of the top 25 university endowments and they could fund this program....


57 posted on 01/10/2015 11:09:23 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Kaslin

1.) Given the caveat that if one is willing to work hard, it is not free.

2.) If you are paying taxes, you have not learned anything.


58 posted on 01/10/2015 11:14:27 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: depressed in 06

What? Do not understand your point?


59 posted on 01/10/2015 11:15:26 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Kaslin

We already have free PELL GRANTs for Community College educations.

This is a scam and intended for the ILLEGALS to get to go to college on the taxpayer dime. And adults can get this too, just like the Pell Grant, a great way to hide young muslims, as they get money in addition to an education, as they qualify for food stamps and all kinds of things.

I taught community college...this is not necessary. The Pell Grant will pay for everything, it is decided on parents or self income tax filings from previous year, and no paying back. FISHY?


60 posted on 01/10/2015 11:18:50 AM PST by Kackikat
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