Posted on 01/23/2016 1:56:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson announced Thursday he had filed a bill to make tuition free and restructure student loans for students at public colleges and universities.
Grayson, an Orlando Democrat running for Florida's U.S. Senate seat, modeled his House Resolution 4385, introduced last week, after a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last year by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is running for president.
The would have the U.S. Department of Education award grants to states to allow them to eliminate tuition and other required fees at state colleges and universities.
The bill was referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. It does not yet have any co-sponsors.
It also would modify provisions related to interest rates on future federal student loans, regardless of public or private colleges, and allow current student loan borrowers to modify their interest rates to reflect current rates.
It also has provisions that address Federal Work Study programs and financial assistance programs.
"This bill provides qualified students with the means to get a high-quality education at a state school, as well as make it easier for graduates of private universities to pay off their debts," Grayson stated in a news release issued by his Congressional office.
"Our students and graduates currently owe $1.2 trillion due to the high cost of tuition and high student loan interest rates. That's more than we owe on our credit cards. It's stopping many graduates from buying houses, starting businesses, or in many cases even moving out of their parents' homes. It stops them from fully participating in our economy, which hurts all of us. We have the means, and the need, to provide tuition-free education to our students. It's time we did so."
I get the impression not even democrats trust Alan Grayson, or want much to do with him. We’ve all seen how easy it is for Grayson to make nasty, hateful, false remarks.
Loons tend to flock together.
Nope. I worked my way through two degress. You can not get my money for your college— GO TO WORK!!
If they push through where students get to attend college without paying, classes will become a total joke.
A lot of the "culture classes" in college are designed for students that have no business in a college and can't handle a legit workload of STEM or workforce classes. Making it free for students would triple down on the number of classes discussing the true meaning of Luke and Leia's kiss in a male dominated society.
As an oldster, it appears to me that kids need to go to college just to get a high school education these days.
I love how these colleges are never confronted with their ever increasing massive tuitions. Yes, instead let the taxpayer pay whatever they want.
You’re right; many degrees are set up to keep unqualified students in for the whole four years. When I was in college twenty plus years ago those “students” rarely lasted past the first year. I suspect the government wants certain “preferred minorities” in college just so they defer parenthood a few years - and it seems to work to some extent.
Those basket weaving degrees will allow them to take jobs that require degrees, though: cops (in some areas), military officers, teachers...
More free stuff. Vote for us.
These young people don’t get an education at all. Instead they are thoroughly indoctrinated in commie ideology. They can recite all they’ve been taught about racism, the “war on women,” the religion of peace, “income inequality” and what not, but they can’t add 2 numbers together or write a coherent sentence.
And they wonder why after high school and university, the only job they can excel in is slinging hamburgers at McDonald’s.
So, when everyone gets a “free” college education, the standard for entry level jobs will be a graduate degree rather than the devalued undergrad degree.
Alan Grayson, the paragon of virtue that ALL Democrats aspire to.
The bomb-throwing Florida Democrat Congressman served just one term in Congress before losing to GOP Rep. Dan Webster in 2010, then rode back in on a newly-drawn deep-blue district in 2012. He had carved out a reputation in Washington as a progressive capable of exploding at any moment on nearly any issue.
Grayson’s bombast could be exhausting at times. Among other things, Grayson said that former Vice President Dick Cheney has blood “dripping from his teeth,” called a female lobbyist a “K-Street whore,” said Rush Limbaugh was “more lucid when he was a drug addict,” and warned “Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.”
Nothing extreme about that. Bernie should really be careful about accepting that kind of support. But of course, Bernie might well embrace it warmly.
There is not much benefit in going to college any more. Government should not pay for it. The quality of the individuals it churns out reflects the decades of marxist influence in education.
That is already happening for “preferred minorities”; anyone who treats a college degree in the hands of a Hispanic, black, or woman as equal to one in the hands of a white or Asian guy is a fool. A graduate degree in the hands of the former is basically the equivalent of a high school diploma for the latter.
The problem with college today is much worse than what they are churning out; the fact is that lucrative jobs are either being sent elsewhere or being staffed by imported foreigners here.
Risking four years’ time and tuition with few job prospects at the end of the journey is a lot to expect of young people.
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