Seems like Michigan wants to give more money to prospective college students. Being the beneficiary of a price ceiling on the interest rates of my student loans, and the recipient of a public education, I might not have a whole lot of room to talk, but hey, we still have a first amendment right, don’t we?

The merits of state-sponsored education or certainly debatable, and there’s plenty of arguments in favor of privatised scholastic institutions, but that’s another blog for another day. Insofar as the state is going to provide for education, I guess it’s one of the most noble causes they can pursue – afterall, an educated population is probably the single greatest investment a nation can make in its own future…

But isn’t enough enough already? In the event that you can’t qualify for student loans (and I don’t know anyone who can’t qualify for one sort or another), there are plenty of community colleges one can attend to earn many degrees that take you further than your state-sponsored Elementary education can ever dream of. The tuition at local CCs near me is somewhere in the neighborhood of $60/credit hour. I’m paid $210 at University, and I’m paying about double that amount for graduate work. arguably, it will pay off someday.

But my favorite quote from the article: “I kind of wish they would’ve given more money”

Well, duh. Of course you wish they’d have given more! I wish people would give me more double-cheesburgers, more gasoline, more Jack Daniels and more skoal, but all of these things cost money, and without looking at where the money is coming from, i suppose it’s easy to wish for more. But the money comes from somewhere, i.e. taxpayers, which the recipients of this sort of program are NOT.

So, you don’t pay taxes, but you go to k-12 for “free.” Your education is paid for by taxpayers. You have the option of going to Community College at a strongly subsidized rate, and you have the option of taking out loans that are also subsidized to pay for higher education —- and yet you want more?

I don’t even know where to start.