MINORITY FORUM BRINGS OUT DEMOCRATIC FRONTRUNNER’S “INNER SOCIALIST”
We’re sure Hillary Clinton‘s advisors were quite pleased with themselves when their candidate offered up a nifty “progressive” sound bite at this week’s Democratic presidential forum in Iowa.
Wait … there was a Democratic forum last night?
Yes. While the rest of America was watching college football’s national championship, Democrats gathered in Iowa for the curiously christened “Brown and Black” forum on the campus of Drake University.
During this forum – which was geared toward minorities – Clinton said she would “disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline” if elected president and replace it with a “cradle to college pipeline.”
And yes … college would be free.
Ah, liberals. They really love their pipelines … well, unless there’s oil or gas in them.
Anyway, while Clinton’s peeps patted themselves on the back for this clever phraseology, we couldn’t help but think of the extent to which this “incentivized dependency” approach to government has failed this country … at an unspeakable cost.
To be clear: Big government doesn’t want you to make it to the cradle, but assuming you get there (or hop the border) … the far leftists like Clinton want to make sure you don’t have to lift a finger for as long as you live.
The American Dream used to be all about getting a good job, buying a house, raising a family and putting your kids through college. Today it’s all about staying on the government dole at all costs … while expanding the horizons of entitlement via all manner of absurdity.
Forget working for a living … just stand in your “safe space” and let the government shower you (and as many dependents as you can crank out) with other people’s money.
“Oh beautiful for spacious skies …”
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Free College would be the end of college as a useful education experience.
How so? It works in countries all over the world. Weren’t you a gov’t and state employee forever? Why is socialism good when it pays your way, but bad for everyone else?
Same reason presidential golfing trips are only bad when Obama’s doing 18 holes.
“18 holes” — isn’t that the number of his Secret Service protection detail? Just askin’ …..
The Colonel went oddly silent when his complete depenence on the state is brought up. Be a proud socialist, Colonel!
Yeah – no, not so much. I try to go with a reasoned response rather than ad hominem.
Hi. It’s the socialist who doesn’t want others to benefit. Why is that?
Being (accurately) called a product of socialism isn’t ad hominem or even a put down, Colonel. You shouldn’t feel bad for living off the taxpayers your entire life. We should all be so lucky. Enjoy your taxpayer funded retirement. Enjoy all the checks you get from the government. Enjoy your college football. You are perfect proof that socialism is a good thing. You should be shouting it from the roof tops, Colonel!
Except I haven’t “lived of the government my whole life”, I owned a construction company, worked for a computer firm, and taught leadership as a consultant all in the private sector. Will you draw social security – mine will be offset by my military retirement (if I live long enough to draw it). Do you have kids in public education, drive on roads… guess what, you’re not a socialist either.
Like I said you should be proud. Your whole identity seems to be tied to the title the government loaned you for years of being a good, obedient servant to the State. I wonder how many more tax dollars went through your construction company? Did your the computer company do any work with the government? Look how much taxpayer money has done for you during your entire life. Just accept it and help promote socialism. You are a perfect poster boy for how socialism can benefit Americans and their families. Embrace it….”Colonel”.
It works in countries all over the world because they only let the very best students in. That won’t happen here, it will become a place to hang out for four (or eight) years rather than learning a skill and going to work. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-do-european-countries-afford-free-college-2015-6
“That won’t happen here”
It will if you make it.
Yeah, good luck with that – the average kid now takes six years to graduate from college.
Why couldn’t you teach them better? You didn’t give us a good return on out tax dollars as a socialist employee of the state.
Not sure when I became a “socialist employee of the state” – how does that work? Is it because I chose to serve in the military? Or chose to work in higher education?
Do you recieve any pay from the state? From tax payer money? Yes. Congrats! You’ve benefited from socialism!
If he went to public school as a kid then it’s pretty much cradle to grave socialism beneficiary.
Yep. The ‘Colonel’ is a complete product of socialism. Hell, he even still goes by his socialist gov’t designation…Colonel. But his greedy little ass doesn’t want anybody else to benefit from the state like he has his entire life. Don’t worry ‘product of the state’, nobody is suggesting your payouts from the state are diminished or disrupted.
Be happy for you to benefit the way I have. March your ass down to the nearest recruiter and sign up.
You’re an economic system illiterate.
Socialism is a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies.
Solely governmental functions (raising armies for instance) do not constitute “socialism”. People who work in those solely governmental functions are not socialist.
Like education and college sports? Don’t real free-market advocates believe all of those should be run by private companies? You are one confused beneficiary of the state. Just to be clear…I don’t have any problem with you being a product of the state. I just believe those benefits should be expanded to all Americans. If we can spend over a billion dollars on lottery tickets, we can ensure there is no tuition for state colleges and we can provide single-payer health insurance for all.
If we all work for the government we can all be rich and secure.
You’ve well defined the slippery slope, kudos. (seriously!)
That’s because most schools worry more about standardized tests and pushing students to go to college than helping them figure out what they want to do with their lives and get their shit together before they actually go to college. If a student changes what degree they are shooting for three times then yes it will take more than 4 years.
College is currently 100% unreasonable in its pricing and people line up out the doors to go to them not knowing what the hell they want to do with their lives, so I’d say indecision and light class loads aren’t strictly tied to affordability. They are tied to life circumstances and how prepared a student is for pursuing a career.
So going to any college is a negative. I would much rather my socialist tax dollars go to students wanting to further their education, than go to the retirement of a career gov’t pencil pusher. Wouldn’t you?
What if they’re going to college to become a career gov’t pencil pusher though?
