Students rally for free college in New York City. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
09 January 15
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Obama’s plan to offer Americans two years of college for free has come
under fire from congressional Republicans, who are calling it a blatant
plot to make Americans smarter.
The G.O.P., which has benefited from the support of
so-called “low-information voters” in recent years, accused Obama of
cynically trying to make people smarter as a way of chipping away at the
Republican base.
“You take low-information voters and give them information, and pretty soon they’re Democrats,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said.
House Speaker John Boehner said that “forcing
knowledge into people” was “flagrantly un-American,” adding, “We make
this promise to the American people: if you like your brains, you can
keep your brains.”
1 comment:
Nothing is for "free". Someone has to pay for it.
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