Posted on 04/11/2016 1:03:32 PM PDT by pabianice
They get 13 years of free education, K-12. If they can’t get an entry level job with that, tough luck.
I know a free college ... the College of Hard Knocks. Get your application in now, and maybe you can matriculate in the Fall.
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Um, NO. And NO to the rest of the reasons why college should be "free", including "access to free food, housing, books and any other cost necessary". So if you need a car, your car should be free? If you need clothes during those four years, clothes should be free. NO.
None of this is FREE because people like ME have to pay for it.
As soon as the professors teach for free and speakers don’t demand 1/4 million to give speeches, etc...not!!!
No it should not. In Europe it’s free, but there are brutally competitive, difficult exams to get in. The USA will not do that because it would exclude two politically-protected victim groups. So, under Hillary or sanders college will be paid for by taxpayers and entry requirements will be lowered for diversity.
College will be even more of a joke than it is.
The cost doesn’t matter. Its just another method of establishing political control over an important part of civil society.
We can spend the next 200 posts ripping this to shreds....fact of the matter is that this WILL happen, because they can just about outvote us.
Scrap all the "studies" departments and replace them with trade schools for those who flunk out because they are forced to take real courses. It's going to be tough to field a basketball or football team.
I think food should be free. But oh, those damned supermarkets, all they care about is profit.
I graduated from college with zero student loan debt, thanks to my Army ROTC scholarship. GI Bill paid for my masters, too.
I got my PHD in real life as a Platoon Leader...lol.
Too damned bad, you little POS. Your debt load is not OUR problem.
For those keeping score at home:
Government intervention in the form of loans and grants hyper-inflated college tuition. Simply put, the more government gravy that became available, the more colleges ramped up the cost of tuition. Statistics clearly bear this out.
The higher the cost of tuition the more students were forced to borrow. Moreover, the ease of borrowing allowed many students to throw in the cost of that cool spring break, new cell phone, maybe an old car, etc.
Now we have a couple of generations of carefree snowflakes who have borrowed to the hilt, and often irresponsibly. They are now drowning in debt with many simply biding their time waiting for Comrade Bernie or Hillary to wave the magic wand and forgive all student loans and hand the cost over to taxpayers.
Maybe homeboy needs to get a job instead of writing a whiny blog.
Frickin’ crybabies, if you are $30 K in debt, get rid of the cell phone and pay off the debt like you would a car loan. Instead of purchasing a car and paying a payment for that plus insurance, ride mass transit or get a decent used car for less than $2 K and baby it. In four years you will be debt free just by cutting $100+ from the phone bill, $150 that is wasted at Starbucks, and no eating out which is likely another $200 per month. See how easy this could be?
It isn’t a “right” if another person must labor to provide it.
Right. They can instead leech off society as "professional students," i.e., weak pussies who are too fearful of venturing out into the real world and spend the next 10 years nibbling at their "gender studies degrees."
“And how will we pay for this idea?”
Obama’s ‘stash’
My student debt is around $45,000 right now
ANd you could have learned more and really got an Education by reading Free Republic 1 hour a day for 6 months.
“Higher education is a right.”
No, it isn’t.
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