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Originally Posted by erect
Sounds like someone on the board is a prophet. No longer is it a purely hypothetical argument, it's a platform he's using to buy your votes.
$4,000 worth of yearly tuition in exchange for community service
Check it out at 2:00
So ... did you wash your foot before sticking it in your mouth?
EDIT: let me emphasize the part where he says "Every student, every year". That means not the kids that do well in school and maintain a high GPA or do exceptional things in their time spent in school. Every student means the ones who slid by with a 1.8 GPA are getting $4,000/year to attend college. These are the same kids that drop out after a semester or two ... monumental waste of money. This is what happens when democrats throw money at a problem instead of using logic to fix things.
Big government = Big problems |
Whether or not he later did say it, doesn't change the fact that the idea was pulled out of nothingness at the time.
And I'm sorry erect, but you consistently talk about the youth in this country, and quite frankly have no idea about it beyond what you see on MTV and hear old men getting their suspenders in a knot over.
I've been to 3 colleges in my lifetime. None of them ended because I was lazy. One ended because I *had* to move, one ended because I got into MSU. These schools included a community college. I met more people their that had gotten the brunt end of life's stick then in nearly any other place. And by the way, many of them worked their asses off.
You can't whine about welfare people have to get because they're unqualified for most jobs, then whine about what's necessary to get them qualified. It takes an insane amount of money to get educated nowadays, and most people quite frankly don't have it.
Also, I'd wait to hear exactly how much work is required to qualify before I judged the entire plan.
Oh yeah. And for the record, there definitely are things I disagree with Obama on. Yall just happen to hit the ones I agree with him on. For this one, I'm currently unsure. But writing it off immediately and for the reasons you did is ridiculous.