The President announced that two years
of junior college will be free if “you are willing to work hard.” Was he
referring to working hard to keep up stellar grades or doing community service
in exchange for “free” or subsidized tuition? Surely even liberals must
understand that nothing is free, somebody must pay for it, it is basic
economics. There is an opportunity cost attached to any choice made. Not to
mention that the government is going to dictate the curriculum taught in these
junior colleges and there will be subliminal deliberate indoctrination.
Since liberals run education, it is
really easy to search for ulterior motives. As Thomas Sowell said, “The real
motives of liberals have nothing to do with the welfare of other people.
Instead, they have two related goals – to establish themselves as morally and
intellectually superior to the rather distasteful population of common people,
and to gather as much power as possible to tell those distasteful common people
how they must live their lives.”
How much is this generous “free”
education going to cost U.S. taxpayers? The initial estimation is $60 billion,
however, with everything that the government does, the price tag will escalate
to much larger levels. The $10 billion the government lost on bailing out GM
and Chrysler, not counting the forced loss to private investors, pales by
comparison to how much taxpayers are going to lose with this “free” community
college education.
Heritage Foundation’s Lindsey M. Burke
reports that students with “C” average or better, will have three-quarters of
the cost paid by our government with hopes that states will cover one-fourth,
saving students $3,800 in tuition costs per year. This sounds like the
Obamacare promise of saving families $2,500 a year in premiums. That worked out
really well.
What’s going to keep junior colleges
from increasing their tuitions, knowing that the government is paying the tab,
Burke wonders. Federal subsidies should decrease, not increase. “According to
the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, only 20 percent of
community college students transfer to four-year schools, and only 72 percent
of those will have finished or remained enrolled four years later.” http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/09/free-community-college-anything-free/
Rush Limbaugh suggested on his show that
perhaps President Obama is offering this “freebie” because he wants the young
vote; maybe he wants to sweeten the financial pie after young people are going
to have to fork over penalties for non-compliance with Obamacare, pay taxes on
the subsidies, and lose potential W-2 tax refunds to IRS collection.
Who says that everybody is college
material or is actually taking classes to learn? Some do it in order to defraud
the government. One colleague mentioned 19 students who enrolled with a
government grant through one of the community college programs, collecting over
$20,000. By the end of the semester, the 19 students had passed a total of 12
semester hours even though the courses chosen were very easy. None returned.
The following school year, the same people attempted to enroll in a community
college 550 miles away with the same intent of fraud. Because the two community colleges had
academic ties, contact was made, and it was verified that the very same 19 were
involved.
William Voegeli was quoted in the Blaze,
“It sounds like what we’re saying is that…since the K-12 education system is
doing such a questionable job on behalf of most of our students, what we’re
really going to have now is a K-14 educational system. We’re going to have a
fifth and sixth year of high school.” http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/01/12/is-president-obamas-free-community-college-plan-an-indictment-of-americas-education-system/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
There is a model of extended high school
in Germany. The students who wish to pursue a college degree must attend a
five-year high school. The rest either go to technical schools, apprentice
schools, or are trained by various companies who foot the education bill.
Who says that a college degree is worth
much anymore? Lately it’s like attending a bastion of liberal insanity. If you
are interested in classes and degrees in studies of race, gender, environmental
justice, social justice, and other non-sense degrees that will leave you
unemployable after four years of expensive college tuition, and you don’t care
that free speech is suppressed, then college is for you.
My education was theoretically free in
Romania until, after two years of college, I decided to move to America. Why
should capitalists benefit from my education, I was told? Suddenly my free
education was no longer free. The communist party decided that I had to pay
back the cost of everything, elementary, middle, high school, and two years of
college. Thank God I did not go to
kindergarten and day care, my parents were too poor to afford it, it was only
free to communist party elites’ children.
How much was it all worth, I asked? At subsidy
rates, it was about $250 in 1978 dollars. I got a good education, minus the
socialist/communist indoctrination, so the price was more than reasonable even
though we were dirt-poor. The college tuition in the U.S. at that time was about
$600 per semester in a state university.
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