Free college tuition for all! says presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

[MineralMan]

4. Yes. I remember Obama saying that.

The trouble is that Presidents can't make such things happen on their own. I would love to see free post-secondary education in this country. Someone, however, has to pay for it. If the federal government is going to subsidize part of that, legislation to that effect will have to be passed in Congress and signed by the President. If the states will be subsidizing part of it, each state will have to fund that.

It's not an Executive Order sort of initiative, because it will require billions in funding. As long as Republicans are in control of Congress and state legislatures, nothing of the sort will be legislated. That's always the problem. It's easy to say that such a thing should happen. Making it happen, though, is almost impossible.

That's the difficulty here. I pay little attention to statements like this, unless there is some plan for implementing it. I don't see any such plan, either from President Obama or from Senator Sanders. Such funding legislation is not possible at this point or in the foreseeable future.

I want to hear proposals that have some chance to be implemented, not fantasy stuff.