Romney: Students Should Get ‘As Much Education As They Can Afford’

[ProSense]

Romney: Students Should Get ‘As Much Education As They Can Afford’

By Pat Garofalo

On the campaign trail Wednesday night in Virginia, Mitt Romney took on the topic of education. While extolling the virtues of America as “the land of opportunity for every single person,” Romney said that he believes students should only be able to get as much education “as they can afford”:

I think this is a land of opportunity for every single person, every single citizen of this great nation. And I want to make sure that we keep America a place of opportunity, where everyone has a fair shot. They get as much education as they can afford and with their time they’re able to get and if they have a willingness to work hard and the right values, they ought to be able to provide for their family and have a shot of realizing their dreams.

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This is similar to other comments Romney has made regarding higher education, such as when he told students to simply borrow the money for college from their parents or when he told them to “shop around” or join the military to get an education. But the crux of the matter is that Romney’s policies would make college less affordable for low- and middle-income students. So what they “can afford” is going to be a lot less.

For starters, Romney supports the radical Republican budget, authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), which would cut Pell Grants for more than one million students, at a time when Pell Grants are already covering the smallest percentage of tuition in their history.

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http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/06/29/509068/romney-education-afford

[NYC Liberal]

1. Poor will stay poor, because they can't get a better education, thus

they won't be able to get those "better job" conservatives always say they should get. But conservatives also oppose any kind of welfare.

So basically, the poor can "fuck off and die" as far as they are concerned.

[spanone]

2. wow, talk about pissing on those less fortunate

[ProSense]

3. And this

"if they have a willingness to work hard and the right values"

What the hell does that mean?

[yellowcanine]

5. He means right wing values, no doubt.

[Nostradammit]

7. It means the will to take things from others to better your own situation.

Law of the Jungle and all that.

[Initech]

4. Not like he ever had to worry about being able to afford things.

[Ghost of Huey Long]

6. and presidential candidates should get as much attention as they deserve...none.

Try being a human then get back to us.

How many of you remember the first thing that the Declaration of Independence said? It said: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that there are certain inalienable rights for the people, and among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" and it said further, "We hold the view that all men are created equal."

Now, what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men are created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10,000,000,000 and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing?

Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could ever dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

That was not the meaning of the Declaration of Independence when it said that all men are created equal or "That we hold that all men are created equal."
http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Mr. Tone Deaf strikes again

Affording an education is a major sore point for young people and the issue is front and center since the bill regarding student loan debt has now gone to the Presidents desk. Like the other civilized countries in the world, America should recognize that all of society reaps the rewards of an educated citizenry and we should be making higher education for all more available instead of more exclusive.

[Sparkly]

9. It's the opposite of being a "SNOB who wants everyone to go to college."

It's not at all snobby to leave the little people in the dust.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. And if you can't afford to pay for an education,

well, sucks to be you. We have a Wal-Mart greeter job all ready for you. If you're lucky.

[SoutherDem]

11. Is he trying to piss off most of America?

So the rich get a good education
The middle class get a poor education
the poor work at McDonalds.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. What about kids who weren't fortunate enough to be born with a silver spoon in their mouths?

Rmoney obviously never had to experience poverty because he was born into wealth, yet he calls Obama out of touch? What an asshole.