Friday, January 09, 2015
With all due respect how do we pay for this?
How do we pay for this especially in light of our deficit? We don't even know the real costs of Obamacare and its full effect on the economy yet because so much of it has been deferred until the last two years of this President's time in office!
How do we reconstitute our military, fight an endless war in the Middle East, deal with infrastructure, absorb millions of new immigrants, deal with problems in the urban areas ....And pay for free community college?
I'm at a loss on this one. Is this plausible or am I just too pessimistic?
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ReplyDeleteEasily, its hardly going to be a crack team of world leading researchers, it'll be whatever unemployed fool can mouth the right platitudes to teach a 'peace and inclusion' class.
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With the wasted working lives of a generation of Americans, taught that their rote learning of HuPo article qualifies them for something more than asking if i'd like fries with that
Don't worry Sol, the rich are going to pay for it!
ReplyDeletethe problem with that thinking (and i know you're joking but many liberals buy into it) is that rich is relative. the poorest person in the US is a millionaire compared to a starving African. a middle class person is filthy rich compared to a poor kid in the Appalachians. to a middle class person a guy making 200k a year is rich but if they live in NY City then they're just enjoying nights out but don't have much cushion...whereas the same paycheck in rural Alabama is equal to a million dollar a year salary.
Deleteeverything is relative and thats the real issue. from terrorism to the protests in Ferguson we're seeing social pressures. the real problem. people want and they want now without putting in work to get what they want.
once religion was a buffer against this kind of thing but the Muslim religion is starting a jihad against the haves ... the west and even Christianity has been perverted by the "claim it in the name of Jesus" crowd.
God must be punching solar systems cause he's so mad but back to us. the rich is everyone. everyone will pay, no one will really benefit. once everyone has an associate degree then you've devalued that degree. so the problem with skill set not matching whats needed will still exist. this is a stupid plan and everyone knows it.
I already subsidize local community college through my state and local taxes. So it's low cost already. Now he wants me to pay for it all?
ReplyDeleteWe are in need desperately of charismatic and strong leader/voice. Americans, individually are moderately intelligent, but as they look to leaders in the community they are not finding anyone who has distinguished themselves from all of the other narcissistic bombastic asses. I believe that is one of the reason you will see so many people running for the white house in 2016. This coincidentally, is exactly how Woodrow Wilson was elected to office. The American voter looked around for a candidate that was a strong leader and when they couldn't find one they defaulted to a smart candidate, in our era this would obama (lower case intentional). obama, is a smart guy, but as he himself has stated he is a professor, same as Wilson, and the problem with professors, is that they live in worlds of absolutes, ideals and totalitarian freedom, they do not live in realty. My professors at Rollins College in the Economics department, where are insanely intelligent adults, whom i would not trust to run a lemon aide stand, but they instructed, very well, in how to think, evaluate and reason in the discipline of economics. "All things being equal" (which they never are, especially when you through human nature in the mix) allow everyone to attend community college for free would be amazing and would help to produce a more educated and capable society. But, normal humans/Americans need motivation to encourage them to achieve results, as well as consequences. And by providing free secondary education in mass will only devalue the degree and it would water down public school curriculum, by allowing my of the lessons currently taught in high school to be postponed until grades 13 and 14. Don't we already have a hard enough time just getting our youth to graduate high school, let alone pass high school equivalency test. We have the dumbest 18 years of any of the G20 powers, and it is not because of a lack of free education (which the already receive), it is from a lack of motivation instilled by their community and their parents!
ReplyDeleteSo, to rap up my rant, professor are great at being professors, there is a reason they don't run businesses. Same applies to attorneys, if they were decent attorneys they would be a partner in a practice driving a German car, but if they suck, they become politicians. Lacking strong leadership, we default to leaders who are familiar and seem intelligent, professor obama. Free education is stupid, because it removes motivation for complete your degree. Young kids already today are postponing receiving their Driver License, how is a kid who doesn't want to drive going to be encourage to finish their "free" AA, they wont this is a Bull Shit!
Well that will be the end of community college being affordable for the masses of the middle class. Just as happened in the primary colleges with the surge of free easy gov money they will just up the cost to include that plus the regular rate. That will make no difference for those on the gov tit but for the sad others whos skin is too light or parents income above starting wages, it will put community college out of reach like primary colleges.
ReplyDeleteThat is who pays for this crap the middle class. But the pres longterm goal is being achieved like all good socialist utopias you have a huge wallowing poor "workers" lorded by a small amount of modern nobles and pitted against eachother to hold power by a special very well off political class, that is actually the nobles they pretend to be against for the masses. Animal Farm. The two groups that love socialism are the worthless because they have nothing to lose, and the super rich because it will enshrine their positions for time, no more threat for their children from those upstart middle class types.
Sadly we have no one representing the middle class today you just have socialist dems and blue blood establishment repubs. One we are screwed and targeted the other we are restricted but allowed to exist. Not america. The land of free stuff for the worthless and free bailouts for those failed big business guys that travel the right golf circuits. After all we must pity one and the other is just to big to fail which in capitalism is a antithesis.
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ReplyDeleteObama and his his crew are idiots. Dangerous idiots. Once that is accepted we can move forward. Interesting how both mainstream parties have zero solutions for 2016. A real side-show. With that, it is the United States of America. Not, the United Federal Government of America. We need a campaign that increases federal unemployment by 1000 percent within about 20 miles of Washington D.C. The attitude of Versailles on the Potomac has to end.
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