I laugh when the right complains about Barack Obama always promising to give away free stuff. You know, free stuff is actually quite popular. If you like paying for stuff, vote for the Republicans. When you’re done paying for the full cost of that high-speed internet connection, four-year college education, and cancer surgery, you can thank the GOP for keeping your marginal tax rate low and saving you a couple hundred bucks.
This is not complicated.
The TP/GOP is not satisfied with you paying. Just like taking away SSD. I currently am on SSD. I paid in for over 40 years and now they want to take away the SSD that I paid in for.I guess working 12 hours a day, seven days a week and getting a max of 3 hours sleep a day is not enough for these guys.
It cost me big time via not one but 2 strokes. These people need to get a clue.
Subsidies to keep college affordable, for healthcare and the like require taxes. Rich people would rather keep every last stinking dime for themselves. A peasant class is important to maintain if you want to live in a mansion and own a yacht. When little people can get good jobs with decent wages it becomes so hard to find good help.
Learned a few days ago that a niece got suckered into a for-profit college program. She had recently earned an AA at a community college, but had a non-trivial outstanding student loan for specialized training in her field. Unlike many, she is employed in her field above the lower ranks but not by much. She thought a BS would help her advance. Unfortunately, there were no viable options other than the for-profit on-line college for her. She didn’t fully appreciate the low educational quality and high cost of this option and overestimated the value of a BS for her at this stage of her life and career.
I’m guessing that she thought her loan applications were for the entire two years (60 units) and not until she was close to completing the first year (30 units) discovered that the cost is $20,000+/year. Fortunately, she did the only financially sensible thing for her to do at this point and dropped out. Financially she’s screwed but another year would have ruined her.
In general, IMHO these schools are a pustule on the US educational/vocational training system. Blame for this is shared by our loose accreditation and student loan systems. However, that doesn’t absolve students from not researching before signing on the dotted lines.
Ha ha, the people this meme is aimed at loves free stuff, especially if it’s at some else’s expense. Traditional America has been some of the biggest non-rich welfare queens in history, with massive handouts like the Mexican War and the US Army shooing brown people out of their homes.
No, when the Republican Party whines about ‘free stuff’, you’re missing a big chunk of the dog whistle. The entire message, when broadcasted and received correctly, is: ‘Obama offered people not in your cultural tribe free stuff!’
What Traditional America hates is other people, those people getting free stuff. They hate it so much that they’re willing to snatch the toys out of their kids’ hands and the dentures and medicine tablets out of their parents’ mouths if someone promises that those people will get it at least as bad.
It doesn’t paint a very nice picture of Traditional America, but what honest assessment does?
Keeeeee-rect. It really does depend on who’s getting the “free stuff.”
I should get free stuff because I’m paying for it. The others are not paying for it, so they don’t get any of MY free stuff.
I really enjoyed the commenter in the article who accused Obama of having everything handed to him on a silver platter.