But..yes, I agree, he's still a jerk.
Posted on 06/06/2021 11:45:54 AM PDT by RandFan
HBO’s Bill Maher went after colleges during his show “Real Times with Bill Maher,” comparing them to Scientology and calling higher education a “grift.”
“But in a grift that is our higher education, when you want to move up … you need to pay for more ‘education’ before we decide you can do what you do,” Maher said in his six-minute rant.
“F---, this is what Scientology does. Makes you keep taking courses to move up to the bridge of total freedom,” he added.
The liberal comedian’s monologue was spurred by President Biden’s American Families Plan and the idea of free college for everyone that has been pushed by several Democratic lawmakers.
Maher decried the “hundreds of billions” of dollars in the plan to make sure “everyone can go to college.”
“The right is calling Biden’s plan social engineering, which is over the top … liberals see more school the way Republicans see tax cuts — the answer to everything,” Maher said.
"[College] is a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper middle class,” Maher said. “Is it really liberal for someone who doesn’t go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?”
Maher says the solution to college is not to open it to everyone but make it less needed in society.
“The answer isn’t to make college free, the answer is to make it more unnecessary, which it is for most jobs,” Maher stated.
More and more, he has been spewing the truth.
Yes, he’s a d!ck, but I’m shocked at how much I’ve agreed with him lately.
Nice two-fer.
They are run by radicals. The recent NCAA bullying about travesties for example. The NCAA is run by college presidents.
Also, when it comes to tuition, I've learned, they use two sets of accounting. The public tuition numbers and another number known internally which is the real tuition being paid across the student body. It seems the explosion of tuition in the last 20 years is due to college administrations redistributing wealth in a way they deem appropriate. That should be infuriating to many. At a minimum we need laws that prevent collages from discriminating against those who they think should pay more.
“The public tuition numbers and another number known internally which is the real tuition being paid across the student body. “
Forgot to add, the real number is a fraction of the public facing number.
The idea that everyone should go to college is exactly why we have millions of young barely employable thugs who carry water for terrorist groups like Antifa and BLM.
He is quite right.
Lol! This time he was right on, but there is too much money involved and too many playing to change the scam.
That never fails to give me satisfaction.
Good summary on Maher, that works for me.
Dang!
My Sunday is ruined...
I have to say I agree with this POS on something...
First time ever...
I could list a dozen very good reasons why Maher is a jerk. But I will give credit where credit is due.
Maher is right here. And he is been right on a few other major issues lately. (He’s particularly tough on radical Islam. He won’t try to explain it away.) Here’s why that’s important. When a conservative says something sensible, only half the country will be listening. Maher reaches that other half.
Please keep posting articles about Maher when he is right. They give conservatives another way to move the ball in the right direction. Me to my liberal friends: “Even Bill Maher says...”
Colleges are not a grift, they do exactly what they are intended to. They are a gatepost keeping those with incorrect opinions and backgrounds from being admitted to the elite.
#10 I have more from stock trading then I could ever have made in a job. Not everyone can get a 6 figure job. Heck there are millionaire Youtubers !
You can learn everything you ever need to learn by going online to places like udemy.com.
Soon the wokesters will push to eliminate grades. Grades are white supremacy.
College is a fraternity where they higher others who went to college or their university. I do agree less college is what we should do and it would save billions.
Awwww... all those liberal professors are going to be mad at him now. He went after their gravy train and brainwashing centers.
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