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Feb 25, 2008, 12:56 PM
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| | | Free college for everyone. Bad idea?
I heard Obama say that he wants to provide free college to every American. I think it's a terrible idea. He would spend gadzillions of our money, and when everyone has a college degree, those grads will be flippin burgers and hanging onto garbage trucks. We will have come full circle and wasted who knows how much money. Socialism doesn't work very well.
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Feb 25, 2008, 01:13 PM
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| i think its a good idea for those who couldn't afford to go otherwise.... education is important and hey if the people actually going to college worked and tried they won't be flippin no burgers! |
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Feb 25, 2008, 01:25 PM
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| I agree with terellowens. It would be so awesome to be able to go to any college and not worry about it costing $80,000 per semester! | |
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Feb 25, 2008, 01:36 PM
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| I hadn't heard about that before. Did he say how he planned on coming up with the money for that? | |
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Feb 25, 2008, 01:46 PM
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| Can you provide some evidence / link to him saying this please? Otherwise it is very hard to comment on it without knowing the details. | |
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Feb 25, 2008, 01:48 PM
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| Stanford is doing their part: Stanford drops tuition for some students Quote:
In a radical change to its financial aid program, Stanford University will announce today that it will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year.
In addition, the university will waive room and board fees for students whose families earn less than $60,000 a year.
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Feb 25, 2008, 01:53 PM
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| Wow, that's cool! | |
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Feb 25, 2008, 02:17 PM
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| I see no problem with having more work programs, so those that want to go and afford to do so, or haing it tied to military service or other service like peace corp. | |
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Feb 25, 2008, 02:32 PM
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| both Democrats have said that in return for about $4000 annual credit for college (Hillary's plan is $3500) there would be a mandatory 2 year service requirement (community ,public ,military ) . Aint nothin free ! | |
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Feb 25, 2008, 02:37 PM
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Pay to call J_9 for advice ($.75/min) | Is that the same plan for those of us who are over 40 and back in college? Obviously we can't go into the military, so that would leave me with community or public service? | |
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