The Great Debate - Free College For All

[Life_One]

I'm sure I will appear as the odd ball but.... what we need is some type of Universal Basic Income (UBI). I don't mean 5k a month or adding the UBI onto welfare program's. Cut the welfare programs and roll those into a UBI that is distributed to the people and they use it as they see fit. The MIT review had a few articles on the pros and con's of a UBI, and while it wasn't perfect it helped many of the recipients attend night school and afford transportation. They lost their welfare in exchange for the UBI but it made a difference in their life. That allowed them to make change.

Why talk about UBI on a thread about free College? Having free college is part of the symptom and not the answer in my opinion. When we look at the overall issues and problems of the USA, it's all about money.

Money is power and people need some kind of power to do something with their lives. With welfare you aren't given the freedom to make your own decisions or are limited to what you can do with that aid.

The current system is unsustainable as is and eventually will collapse if we will not do something about it. Everyone complains about tax's but no one realises our infrastructure is falling apart along with everything else, we are living on borrowed time. If we all don't work together, I'm not sure what the landscape will be in 30 years but it won't be pretty.


I'm in a hurry, forgive my typos and lack of sources I'll add those later. Moral of the story, we need systems that work for all of us and not just a few. Free college, eliminating your student loans, and all of that is a symptom and not the cause.