I read this editorial in a newspaper own and operated by the Nutting Family of Wheeling, West Virginia.
This is what rich conservative people write to slap the poorly educated in the face.
The Intellegencer.
Wheeling News-Register
Oct. 10, 2016
There’s No Free Lunch, Or College
Younger generations — mine as well as the current one — tend to have a very naive, unrealistic outlook on life. Many of our ancestors worried every time they opened the cabin door that a Native American would be waiting outside to discuss property rights.
But generations of politicians who knew promising people something for nothing is the key to success changed that attitude.
Take free college. Hillary Clinton and her friend Bernie Sanders know they can count on lots of votes by promising it. Millions of young people in college, planning for it, still paying for it into their 30s love the idea. So do their parents. So do higher education folks, for the obvious reason.
But what about that?
Read the fine print: What folks like Clinton and Sanders are talking about is the government covering the cost of college tuition only.
At West Virginia University, undergraduate tuition for in-state students is $6,720 a year. So Hillary and Bernie would cover that (not really, but we’ll get into that later).
But WVU estimates the total cost of attendance for a year, including a place to stay, food to eat and miscellaneous university fees is $17,618. So Hillary and Bernie, despite frequent use of the word, aren’t talking about “free” at all. It’s still going to cost you nearly $11,000 a year to go to WVU, under their plan. If you’re like most students, the tab is likely to be higher.
Well, fine, you say. At least I don’t have to pay that $33,600 in bachelor’s degree tuition (assuming five years, which, distressingly, seems to be the standard these days for a four-year degree).
One thing they don’t seem to be very good at teaching on most campuses: Money doesn’t grow on trees. That’s the part Hillary, Bernie and others in the “free college” crowd don’t want you to think about.
Government doesn’t pay for anything. You and I do, every time our employer sends part of what we earn to the IRS.
There is no free lunch — for most of us, at least.
It all amounts to this, I suppose: It has been said that if you’re not a liberal when in your 20s, you have no heart — but if you’re not a conservative in your 40s, you have no brain.
Amen.
Mike Myer
Executive Editor Mike Myer can be reached at: theintelligencer.net
Sorry, I find stuff like this very repulsive and a threat to our country.
Some info on my idea of the filthy rich.
Robert Nutting -- is the Chairman of the Board and principal owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, President and CEO of Ogden Newspapers Inc. and Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania, a four-season resort 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Robert's daddy, G. Ogden, is a frequent donor to Republicans. Nearly $50,000 last year alone.