Obama enlists top-flight comedians to push his laughable “free” community college plan
State of the Union (SOTU) addresses tend to bring out the grandiosity in presidents—like when President Nixon announced universal health insurance coverage in 1974, or when President Clinton announced universal health insurance coverage in 1994, or when President Obamaannounced universal health insurance coverage in 2010 that would let Americans “keep their doctor and their plan” and also “reduce costs and premiums.” (About that…)
Unsurprisingly, after being routed in the most recent midterms, President Obama used his last SOTU to put together three big, appealing ideas: college, free, and community. Free community college!
The president is now touring the country promoting the plan, calling it “an idea whose time has come.” The $60 billion program’s time has certainly not come in a Republican-controlled Congress, however, so, as the president’s domestic policy advisor Cecilia Muñoz acknowledges, the president will try to gin up support outside of the Capitol in hopes of pressuring lawmakers into getting on board.
As part of the public relations push, eminent comedians Louis CK and Chris Rock appeared in a White House video this week urging Americans to “join the movement” to “make two years of community college as free and universal as high school is today.”
https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/11/obamas-grandiose-plan-will-give-communit
If I’m going to pay for everyone to attend Community College, will I be allowed to put achievement benchmarks on performance as I do for my child!!??
How about mandatory attendance; minimum 3.0 GPA; etc.
Nothing in this world is free, the taxpayer gets screwed in the end.
“One year of Watergate is enough!” – Dick Nixon, 1974 SOTU