Thursday, April 30, 2020

Whitmer Proposes To Reward The Educational-Industrial Complex

As always with our governor, this crisis is all about opportunities for rewarding your political allies, whether campaign contributors or in this case the Michigan Academics and educational institutions who are her strong backers.

The Detroit News: Whitmer proposes free college for front-line workers

Of course she does.

Academia is a Democrat stronghold, it's hurting under her closure orders and due to the inflated cost of college. So, why not reward them with some government guaranteed funding under the guise of rewarding "frontline workers"?

As with most of her promises, like "Fixing the damn roads" it's big on flowery declarations and short on ideas as to actual funding.

Representatives for Whitmer did not respond immediately Wednesday to questions about how much the program would cost, how it would be funded and who would qualify.

Of course not, it's the noble intentions that matter here, that and the cheap political points.

The most telling quote in the whole article:

Christopher Fultz, who has a degree in theater but is employed as a cashier at Western Market in Ferndale, said free education for essential workers sounds promising. He hopes people can take advantage of the program to enroll in colleges as well as skilled trades training.

"I am all for more education," said Fultz. "It just opens up a lot of possibilities."

Yes, that college degree in theater really paved the way for a lot of possibility for you to become....a cashier.

Clearly the possibilities would have been even better if it was paid for by the state, right? After all it's worth more when it's free, right, after all the colleges made money off your theater degree, and a good thing you ran with it to exercise your talents as a cashier, right?

We can always use more cashiers with theater degrees in Michigan, after all.

1 comment:

MrGarabaldi said...

Hey Aaron;

That is what get me, I have ranted more than once about that, about the guidance councilors at schools telling the kids"GO do what feels good" not caring that whatever they get into ain't gonna give them a viable career, instead of something like a trade school or something grounded in science or whatever that has a market that pays well in the outside world. The kids graduate with a worthless degree and are hung with the debt that needs to be serviced and no career options...then they wonder where all these bernie "Free College" supporters come from.