Some dad had the opportunity to embarrass both Senator Warren and his daughter at the same time and took it.
Of course, he’s right.
Warren tried to explain her plan, there is no need to do that either.
I know exactly what will happen the week after the Democrats open a Dakota Access Pipeline size money tube directly into the university system and cut ou the student and parents as a middle man.
Pournelle’s iron law of bureaucracy will kick into full effect.
The Iron law of bureaucracy states “In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.”
Mark my words, this will happen:
Colleges and Universities: “We need more money.”
Taxpayers: “We just gave you a shit load of money.”
Colleges and Universities: “But we need money for labs and professors.”
Taxpayers: “Fire some of those useless fucking 937 deans you have that don’t teach a single class between them.”
Colleges and Universities: “We can’t do that. We need a Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, a Dean of Authentic Ethnic Dining, a Dean of Transgender Menstruation Supplies, a Dean of Campus Safe Spaces, a Dean of Anti-Racism and Post-Colonial Housing, a Dean of … etc.”
Taxpayers: “Why doesn’t the government fix this?”
Senator who has a wife/child/sibling that is a Dean: “Ok, we’ll raise your taxes to give the schools more money.”
Every College in America will end up with a faculty of nothing but administrators that don’t teach and one old codger of a professor that can’t be fired because he has tenure and is too stubborn to die.
I’ve said before, it may not happen right away, but when the sugar daddy government is paying for your education you WILL study only those subjects that further the governments goals. Every student will get an assessment in middle school or earlier to determine what field they’re best suited for. Each student will then be schooled for that position. You don’t want to be a grade 86 bureaucrat for the rest of your life, tough, thats the only “education” the government will pay for.
Note to university personnel, socialist dictatorships don’t treat academics all that well after the revolution.
I paid for my Bachelor’s as I went: I didn’t take out a single loan until I began graduate school. Even so, I already paid off my student loans. I am getting screwed under her plan, because I was responsible.
That dad is awesome.
The only people who support this “government should pay for….” schemes are the ones this dad mentions. The ones that pissed away their money for luxuries, then when the bill for college comes, claim it is unfair that they cannot afford to go to a top school. (Etc…)
One question to ask anyone voting for the Warren/Sanders/AOC scheme is:
“Would you knowingly lower your child’s standard of living so that a neighbor’s child can attend a college they did not earn, would you?”
Then watch the contortions as they try to explain about how that is not what is going to happen.
Now imagine you’re paying your student loans off right now, and if Thin Lizzie gets elected, instead of being out from under student loans, you’re paying the equivalent of student loans forever.
Spread that out: the people who went to welding school or air conditioner repair, linemen for the electric company, or any skill that’s in demand never took on the burden of student loans, but if Lizzie or any of them gets elected, they’re burdened with student “loans” forever.
Anybody that lives responsibly gets punished.
“Anybody that lives responsibly gets punished.”
That is not a bug of socialism. It is a feature.