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Obama's tuition pitch
Politico44 ^ | 1/27/12 | BYRON TAU

Posted on 01/27/2012 10:34:33 AM PST by ColdOne

President Barack Obama announced a plan Friday that would pressure colleges and universities to rein in soaring tuition costs by making federal aid to contingent on schools’ affordability and value to students. “Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” Obama said at an event at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. “It’s not just enough to increase student aid and you can imagine why. We can’t just keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition.”

The president framed the issue as one of economic necessity, needed to preserve the engine of the American economy from tough foreign competition.

“We’ve got to have an economy in which every American has access to a world-class higher education,” Obama said.

It’s part of Obama’s election-year pitch to middle-class voters, who are worried about health care, job security, tuition bills and the housing market in an unsteady economy. Obama’s remarks in Michigan came at the end of a three-day, five-state tour to battleground states that focus

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1 posted on 01/27/2012 10:34:39 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Who will lay bricks and do roofing and plumbing?


2 posted on 01/27/2012 10:37:33 AM PST by magna carta
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To: ColdOne

We do not need a nation of college graduates. You might as well claim that every one of us needs to know how to do welding, how to prune bushes, or how to drive a truck.

College is specialized education for specific needs. That’s why there are so many different colleges, so we can choose one specific to what we want to accomplish. Engineering, math, law school, history, psychology, teaching — each person goes to some specific college, and doesn’t learn the skills of the other colleges.

If every person needs some college education, it’s only because the K-12 education system has failed. That was supposed to give us all the basics necessary to move on to any field, and if it isn’t, the answer isn’t to dumb down college and force everybody to do another 4 years of schooling.

We’d probably teach everything we needed if we didn’t waste so much of public school time teaching stuff that the state has no business worrying about. And we could also start failing kids who don’t learn, so they can be held back and learn, rather than having to go off to community college.

But really, Obama doesn’t care about education here — college professors are largely liberals, and he’s just looking out for their jobs.


4 posted on 01/27/2012 10:42:26 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Don’t you wish he would shut up for just a few hours?


5 posted on 01/27/2012 10:45:09 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: ColdOne

clearly, one of the many reasons tuition is so high is that you have tenured professors who are paid way too much. So to follow what Hussein says, professors need to have their salaries and pensions cut.

So, what so you, so lame racist liberal nutjob university professors, who rallied so much to vote for Hussein, are you willing to listen to your Dear Leader so that these poor students can afford education? Distribution of wealth, as you always proclaim? LOL. Friggin hypocrites, all of you.

Yes, rally to cut liberal professors salaries. Start with that nutjob racist lady at Rutgers that yelled at Paul Ryan for his wine and dinner.


6 posted on 01/27/2012 11:01:16 AM PST by DecentAmerican
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To: ColdOne

What he was actually saying was directed to the Plantation Owners at the universities, “Give me some numbers to help me win re-election, and I’ll give you ten times more money.”

The old massah university professors heard this, took another drink of good whiskey, belched, and said, “What’s good for the massahs is good for the sharecroppers.”


7 posted on 01/27/2012 11:04:07 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Tzar

too many people go to college and waste their time and their (and in some cases my tax) money. plus job qualifications tend to get overblown.
i think the main reason you need a master of fine arts (mfa) to teach intro adobe illustrator at a community college is because there are so many mfa artisits who can’t get a job doing anything else.
i want a teacher with 5 years experince in the work place using adobe illustrator AND CAN TEACH than someone who can discuss monet vs manet.


8 posted on 01/27/2012 11:24:40 AM PST by bravo whiskey (If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: Tzar

“Having everyone hang out for four years won’t ensure everyone will be educated, especially students who got a poor K12 education.”

This is about votes, not education. Obama has to draw back the young people he alienated by slowing our economy even further; all of his college cheerleaders from 3 years ago are still awaiting their first job.


9 posted on 01/27/2012 12:00:12 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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