Choseing to be a part of the silent majority

[Joods]

So, I ask you the following:
1. Just where should the money to support free college education come from?
2. What sort of criteria needs to be met in order for a student to get this free education?
3. If a person comes from a well off family, should their family be forced to pay for that child's college education or should that child go to school for free?

Mind if I take a crack at this?

1. Even a minor military earmark, such as a new small arms round, soaks up many more times the cash required to fund our dept of ed to near bursting.    Reach into that.  Though honestly, the issue you mentioned earlier has to do as much with school admin soaking up funds and there being little left to trickle down to teachers as it does with our level of funding.  You seen the wage disparity between dept. heads and educators recently?   We could free up a significant amount directly from the dept of ed itself by making changes to how they allocate what funds we already provide.  If all of that fails, for whatever reason, there's a thing called a tax.  

Well, I'm not entirely sure exactly how much of our military budget should be cut, but I suppose making cuts there is a possibility. I think where the true start needs to be made is with the salary the politicians themselves, earn. Cut that down to a realistic amount. Give them a still livable wage, but if they're only going to work 1/3 of the year, they should get paid as such without perks and benefits of those who actually put in an honest 40 hour (or more) work week. Also, give them ALL term limits. Not just a select handful, but every single one of them.

Yes, I've seen the wage differences between dept. heads (administration, if you will) and teachers. It saddens me.

2. The same requirements that need be met for elementary, middle, and high school educations.

College is a lot different than elementary and middle school, and even the first two years of high school. So the requirements for college should be stricter since there is a higher standard to maintain. But...

3. Free.  OFC it doesn't matter much, because people from well off families (and even people from poor families when they can swing it) -already- choose to forego the free education their child could recieve and send them to private school.  That won't change.

Whaddaya think?

I think it should be free for everyone. Agreed. I also think that if someone wants to open a private school and charge tuition, they have that right, but they should be completely exempt from being eligible to receive title IX funding.

(and put a candidate up in a general that stumps on that and I'd be right out of my little hideyhole to vote for them, so long as it doesn't come bundled with "kill the gays" or somesuch shit, lol ).

I have no one to offer. But you should run

There... I offer up YOU for candidate for president.