It's just another evil form of taking money away from people who earn it and giving it to people who didn't earn it
*says the guy who went to public school
MachZer0 said:
It all goes back to envy and covetousness
*says the guy who went to public school
1.) Public schools (including colleges) are already subsidized by the government. This wouldn't be a new subsidy per se - it would merely be extending a subsidy that already exists.
2.) You don't know what stipulations are going to be attached to this, so there could very well be a requirement that people "earn it."
3.) The wealthy people in this country are, by-and-large, wealthy because they have an educated populace from which to draw workers. Without those educated workers, most of them would be as broke as anybody, yet they did nothing to "earn" that resource - they were handed access to it. Charging them a little more to maintain that resource is not "evil."
If they are "willing to work for it" why aren't they "willing to pay for it"?
Because when you're out of work, coming up with the scratch for community college can be tough.
I don't see what the government has to do with this...
Think of it like a scholarship.
But also, it's in the government's and society's interest for the population to be educated. That's why we have compulsory primary & secondary education. The standards in the job market, however, have shifted such that a high school diploma is no longer sufficient for most people to get a half-way decent job. At least some college is needed.
I am all for higher education, but going to college is better when the person wants to go rather than being forced to go by the state... because I can see this leading to that. The article seems to suggest Obama has ambitions of extending public education into the community college realm, beyond the typical k-12.
Most kids hate school right? Why is that? because they have to go.
Obama made no comments about college being compulsory - but he didn't really have to. The job market has already pushed us in that direction anyways; the government doesn't have to force us into college, when employers and the threat of being perpetually poor have already done that.