The Liberal Answer to Everything: Spend More Money

Dick Baynton
Dick Baynton

During the Democratic ‘debate’ on October 13th, Senator Bernie Sanders nailed down a plank in his platform of paid tuition for all students attending a state college or university. What a great idea; the rich people divert their earnings to  government that filters the funds to high school seniors who received free educations from their local high school. It will be called a tax on income and investments over and above what a reasonable person needs (IIOAWRPN tax). The government will decide what a reasonable person needs in a Bernie Sanders administration.

Here is some interesting information from government and private sources that has been ignored by Bernie and his liberal socialist supporters. Surveys, research and government statistics show that there are at least a million individuals with college degrees that are career parking attendants, waiters and waitresses, janitors, landscapers, bartenders and retail clerks; many earning minimum wages.

Career parking attendants can look forward to parking driverless cars and professional janitors can do research on rotary brooms. Now estimate how many of these graduates still owe some of the $1.3 trillion college debt held by 40 million students. It is reasonable to assume that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars of delinquent debt of deadbeat former ‘students.’

Between now and 2025, an estimated 2.1 million young adults will be awarded college diplomas each year; a total of 21 million bright-eyed job seekers. According to one set of demand figures, there will be jobs for about 800,000 requiring college degrees or about 4% of career-oriented graduates.

The result is that a college education will hold little advantage for increased lifetime incomes and the college graduate will be waiting in line for the same job as the person with a high school diploma.

The most insidious challenge of Bernie’s wild notion of free college education is the training of people at every age to be dependent on government. Four million children enter kindergarten each year from pre-school. The 2015 Department of Education budget contains $1.3 billion for government control of pre-school kiddies plus $75 billion planned for the next ten years and $500 million set aside for ‘Pre-school Competitive Development Grants.’ There is no conclusive proof that pre-school ‘development’ has any lasting effects.

Our schools and educators are dominated by teacher’s unions that are more interested in salaries and benefits than in educating pre-K through high school. A few days ago the President and outgoing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for a ‘cap’ on tests in public schools at 2% of classroom time at the behest of teacher’s’ unions.

In the most recent PISA competition (Program for International Student Assessment), the U.S. is 5th in spending and 36th in results. Maybe that is the result of donations to Democrats in 2012 amounting to $158.8 million by the two top teachers’ unions.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook gave $100 million to Newark, NJ schools in 2010; the money blew by students and drifted into the pockets of consultants, administrators, teachers and pensions.

Here is the liberal linkage to the serfdom of socialist politics. Government pays for schooling through college. A number of students lack the skill and motivation to achieve above a limited level. Many of those inept students attend college, drop out and leave the wasted money in the college tills.

It is happening now with the college loan program initiated in 2010. Listless graduates from ‘free’ college will be looking for jobs with little work associated with the job title. Many will yield to the vacuous allure of government work by the high compensation, low performance requirements, guaranteed lifetime employment and outstanding retirement and healthcare benefits.

Because there will be an endless list of government job openings in social affairs, the new government worker may spend his/her career planning rest break and lunch period requirements for private industry.

We have taught and are teaching our rising generations to depend on government for housing, healthcare and education. Young adults are learning that government-mandated dignity and honor is accepting handouts while repudiating self-sufficiency and self- determination as old fashioned and out of date. Education, like healthcare, has become an expensive government mandate in our ever increasing freebie society.

– Dick Baynton

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