The Real Question…
By Mitch Berg
…to me has never been “does Bernie Sanders believe this, deep in the pit of his heart”.
The real question is, how, really, are Hillary Clinton’s, Mark Dayton’s, Tom Bakk’s, Chris Coleman’s and Betsy Hodges’ beliefs any different?”
August 10th, 2015 at 9:56 am
They are not. Oh, sorry, rhetorical question.
August 10th, 2015 at 10:10 am
I’m still trying to figure out why he thinks giving free tuition to anyone who wants to go to college is a good idea. So I’m a 17 year old trying to figure what to do with my life. I can spend the next 4 years boozing it up, chasing girls, put in some half-ass class work. And not have to pay anything?
And Hillary’s similar plan only does it for government run schools, not private.
And the plan to pay for it? Raise taxes on financial markets. So when said markets relocate to a foreign country, tax revenue drops, how will you pay for this? Once you offer the free stuff, you can’t take it back.
August 10th, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Per Chuck’s comment, the ability of the left to ignore the law of supply and demand just boggles the imagination. When I was traveling in Germany back in 1989, it struck me that just about every aimless university student was studying “Jura”–law–and that they couldn’t possibly need that many lawyers. But tuition was free, so people would proclaim that major and keep studying until they forced them to graduate. And then they wondered why so many people couldn’t find work.
Hmmm…..hard to figure that one out. And this was in a country where you didn’t go to university without passing your college prep high school examination, the Abitur. Imagine what the situation would have been if they, like us, allowed young people to go to university while still unable to do high school English and mathematics.
Democrats (socialists); the party that relentlessly offers people the easy way out, and then is surprised when people take it.
August 10th, 2015 at 1:24 pm
How about a compromise. If college is going to be free (sic), then make it like the free clinic. Or the free cell phone from SPRINT.
Get rid of the rock climbing walls. No free on-campus sports. No rec center. You get classrooms & labs. A library. And dorms that are like they were in the 1950s.
If you want all the fun stuff…those are “options” that you pay extra for. The country club universities should not be free.
August 10th, 2015 at 2:41 pm
The new college is the old high school anyhow.
Did I ever tell you about the community college teacher I had that didn’t know what Eisenhower’s rank was in WW2? She said she wasn’t much into military history.
The class she was teaching was 20th century American history.
She had won several prestigious teaching awards.
August 10th, 2015 at 6:01 pm
An addition to the “law of supply and demand” above. It would seem that if at sometime most everyone had a college degree through a program like free tuition, like most now have a high school degree, the law of supply would do what? Decrease the value of a college degree. If you have something most everyone else has, you’re not special anymore in the eyes of an employer.
August 11th, 2015 at 8:19 pm
PB as a US History major failure (literally, and proud of it) I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at that statement.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:35 am
Obviously, the cure to failing primary and secondary schools is to keep kids in government run education longer. That’ll do the trick.