Ya know...It's expensive to get a college education these days. OK, It's always been a bit pricey, but at one point in time, a kid could work a couple of part time jobs during the school year and a full time job in the summer and still make enough to pay tuition and have enough left over for a beer or two. Maybe with a scholarship or two thrown in the mix. It might not have been Harvard, but a small public, liberal arts college was certainly doable. Enter then, the era of the student loan.
Student loans and the ever increasing demand by everyone for your tax dollar killed the idea of a reasonably priced college education. As student loans became easier to get, state legislatures eased more and more dollars away from funding the state colleges and universities to placate louder voices screaming for money. The kids squealed a bit as tuition kept going up and up, but they just got another loan and pressed on with their schooling.
Now, to get a degree, the kids end up with enough debt that they are paying the loans off well into their 30s and 40s. Some, even into their 50s.
And because of this, it seems that the radical loonie left has come up with a plan.
1. Free Tuition
2. Excuse ALL loans
3 $15.00 minimum wage on all college campuses.
The people who are demanding this are essentially free loaders They claim that all we have to pay is just a few pennies more in taxes on our stock transactions.
To clear over a trillion dollars of student debt and give everyone a free ride is gonna cost more than a few pennies per stuck transaction. More importantly, those are MY pennies and you don't deserve them! I worked for them and I didn't work for them to give them away to some dope smoking idiot to study Marxist Philosophy
Here's an idea. If you think we all owe you a college education, why don't you get off of your ass and go door to door demanding that your neighbors pay for your education instead of demanding that the government do that for you. I'd like to see how much is in your account at the end of the day.
As one of those college graduates who is paying off loans into my 40s, I agree with you. As much as I hate having to send hard-earned money to pay for an education that I'm not using, I'm not demanding that someone else pay it for me. That would be ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI'm already weary of freeloaders, and many of them aren't much younger than I am!