Free college is just another dumb libtard idea

[JohnR! 5,495]

In my opinion, it's justifiable for "everyone" to pay for something "everyone" (or almost everyone) will need.

A K-12 education is one of those things, as are roads and air control towers and national defense and the people who tell us about SARS etc.

A college education is not one of those things.

There is no difference. A K-12 education is as important as college. As with the other items you mention - infrastructure - nobody pays attention to them until they stop working or collapse. The same is true of education.

[Karee 4,191]

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

[Ozz777 23]

Who's gonna pay for it?

Nobody. It's free. Like air.

[GandD 5,966]

I don't have any brats running around. Why should I even have to pay for K-12?

Ha, sign me up for a world where I never had to pay for stuff I don't use

[mota bhai 2,675]

A K-12 education is as important as college.

Completely false.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Completely false.

Ok. The settles it then!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Why should everyone pay for something most people don't use or need?

Or even finish.

[RGinWA 816]

More war, more guns, more expensive education...repeat...more war, more guns...

Cycle is perfect.

[Abell 11]

if you want to get into prestige university and you are smart enough to pass their tests then you shouldn't pay for it, if you do not pass all the tests but still want to go there then you pay for it, then it goes lower from here, next college will have their tests and if you can't pass that one you try another one with lower level and so on until you find one you can get in unless you don't even want to go to college

and who's gonna pay for it? very simple, if you finish good college and became professional in certain specialty and find a good job you gonna pay more taxes since you salary will be bigger compare to if you don't get education and gonna work for minimum wage. this should be beneficial for entire country

I believe US is not even in the top list of countries with most educated population at this moment, and it is understandable, who would want to pay so much for college education if they can have a pizza delivery job right now

[Darnell 8,479]

desperately poor immigrants - huh? apologies - that's illegal aliens, working under the radar.

Inclusion of illegal aliens 'for the counting' makes this entire article back at post #1 a massive fail.

[Peikko 1,575]

College education should never have become something that everyone requires to get decent employment. It's completely senseless. Most people with US degrees have no more need of them in their daily work place than they have for a chocolate teapot. While a college education should be available to anyone with the brains and desire to pursue it, most people just need a general education. If the emphasis was changed, college could be free and accessible to everyone that wanted and deserved to go regardless of financial background. Misguided management policies on hiring requirements are partly to blame, and a weird skew that led to a belief that being 'college educated' was meaningful in and of itself. It's not.

[JohnR! 5,495]

College education should never have become something that everyone requires to get decent employment. It's completely senseless. Most people with US degrees have no more need of them in their daily work place than they have for a chocolate teapot. While a college education should be available to anyone with the brains and desire to pursue it, most people just need a general education. If the emphasis was changed, college could be free and accessible to everyone that wanted and deserved to go regardless of financial background. Misguided management policies on hiring requirements are partly to blame, and a weird skew that led to a belief that being 'college educated' was meaningful in and of itself. It's not.

Then there is this...

[Karee 4,191]

Then there is this...

Sounds like the author of that article is cool with hanging out at the house and generating offspring for the ol man. She wont need to know how to spell to do that.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Sounds like the author of that article is cool with hanging out at the house and generating offspring for the ol man. She wont need to know how to spell to do that.

And there there is this one...

[Karee 4,191]

And there there is this one...

Who's the bigger dumba$$ there? The one who paid to have that etched on his arm, or the one who put it there? I'd say it's a toss up.