I saw the dumbest thing ever on my Facebook Feed the other day.  It was so dumb, I was able to close my computers lid for the day knowing that nothing dumber could possibly be said.  The woman said "If everyone has a college degree then college degrees would be meaningless".  Wow. What could the world possibly gain from having smarter people around?

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Here's the deal, even I'll admit that the President's goal of having two years of free community college is mostly just a headline-grabber. First off, you'd have to get it past a do nothing congress who only wakes from their slumber often enough to try to make the President look bad.  Secondly, it kind of doesn't go far enough.  The idea is to pay for the TUITION for community college, but that only represents a little more than 20% of the costs of attending.  Add to that, a requirement that you have to be in college at least "half the time" and before you know it, you're eating Ramen, working three jobs and sleeping four hours a night.  Sure, a lot of people have done it that way, but let's get a bit more reasonable here.

There are various people who will come out against this for reasons that will make me want to pull my hair out ("I didn't get it for free-so no one else should").  We have to remember though, it's harder than ever to get by and the jobs that are available are highly skilled positions.  If we don't step up and give the kids out there a hand up, we're just going to be a nation of people serving each other fast food while our infrastructure crumbles and the rest of the world outpaces us.

So, in short, the idea that two years of community college for free is an okay idea. Let's turn it into a GREAT idea.

 

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