Obama proposes free community college education for all. THANKS OBAMA

[ClarkKentBrah]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...lege/21466969/

[Swifty94]

I literally would suck his dink just to get a job at the white house

[helpmee]

I would be for that..

But I am
against student loan forgiveness
against universal health care
against almost everything else he is for

Issue is when you fund something like this the costs sky rocket
If most student loans were not federally guaranteed and financial aid wasn't given out college costs would be a fraction of what they are today

The schools would need to match the students ability to pay
If it was not so easy to get 100k to go to art school, that same school would cost 20k

So if CC is $3800 average..
Once you get 3/4 federal funding guaranteed expect the cost to double..
Student pay the share if any (the 1/4 left over)...
... Tax payers pay double
Maybe in the coming years that 1/4 ends up being the $3800 lol

[ClarkKentBrah]

Lol at comment

[Mav3535]

no that's a terrible idea.

No one will go to a 4 year school as a freshman or sophomore then. And we'll all have to foot a bigger tax bill or some form of debt in order to fund this.

In FL, they have something called Bright Futures. It used to be: If you met the standards for it, you got almost all of 4 year uni paid for at their state schools. Then they decided to give out $$ from the Bright Futures fund to community college dopes. Now it's down to paying for only 50% of tuition. Thanks a fcking a lot liberals b/c I had most of college paid for until like 2 years ago when they did this.

cliffs: nothing is "free" in life, someone always pays dearly for this

[ClarkKentBrah]

I would be for that..

But I am
against student loan forgiveness
against universal health care
against almost everything else he is for

Issue is when you fund something like this the costs sky rocket
If most student loans were not federally guaranteed and financial aid wasn't given out college costs would be a fraction of what they are today

The schools would need to match the students ability to pay
If it was not so easy to get 100k to go to art school, that same school would cost 20k

So if CC is $3800 average..
Once you get 3/4 federal funding guaranteed expect the cost to double..
Student pay the share if any (the 1/4 left over)...
... Tax payers pay double
Maybe in the coming years that 1/4 ends up being the $3800 lol

Aren't most if not all community colleges state run though?

[Gt3x24x7]

12 years of free public education through primary school is more than to enough teach people the most basic ****ing skills to survive

[pggopher]

It will probably be based off of income thresholds so yet again the middle class gets screwed. The poor will benefit from it but the people barely above the threshold will have to pay a lot more since schools can get away with charging more since the gubment will foot the bill. I would approve of this if it was trades and trades only.

[Inb4ImRed]

It might as well already be free now.

[Oddball8945]

so a free associates degree? That fukig is cool but at the same time pisses me off considering I spent money on that ****

[Exiled93]

Already taken place in TN for the upcoming Fall 2015 semester.

Already done my time at community college so not too sure about it but I know you have to do some community service to maintain it - not bad at all.

[Bloodmane92]

12 years of free public education through primary school is more than to enough teach people the most basic ****ing skills to survive

...But doesn't provide the degrees necessary to live a successful life.

[ClarkKentBrah]

It will probably be based off of income thresholds so yet again the middle class gets screwed. The poor will benefit from it but the people barely above the threshold will have to pay a lot more since schools can get away with charging more since the gubment will foot the bill. I would approve of this if it was trades and trades only.

I think the point of this is that it won't be. That's excatly how it is right now with financial aid.

[Ochosiete]

Not fair to those that payed their way through college....also I hope they never do some stupid student loan forgiveness

[derkerkjerk]

Already taken place in TN for the upcoming Fall 2015 semester.

Already done my time at community college so not too sure about it but I know you have to do some community service to maintain it - not bad at all.

Is it statewide here? I thought I heard only one CC in Memphis was doing it for people to get a 2year and then transfer out.

Either way, hell of a deal (thanks Haslem) for setting that up for kids. Would take advantage of if I had that opportunity.

[badbart]

Awesome, now someone else will pay for your lazy ass to go to school.

[helpmee]

It will probably be based off of income thresholds so yet again the middle class gets screwed. The poor will benefit from it but the people barely above the threshold will have to pay a lot more since schools can get away with charging more since the gubment will foot the bill. I would approve of this if it was trades and trades only.

As I read it ...
They cover 3/4
You need to cover 1/4 as a student
If you are poverty you would not need to cover the 1/4

If you were not poor you would of needed to cover the complete costs anyways
This way you get the 3/4 covered
If you were poor before you would of gone for free either way

This seems like a benefit for the middle class..
Wealthy people in general are not going to CC
poor people do not pay for shat either way

[incomingbrOMS]

If you were a good student in my hometown you have always been able to go to the county CC for free.

[bking10]

Hopefully this incentivizes people to start at community college and complete most of the useless first year college classes and then transfer into university. It won't, but that would greatly lower the amount of people who graduate with large student loan debt

[regl8r]

It might as well already be free now.

Exactly ^^^ what is community college a semester like 2K?

[Chasthetics]

Yay, let's expand the educational bubble even more! Thanks Obama!

[badbart]

Its not free you tards. Someone is paying for it.

[Couthos]

i went to CC for free. if you cant afford it, states already give you assistance. so what's the relevance of this?

Aye.. I paid like $20 a unit. It's dirt cheap to begin with

[Laverna]

Nothing in life is free.

Enjoy paying your taxes for people who don't even care about college and are only going because it's free. Brb people don't study because they don't care and have a useless degree at the end which has cost the taxpayer $20,000ea.

Australia has the best system (other than the 50% subsidy, should be 100% paid by students) in which the government LENDS you the money at the inflation rate and you start paying it back once you earn above the treshold (circa $55k).

[TaeBoNinja]

no that's a terrible idea.

No one will go to a 4 year school as a freshman or sophomore then. And we'll all have to foot a bigger tax bill or some form of debt in order to fund this.

In FL, they have something called Bright Futures. It used to be: If you met the standards for it, you got almost all of 4 year uni paid for at their state schools. Then they decided to give out $$ from the Bright Futures fund to community college dopes. Now it's down to paying for only 50% of tuition. Thanks a fcking a lot liberals b/c I had most of college paid for until like 2 years ago when they did this.

cliffs: nothing is "free" in life, someone always pays dearly for this

Tuition was free in CA since 1932, and very successful. Only recently did they add fees. College grads are the best investment a state can make for their economy.

[OniichanJoe]

what waste more money its technically free if your low income cause you can get pell grant which pays for all of my classes and some of my books.

[eglionz]

Community college is already cheap and if you can't afford it you're probably going to struggle anyhow.

It would be better to address the issue of the tuition prices which have been driven in large part by student loans.

I'm not knocking student loans, I used them myself, but it certainly didn't take the schools long to figure out that they could raise tuition and keep collecting that $$. The two are linked and there has been zero ****s given to figure out how to make a better system.

[LatinoSlayer91]

If its run anything like Obamacare, it'll make college mandatory and force everyone to buy high interest student loans.

*******

[Gaindowed]

Not fair to those that payed their way through college....also I hope they never do some stupid student loan forgiveness

So we should never improve just because others have had it worse off?
That is complete bull.

[elterrible987]

lol congress wont pass this chit brah. no need to worry



They need to stop farking giving out fed subsidized loans for all of these worthless ITT tech 'degrees' though