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1 posted on 08/01/2016 12:40:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Dear High School Senior,

Congratulations! You get FREE COLLEGE TUITION!

Isn't that wonderful?!?

All you have to do for the rest of your life is to pay the tuition for all the college students who will come behind you.

Isn't that wonderful?

50 posted on 08/01/2016 1:03:12 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Make America Great Again!)
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Free college, free food, free clothing, free housing, free healthcare, free wifi . . .

Everything should be free. Actually, people should not have to work (work is oppression), so who needs free college?

Let’s all relax and enjoy our free money from the free money tree.


51 posted on 08/01/2016 1:05:03 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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There is a real problem here. Anyone who pays college tuition knows it has gone up twice as fast as inflation. We are de industrializing and telling everyone to tool up and get college educated. In the old days you could work your way thru school and be debt free on graduation. That isn't possible any more.

I do not have the answer.

53 posted on 08/01/2016 1:06:32 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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AND FREE COFFEE at Starbucks.....


54 posted on 08/01/2016 1:07:20 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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Free college so kids can learn how to be good little democrat socialists..


56 posted on 08/01/2016 1:12:39 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Why not cut out the middleman and simply mail everyone a diploma?

It only follows that if I have the right to free college, I have a right to graduate whether I learn anything or not.

"Everybody has won, and all must have prizes." ................. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Why not skip the race and go directly to the prizes? They'll be worthless anyway.

57 posted on 08/01/2016 1:14:03 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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I understand this and could get on board under the strictest guidelines.
But first I want to know WHY it costs so damn much for college?
And for those who can’t afford it, let’s here real examples, not the “My college debt was 200,000”. Yeah, for 8 years of school to become a brain surgeon, perhaps its required!
The reason I could get on board with free/reduced college is because an educated society benefits the entire populace. Stupid people cause problems, can’t get jobs and are more prone to criminal behavior, thus becoming a drain on society.
I honestly don’t know how it would work, but with the right plan, I could get on board.


59 posted on 08/01/2016 1:18:49 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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Two-thirds of Americans are morons.


60 posted on 08/01/2016 1:20:07 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hell No, DNC, We Won't Vote For Hillary!)
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Then colleges should be like Roach Motels. Everyone gets in but fewer get out.


62 posted on 08/01/2016 1:22:03 PM PDT by ex-snook (The one true God sent Jesus here to show us the way.)
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2/3 of Americans would probably approve of everybody getting a check in the mail for $50,000 too. It does not means we should do it.


63 posted on 08/01/2016 1:22:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Public College tuition is pretty cheap - it’s the fees that are the biggest expense.

Bernie barking for free tuition is disingenuous to his minions, as if it will miraculously solve all ills.
Most state university tuition in my area are less than $1000 a semester, it’s the fees that go into the multi-thousands.

Progressives aren’t screaming for Free-Fees. That’s their bread-and-butter.


66 posted on 08/01/2016 1:29:02 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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Bankrate.com provides no data on how their survey was conducted. Until shown otherwise, I’ll have to assume it was a self-selection operation on a website visited by borrowers. They’d prefer free money — who’da thunk it?

They forgot to ask: Are you willing to pay for someone else’s tuition every year for the rest of your life, whether or not the others are serious students, studying courses likely to result in employment/tax-paying, etc.?


69 posted on 08/01/2016 1:34:02 PM PDT by Chewbarkah (o)
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They probably should be getting their college education for free, because 90%+ are sure as heck not learning anything useful, and are ending up with useless degrees and a lot of debt.


71 posted on 08/01/2016 1:40:24 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Why don’t you throw in a free trip to Tahiti while your at it, and don’t forget the free French lessons!


72 posted on 08/01/2016 1:41:29 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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I call B S on the poll results reflecting any accuracy.

If you consider that close to 50% of people (maybe more now?) rely on some type of entitlement program or welfare benefit, then those 50% probably do think college should be free. Then throw in half or more of those who are actually IN college and those who are in high school, and you might be approaching two-thirds.

Pretty scary.


73 posted on 08/01/2016 1:43:27 PM PDT by NEMDF
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Nope.


74 posted on 08/01/2016 1:58:40 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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You get what you pay for if your spending your own money. I'm all for colleges making connections with businesses where a student would work for the business one semester and then take classes the next. If you don't work you don't eat learn.
75 posted on 08/01/2016 2:04:53 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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STUPID PEOPLE!! The only reason that college costs so much is because of the GOVERNEMNT INVOLVMENT!!

FREE MY ASS!!!

77 posted on 08/01/2016 2:07:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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The University from which I'm about to retire went for more than a hundred years with no tuition. That's right, zero. Forbidden by law from charging it.

Now, the fees...the fees were a killer...

79 posted on 08/01/2016 2:13:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Well, I certainly support lower tuition and the implementation of Web learnin’ for those subjects where it is appropriate. Free is probably too low to promote students to be able to appreciate the boost to education that they are getting. $60/credit hr sounds like a good upper bound.


80 posted on 08/01/2016 2:16:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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