Moron.
No, a college education is a great thing. I encourage students to pursue STEM, Business and substantive degrees every day. However, you don’t need a college degree to drive a UPS truck and you can make a good living doing so. I’d hate to have my bridges designed by a Lower Richland grad though.
I just enjoy a product of socialism trying to wiggle around the fact. Embrace it. Socialism has provided you with a decent life as a career gov’t employee. Why do you want others to benefit?
*don’t
” I’d hate to have my bridges designed by a Lower Richland grad though”
Why not make that the new code phrase on Fitsnews for scatterbrained incompetency.
“it will become a place to hang out for four (or eight) years rather than learning a skill and going to work.”
It’s already close to that….lots of young people walking around with degrees, huge debt, & working in a job that requires neither.
Absolutely true
How much of that can be contributed to the surge in recent years of for profit schools?
Not enough to matter aside from the fact that if not for government guaranteed loans they would never be able to bury themselves in debt to either a government supported or private institution.
I don’t know what Hillary proposes, but what Will linked to is Obama’s plan for community colleges. Two years free with federal and state funds, so a state has to opt in. The student has to be enrolled at least half-time, carry at least a 2.5 average and come from a family making less than 200,000.
NO free rides for you freeloaders.Get 2 or 3 jobs and pay for it like WE did.
How many writing jobs are you up to now? Got enough saved for the rugrats yet?
Baby boomers being baby boomers. Flip rides state job and welfare all his life, wants to pull up the ladder to make sure no one else can do the same.
I worked hard for my degrees.Played by the rules.Often worked 2 or 3 jobs so my children didn’t have any student loan debt.I am an independent contractor now and life is good.
No freebies.
Worked hard for your degrees from what state university?
Played by the rules at your state job? Took as much welfare as the law would allow?
Independent contractor, i.e. chronically unemployed?
Bullshit, you probably stole that line from some moron on Maury.
I believe you may be an independent contractor, I don’t know anyone who’d hire your dumb ass.
True. They have to have some skin in the game. Now, subsidized with specific payback to society afterwards – like AmericaCorps – I could live with that.
There are a lot of countries offering no tuition college education to their citizens; and they are not suffering the problems you wing nuts say we will. In fact, most are ranked ahead of the US in Forbes list of best countries for business.
“Good place to business” does not equal “free tuition”. In fact, the US has among the highest percentage of graduates per capita in the world. http://www.tcf.org/blog/detail/graph-u.s.-college-graduation-rates-are-rising-but-the-rest-of-the-world-is
Instead we get socialist college football, paid for by the tax payers. How about we take some of SC’s highest paid employees, football coaches, salarys and put it towards college tuition for all residents who want to attend college?
Free college just perpetuates the “everyone needs to go to college” line of shit that fucks young adults over, and if they don’t fix the exorbitant tuition rates it will skyrocket the national debt. Just fund universities a little better, lock down their tuition rates, and force them to make due with their budget. At least that way the worst a kid has to worry about is wasting 4 years of their life, not 4 years of their life and 40 years of their financial well being.
As long as all your socialist dollars go to football and sports, because that really raises the level of education.
Sports are actually a way to bring people together and worth the investment.
Socialists like you are nerds and weirdo’s-never were part of anything.Look at Bernie.
But it’s dreaded socialism and you support it. Bernie just wants you to get more back from your your tax dollars, beside an over paid football coach who quits you mid-season while collecting a ridiculous amount of your tax dollars.
Bernie is a dangerous communist.
Flip loves his socialist sports team though, even though all they managed to do this year was beat Neuter Dame in a lesser bowl game.
…and you are a college sports loving socialist. Good for you!
Like how you were saying such bring people together things about Dabo? Nice!!!!
IMO a majority of the money public university sports teams earn should go back to the college, but that’s just me.
Democrats use code words for everything.Abortion is ‘choice’.Taking guns away is ‘gun safety’.
Free education is really ‘brainwash minorities/illegals for votes’.
….and Socialist College football is just enjoying freedom!
You must have been in the glee club or played checkers after school?
No, I paid attention. Unlike you. You don’t even realize you are already a socialist. Ask Spurrier…when he gets done talking about horny preachers.
School’s for Fools!!!!
And don’t forget, Bernie Sanders is still around, breathing down the back of her neck in the polls. And whispering his socialistic ideas in her ear.
She is just pandering to keep up with Bernie.
Ugh…what a horrid thought on both sides.
Socialist? Like college football? How scary!
Yes indeed.NOBODY in America knows a damn thing about Comrade Sanders.Wait until Hillary is indicted and middle America finds out how dangerous this man is.
And, I’d like Hillary to go away permanently, hopefully behind locked prison bars!
I like the democrat party motto for the the upcoming democrat primaries in the race.
“We have a full-fledged socialist and then we have Bernie Sanders.”
Did you enjoy last night biggest celebration of socialism in America….College Football Championships!
The democrat partisans and the MSM are ignoring the fact they have a criminal in their midst.
At least they caught on that a Canadian is running for the GOP nomination.
I wonder if Trump supporters know they have a liberal in their midst. A Clinton supporting liberal who voted for and gave money to Hillary…
Just wait till Will’s passel of kids get closer to entering college. He’ll be singing a different tune, unless he wins the big lottery this week.
No shit’
It won’t be long and we will run out of other people’s money.
It’s OK. The Federal government will keep you afloat, as usual.
College already is free for many of these people, do you think these lifetime welfare recipients are paying to go to USCe or Clemson? The government is handing out grants to pay their expense plus more.