{"id":50467,"date":"2015-01-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50467"},"modified":"2015-01-19T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T02:46:18","slug":"so-in-other-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50467","title":{"rendered":"So In Other Words…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…our semi-retired President is going to propose paying for “free” communithy college for everyone…<\/p>\n

…by taxing peoples’ savings to put their own kids through college<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Two points, here.<\/p>\n

Face Value<\/strong>: \u00a0If we take the \u00a0President at his (ostensible) word, that means the nation’s community college system will inherit the worst of both worlds; the government control that’s made the public school system such a sclerotic disaster, and the financial firehose that’s led to the “higher education bubble”. \u00a0And let’s not even concern ourselves just now with the deepening ideological conformity that this would impose on the higher ed system?<\/p>\n

What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

Shelf Life<\/strong>: \u00a0But fear not. \u00a0As with everything else in Obama’s presidency, it’s not about educating young people. \u00a0It’s about trying to demigogue the education issue<\/a>, to give the Democrat Party a chanting point in the next election. \u00a0 Republicans who vote against\u00a0taxing people who saved for education to benefit those who didn’t\u00a0<\/em>is an ideal demogogueing point.<\/p>\n

And that’s really all there is to Obama’s “free community college” proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…our semi-retired President is going to propose paying for “free” communithy college for everyone… …by taxing peoples’ savings to put their own kids through college? Two points, here. Face Value: \u00a0If we take the \u00a0President at his (ostensible) word, that means the nation’s community college system will inherit the worst of both worlds; the government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50490,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467\/revisions\/50490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}