Sanders and Progressives Unveil Bill to Cancel Student Debt
This latest bit of idiocy will accomplish a perverse bit of politicking for Senator Sanders (and others): It will shore up Trump votes from fair-minded people of all political stripes around the country. It is so wrong-headed, wasteful, and utterly unfair that only a delirious Prog could even countenance it, let alone support it.
But as I've said before in this space, there is one "free" college initiative (if you ignore the fact that the Congress has no legitimate power to play in this playground) that would be supported by Democrats, Independents, AND Republicans. That proposal would be to provide "free" college, on a MERIT basis, in State colleges only, to the top 25% of high school grads in each state, as measured by a competitive battery of "objective" tests (no essays on how wretched my up-bringing has been).
I am inspired by the noble academics in - of all places - New York City, who have maintained a merit-based program to fill elite public high schools with students who have demonstrated their abilities in a written test. As one can imagine, the Progs in New York (led. by the Mayor) are spitting mad at the continuance of this program that DOES NOT provide guaranteed spaces to Blacks, Hispanics, girls, or any other class of "oppressed" students.
So IT IS POSSIBLE to do such a thing.
I am an old, white, veteran, Conservatarian man, and I would JUMP on board such a program, exactly as described above, even though it is unconstitutional.
Free college...at STATE schools...to the top students in the State. How could anyone oppose that?
This latest bit of idiocy will accomplish a perverse bit of politicking for Senator Sanders (and others): It will shore up Trump votes from fair-minded people of all political stripes around the country. It is so wrong-headed, wasteful, and utterly unfair that only a delirious Prog could even countenance it, let alone support it.
But as I've said before in this space, there is one "free" college initiative (if you ignore the fact that the Congress has no legitimate power to play in this playground) that would be supported by Democrats, Independents, AND Republicans. That proposal would be to provide "free" college, on a MERIT basis, in State colleges only, to the top 25% of high school grads in each state, as measured by a competitive battery of "objective" tests (no essays on how wretched my up-bringing has been).
I am inspired by the noble academics in - of all places - New York City, who have maintained a merit-based program to fill elite public high schools with students who have demonstrated their abilities in a written test. As one can imagine, the Progs in New York (led. by the Mayor) are spitting mad at the continuance of this program that DOES NOT provide guaranteed spaces to Blacks, Hispanics, girls, or any other class of "oppressed" students.
So IT IS POSSIBLE to do such a thing.
I am an old, white, veteran, Conservatarian man, and I would JUMP on board such a program, exactly as described above, even though it is unconstitutional.
Free college...at STATE schools...to the top students in the State. How could anyone oppose that?