2016 Postmortem

Bread and Circus

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32. What a disingenuous asshole. Bill and Hillary are the 1% of 1% of 1% of 1%

Fri Jan 22, 2016, 08:21 PM

Jan 2016

Sending their grandchild and the children of people like them to college for free is a drop in the ocean for one thing. For another, I am sure their grand children and other rich people will send their kids to top name Ivy League schools for another.

I hate their typing of campaigning which is just a bunch of fear, uncertainty, doubt, and misleading hogwash.

Fuck them.

There is just so much wrong with their statements it makes me rage.

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Bill: “People like me and Hillary can afford to go to college. The government can’t help everyone." [View all] JackRiddler Jan 2016 OP

Could he afford it back then? vi5 Jan 2016 #1

Back then college was affordable. Vinca Jan 2016 #6

He was a Rhodes Scholar (eom) Samantha Jan 2016 #70

Don't think that is what he meant, but it's not like folks care about accuracy. Hoyt Jan 2016 #2

Post removed Post removed Jan 2016 #5

You're advancing a strange idea of accuracy. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #10

He did not say, "if you can't afford it, tough s*&t." Clearly, he said tax dollars should Hoyt Jan 2016 #20

I guess he should learn to be less tone-deaf. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #31

No he is not. He's essentially advocating a means test. Jeeez. Hoyt Jan 2016 #36

Essentially, perhaps, the quote comes across as JackRiddler Jan 2016 #37

Stop pointing and reading one word at a time. Things might make more sense to you. Hoyt Jan 2016 #42

Stop mischaracterizing what I say and address the issue. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #45

You Just Make It Free Up To A Certain Income Level, Then Decrease The Subsidy Incrementally CorporatistNation Jan 2016 #62

remember how Bernie's paying for it Enrique Jan 2016 #3

Not what he was implying at all... Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2016 #4

How do you know what he was implying? JackRiddler Jan 2016 #7

He was stating rich people don't need Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2016 #13

The Sanders proposal is... JackRiddler Jan 2016 #15

exactly grasswire Jan 2016 #79

Yale and Harvard aren't public schools notadmblnd Jan 2016 #26

Also, how are you going to define rich? JackRiddler Jan 2016 #38

Rich kids don't go to public college. onecaliberal Jan 2016 #77

When will Hillary realize that Bill always sabotages her ambitions? reformist2 Jan 2016 #8

Soap opera. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #39

This is such an incredible distortion of what he said. Bleacher Creature Jan 2016 #9

Has the New York Times misquoted him? JackRiddler Jan 2016 #12

You're purposely misreading this. How special! MeNMyVolt Jan 2016 #11

Did Big Brother raise the chocolate ration again? JackRiddler Jan 2016 #14

He doesn't think that poor people should be paying for rich people's college. MeNMyVolt Jan 2016 #17

How is it that free universities were once considered affordable public goods JackRiddler Jan 2016 #29

please explain how -- in any scenario -- poor people would be paying.. grasswire Jan 2016 #80

To be honest, his point is that there are people who CAN afford to pay for college Maedhros Jan 2016 #16

Thank you. Bleacher Creature Jan 2016 #18

Actually, a very cogent reply. MeNMyVolt Jan 2016 #24

Bernie's plan pertains to assisting students attending public colleges Samantha Jan 2016 #30

It's really a stupid argument. [n/t] Maedhros Jan 2016 #65

Not at all when complaints are heard from voters they don't want to pay Samantha Jan 2016 #69

Wow - that's not what he said Empowerer Jan 2016 #19

Trump's kids aren't going to public schools... JackRiddler Jan 2016 #28

The point is "means testing" complicates things beyond belief and creates lines in the sand that... Bread and Circus Jan 2016 #33

Post removed Post removed Jan 2016 #21

+1 Bleacher Creature Jan 2016 #23

Could they have afforded High School and Elementry School also? dogman Jan 2016 #22

AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service demmiblue Jan 2016 #25

Funnily enough, I would have voted "LEAVE IT" JackRiddler Jan 2016 #27

What a disingenuous asshole. Bill and Hillary are the 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% Bread and Circus Jan 2016 #32

They just don't get it. No surprise from the man behind "welfare reform" Chathamization Jan 2016 #34

I think they do get it Kalidurga Jan 2016 #35

Thanks, that's another good reason. And there are plenty more. Chathamization Jan 2016 #44

Jesus Haploid Christ in combat boots. hifiguy Jan 2016 #40

Educate the poor silenttigersong Jan 2016 #41

And there ends the war against poverty. When billy was jwirr Jan 2016 #43

His bio said scholarships and student loans notadmblnd Jan 2016 #53

Wow...Way to miss the point. Lucinda Jan 2016 #46

Yeah, yeah, I get this sophistry. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #48

There is not an unlimited amount of financial resources in this country at this time Lucinda Jan 2016 #57

How about you make the rich pay by taxing them? JackRiddler Jan 2016 #58

I'm cool with that. Get it through congress. I think Lucinda Jan 2016 #67

Look, you are missing a big point. Almost every social program jwirr Jan 2016 #74

There would be money if the rich were bothering to participate jwirr Jan 2016 #72

There would also be money if we stopped massive military spending Lucinda Jan 2016 #73

Mostly because every president since 1980 has been fighting jwirr Jan 2016 #75

What I don't understand... tarheelsunc Jan 2016 #50

I don't get it either. I'm also seeing people complaining about the town hall Lucinda Jan 2016 #54

Totally constructed argument. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #59

By miles. ucrdem Jan 2016 #51

In that case what does he think of Social Security? Medicare? jwirr Jan 2016 #71

1/2 point for willful misreading. ucrdem Jan 2016 #47

Whatever. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #49

Come on, it wasn't a good OP. Just let it die. MeNMyVolt Jan 2016 #52

It doesn't need to be true ucrdem Jan 2016 #55

Oh! So cut to the deep! I fear I breathe my last. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #60

I don't think he meant that, but SusanCalvin Jan 2016 #56

Not just the wording but the clear support of the status quo system. JackRiddler Jan 2016 #61

In other words you intentionally misread it and started a thread to bash the Clintons. ucrdem Jan 2016 #63

No. How about I don't care what you think? JackRiddler Jan 2016 #64

But the government can bail out every criminal Wall St. bank brentspeak Jan 2016 #66

Some people can afford to save up for their retirement DBoon Jan 2016 #68

"We should have money to put into jobs and infrastructure.” Zorra Jan 2016 #76

The results are in, and it's a skunkin'! Lizzie Poppet Jan 2016 #78

Someone's gone bekloppt! JackRiddler Jan 2016 #81