The President of the US just attacked Community Colleges

[Coventina]

Of course that entitled prick doesn't understand community colleges.

And of course he'd be against one of the great equity generators in our country.



https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/03/donald-trump-community-colleges/556976/?utm_source=atlfb

[Demovictory9]

1. He is a fool

[bigbrother05]

2. Don't see the difference btw CC & Voc School, ask your Sec'y of Edu...

Oh, never mind

[gratuitous]

3. SOP for the GOP

What are the ways people can get ahead in society, improve their standing, and leave a better legacy for their descendants? In no particular order, there's education, good nutrition, and a living wage job that doesn't consume every last waking hour of a person's life. What are the prime targets of most Republican roll-backs affecting individuals? Education, nutrition and living wage jobs.

It's not a coincidence.

[Angry Dragon]

6. I really like your post

[Volaris]

8. Yep. The GOP has decided that being middle class is not conductive to their electoral prospects,

so to hell with the middle class, then. If you get yourself rich enough to donate to their party, then great. If not, then you can STAY POOR AND DIE (because they ALSO know that the more poor and alive people there are, the less Republican votes there will be).

If these idiots in applalachia would rather let the GOP kill them for the sake of a 'coal job' instead of working for a federal union wage in the Department of Energy solar panel factories that COULD be built instead, then I suppose the rest of us will just have to wait...eventually, enough of them will die that we can get what we require from our Government and Congress.

[muntrv]

4. Says the Dean of Trump U.

[PearliePoo2]

5. What an ignorant asshole! EVERY FUCKING DAY IT'S SOMETHING!

Like Mike Barnicle says on 'Morning Joe', "It's exhausting...totally exhausting."

[procon]

19. That's exactly how I feel.

It's so depressing when I think how much work the next FAIRLY elected Democratic president will have to do just to restore the basic norms of government functions, let alone undo Trump's mess, before SHE can pursue her own policies.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

7. Every fucking day his ignorance is on full display... nt

[Blue_true]

9. Must of the nurses in the country got their degrees at CCs.

Go into any hospital, for every 4 year degreed nurse, there are 2-4 nurses that got their certificate from a CC, they are vital to the operation of hospitals.

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. My mother got her RN's license at a California Community College and needed no student loans.

California's Community Colleges have been providing affordable educations to Californians for decades. My mother left her job in a factory and went to Nursing School at a Community College in the 70's and it cost her about $150 in fees per semester, and it took her two years to complete the program once she completed all her prerequisites for admission into the program. She invited my husband's sister from Virginia to come live with her because she always wanted to go to nursing school but it would cost her $10,000 in tuition to go in Virginia. She was working as a nurse's aide in a developmentally disabled institution in VA. She came and lasted six months, and was homesick and returned home. She was raised in the country and missed her mom and couldn't assimilate I guess. She never became a nurse, but returned to her job as a nurse's aide for the next 30 years in a low wage job bathing and cleaning up after patients.

[Blue_true]

13. My oldest living brother was in the hospital recently.

The RN's, Nurse's aides, Occupational Therapits do most of the physical work, checking charts and patient comfort, and giving medicines, the 4 year and higher Degreed Nurses are really spread out and pretty much interface with the others and do things like setting and removing IV's and readjusting dosages if doctors request that. Was amazing to see it all up close, had never before gotten a chance.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Brian Williams covered this last night on his MSNBC show.

He went to a community college himself and was irritated.

[HipChick]

15. Senator Tillis himself, has a big Community College background..

He went to Chattanooga State Community College....would be nice if he stood up and corrected his leader...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. What else do you expect from an ignoramus like Trump?

One who was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

[edhopper]

14. And now a third of the country

also will say Community Colleges are bad.

[Coventina]

16. Exactly. Red areas will continue their work to dismantle their CCs.

It is happening right now in AZ, this just gives more justification to continue and accelerate the process.

[Ms. Toad]

17. It's apparently not the first time he's said it.

And, people have tried to correct him.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tv/trump-doesnt-know-what-a-community-college-is/vp-AAvh8Gb

[Coventina]

18. Thank you for that link. I was unaware of the previous vile lies he'd been telling.

Just when I think he can't get any worse, he finds a way...

[Ms. Toad]

21. I wasn't aware until last night

His comment about community colleges was pointed out, and I couldn't stand the thought of listening to him for potentially an hour to hear the context for what he had actually said. So I started searching for someone who had excerpted that snippet - and found the article I linked to about his prior statements about community colleges.

Too hard to keep track of all of his lies, and how many times he has repeated them.

[procon]

20. Trump wants to be identified with workers, even though he stiffs them,

steals their wages and keeps them from fighting for better working conditions. He thinks the modern workforce is uneducated and relies of manual labor and outdated kill sets, like coal miners, because he's stuck in the past.

To be competitive, to keep abreast of rapidly changing technology, to be prepared for the future and a world that is already demanding a vast array of knowledge, vocational training won't be as much in demand as it was in the past.

[raccoon]

22. Trump is hopelessly ignorant and doesn't give a toot. NT

[Initech]

23. God he is such a fucking dumbass.

[demigoddess]

24. every. single. day. yesterday he didn't understand how the Post Office worked and today

it is Community Colleges. What will it be tomorrow? We need someone smarter in the WH