If we elect as president either Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, they promise to forgive almost all student loan debt, a move guaranteed to make college unaffordable, . Warren takes her brilliant education policy a step further by promising to allow a 9-year-old transgender student to vet her nominees for Secretary of Education.
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21 replies on “Berning Academia and the Warren College Education”
The “Bubble Of Suck” is the most amazing and succinct definition of everything that is wrong with our elected officials.
They decried the trickle down economics claiming that companies would just spend the money on themselves.
They whine about the tax cuts for the rich, that the people with money paying it all to the government should not have it to spend.
Then they propose to give a bunch of money to people that never had it, thinking they’ll do something different… like go into more debt to buy a house they’re not ready to afford.
We have a huge skills gap in America. Apprenticeship programs for skilled trades are really cheap. And you can earn a good paycheck upon graduation.
My older son (14) wants to be a chef when he grows up. He’ll attend community college to get an Associate’s in culinary arts (and I’ll insist he get another Associate’s in business management, if I’m paying!). After that, he wants go through the Broadmoor’s renowned apprenticeship program for three years — and it’s a paid apprenticeship. So long as he follows this program *he* dreamed up, he can stay at home, rent-free. By 23, he’ll be highly trained, experienced, and with some very impressive names on his CV. He’ll also have zero debt and (if he’s smart) a nice sum of money socked away in the bank.
I can’t think of a better way to send him off into the world.
My 14yo son also wants to be a chef. Though, at this time, his plan is to enter the military for his culinary training. My older son (16) found a true passion and skill in woodworking. The high school he now attends has a program that will have him trained and ready to make a living wage at graduation. It’s a sad thing that we had to move outside of the more populated metro area to find such a program in a high school.
These days, most high schools are supposedly preparing kids for college but I can tell you that my daughter who graduated in ’16 was no where near ready for college after high school and if I were to expect my sons to go to college, I know there’s no way they’d be ready, either. I, for one, am grateful that none of mine have had any desire to waste money on the current American college/university system.
About a year and a half ago, the house across the street from me was up for sale. I looked out and a realtor I know from church was showing the house to a couple that seemed about our age with what looked like a teenager in tow. Being a nosy SOB, I took the dog for a walk and “caught” them on the way out. They were actually looking at the house for the 20 year old. He had started working for the local power company right out of HS and had, by the time he graduated HS, also achieved his associates from the local CC. So he went in having completed some of his training.
His parents were taking him to look at houses because he was banking so much money living at home and working OT that they wanted him to buy a house while the market was still down. No college debt and he had cleared 70K that year as a 20 year old.
But you gotta go to college, right?
Burnie Squanders and Pocahountus…
Perhaps the entitlement mentality drilled into this young, impressionable, new crop of voters will result in a Sanders-Warren ticket.
This segment would surely make some learned heads explode in academia; if they only saw it.
So if the student loans are forgiven and these folks go in debt for a house, are they going to want that debt written off as well?
@Steve…..OK…..Booomer…..
Great! When can I get my refund for the years 1985 through 1989?
When are we ever going to get an exit strategy for this endless leftist war on education? Just think of the total number of lives ruined.
Warren stating that she would abdicate her authority in selecting a cabinet member reminds me of the old Naval story.
A Navy Capt was given a choice of where to pull into port for Liberty for his crew. He put it up to the crew as a vote. He was relieved of command since he was unable to make command decisions.
Seems like Colleges and Universities are more involved in real estate than education these days. They should have plenty of money to expand into the student loan business and as FG suggests, be on the hook for the bad loans.
I’m fine w/ loans for school. But it should be issued by the college and the college should be on the hook for bad loans.
The 9yr old trans is like the vegetarian cat.
Student loans are a massive wealth transfer scam from the middle class to the Democrat Party. W/ the college taking their tidy cut.
Or an even simpler solution – forgive all student loans, with the bill being paid by the universities who made these predatory loans
“It tells me that we don’t need a Department of Education” – that sums it up perfectly.
And unspoken, how does the press not end Warren over this? BY that rationale, why not replace all journos with 9 year olds? Wait a minute, that might be an improvement
Yes. Yes it would. Not because they are less whiny, but because they would be small enough to take behind the barn and whip the whiny out of them.
The bucket analogy used by Scott is not quite correct. You take a bucket of water that leaks, dump what is left on the the other side and expect there to be more water in the pool. There are administration costs.