Fox’s Doocy: Students shouldn’t get free college because I just paid my loans off ‘two weeks ago'

[demmiblue]

Source: Raw Story

Fox News host Steve Doocy complained on Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s plan to make college tuition free for some students was not fair because he had just paid off his student loans “about two weeks ago.”

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, the president talked about his plan to “to spread that idea all across America, so that two years of college becomes as free and universal in America as high school is today.” The $60 billion dollar proposal would provide grants to pay 75 percent of the average cost of community college for two years, and participating states would be required to cover the rest.

“I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn’t derail anyone’s dreams,” Obama explained on Tuesday.

But Doocy reacted on Wednesday by suggesting that every student should be saddled with debt because he was.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/foxs-steve-doocy-students-shouldnt-get-free-college-because-i-just-paid-my-loans-off-two-weeks-ago/

There you go, folks... the party of me, myself and I (to hell with the rest of you)!

[tularetom]

1. I had no idea clown college was that expensive

[underpants]

4. Ooooh

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. .

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Is Steve Douchey the dumbest guy on Faux?

I realize there's a lot of competition, but he even looks stupid.

[djean111]

3. That is part of what keeps us divided - people bitched about, but accepted, bank mortgage bailouts.

But, the thought of applying that money to the actual mortgages? The thought of canceling onerous student loan and credit card amd medical debt? Oh noes! Why should anyone get rewarded for bad behavior, I paid MY loans off, etc. This keeps us from moving forward. The 1% know this quite well. We will accept bailing out the 1%, but not our next door neighbor.

[brer cat]

22. I heard this attitude recently

when two store clerks were talking about raising minimum wage. One said: "It's not fair; I had to work 2 years to get what they want to pay somebody just starting out." The other clerk tried to tell her they would ALL get a raise if minimum wage was increased, but she just kept saying "it's not fair." Divisive, indeed.

[Journeyman]

5. I wonder if he can get a refund. What he bought is obviously defective . . .

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Any refund should pay off his kneepads.

He makes his living differently than most folks.

[Lex]

6. I paid my student loans off too but I'm all for the 2 free years of community college.

Douchey is a typical "I've got mine, so screw you" Republican who doesn't give a shit about his fellow citizens.

[jwirr]

7. So he has no children or grandchildren?

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. I don't blame Doocy for being pissed.

Any college he had didn't do him a bit of good.

[Roland99]

10. Why the F does he care? Think about it this way....

He was given gobs of money to pay for tuition so he was able to go to college.

He then paid it off after attaining gainful (well...I'm being quite generous here) employment.

Other than some minor add'l funds for interest, how is this different from someone going to college w/o having to use loans?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. If people can get a couple of years of free college,

they are more likely to go to and finish college, which means they have a better chance at a good job, which means they might be able to contribute more to society, including as taxpayers. If they aren't buried in student loans they are better able to buy houses and cars and get married and have families and start businesses instead of living in their parents' basements until they're 40. Isn't it a good thing to have more people who have good jobs and can buy things and pay taxes and don't have to rely on other taxpayers for their survival? Isn't that what GOPers want - more "makers" and fewer "takers"? I don't understand how anyone could possibly object to supporting public education.

[Lex]

15. Or 2 years of community college to to train as electricians, HVAC techs, mechanics, LPN,

and other skilled jobs. Or 2 years and then transferring to a 4 year college if that's what one wants.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. All of those things. It's all good.

And Steve Douchey should get his money back, because obviously a college education didn't help him much. Fortuantely most people aren't as stupid as he is, and would benefit.

[Initech]

13. Translation: I've got mine, fuck you!

[JHB]

14. Steve Doocy publicly admits having the financial sense of birdseed

Doocy went to college in the mid-1970s (Univ. Kansas at Lawrence), when state schools were cheap, especially compared to today. On short notice I can only dig up some people's comments about a 2011 tuition hike proposal, but there a person mentions that tuition in 1975 was $250.

His annual salary at FOX is something like a half-million a year.

If he didn't pay it off decades ago:
1) he's been abusing the deferment system so badly we can retire the term "welfare queen" and replace it with "a doocy"; and
2) He's really bad at finances. Really, really bad. "Brains of birdseed" bad.

Don't use yourself as an example, Stevie. The whole reason Rupert and Roger have you on the air is because you're such a dumbass.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. He must have been paying it off at something like $5 a month.

But I think he's probably lying. He could easily have paid off a mid-'70s loan for a state university many years ago, and almost certainly did. Unless he's even more stupid than he looks, which is very stupid indeed.

[JHB]

19. That's the point: Either he's admitting to being an idiot, or...

...he's telling the audience to their face that they're idiots for believing him.

[FSogol]

17. Not only should it be free, they should pull the accreditation of whatever school that got

conned into giving Doocy a diploma. Then the buildings should be razed and converted to pig waste storage. The earth around it should be salted to prevent future Doocys.

[DirkGently]

20. Spite: Another pillar of American conservatism. n/t

[lame54]

21. Time to ask for a refund

[Ilsa]

23. Because I got screwed, I'd like for my kids to get screwed too.

That's what I'm hearing Douchey say.