Mixed Reviews of Obama Plan to Keep Down College Costs

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In a campus visit Friday morning, President Obama outlined his plans to keep college tuition costs in check, getting a wildly enthusiastic response at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Students cheered his oratory on the importance of a college degree, expanded student aid, affordable college costs — and, of course, his many references to Michigan, a key swing state.

But out in the world, the reaction to the president’s proposals — tying colleges’ eligibility for certain federal aid programs to their affordability and outcomes — was far more tempered.

Most people stressed that they, too, wanted to make college education more affordable. But when it came to the particulars of the plan — and paying for it — there was no consensus.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/education/obamas-plan-to-control-college-costs-gets-mixed-reviews.html

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1. I know how it can be done....tax the rich...sooooo simple...

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2. and another reason to re-elect Obama or else Gingrich will make poor kids the rich man's slave.

In fact the Wash. Post has a story revealing (from a 1995 Vanity Fair profile) that Gingrich didn't have a work-study job and paid for college from his biological dad's money. Oh, when Newt was an undergrad, he'd already married his high school geometry teacher, and she paid for Newt's college years all the way to his Ph.D!

(also posted http://www.democraticunderground.com/101438047)

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3. IF we truly wanted affordable education we would have it...

What far too many people in this nation want is more for themselves and less for everyone else. Sure their kids deserve that inexpensive education... but once they've grown up... how dare the government try to raise taxes to pay for schools!



Unfortunately we get what we pay for, in a lot of ways.