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New Mexico Promised Its Students Free College. Then Oil Prices Tanked. (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by Ahaus667 5 years ago by Ahaus667 +36 / -0
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– ailurus 31 points 5 years ago +31 / -0

"I'm not going around saying I told you so," said Sedillo Lopez, who sponsored an unsuccessful bill last year calling for a fracking moratorium for environmental reasons. "I'm very sad about it. Our state was on a collision course with itself." Sedillo Lopez, who called Lujan Grisham an "excellent governor," said she hopes the moment serves as a wake-up call and forces the state to reassess its relationship with oil and gas.

Uh huh. I'm sure that this is all the fault of the evil petroleum industry, and not at all the inevitable consequence of a pie-in-the-sky progressive scheme to buy votes with "FREE MONEY HERE!" only to realize that other people's money has suddenly dried up. Like it always does.

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– Lurker404 19 points 5 years ago +19 / -0

A story as old as time: left-wing politicians promises free shit for votes but can't deliver once elected because reality catches up. And instead of wising up voters will vote for whoever promises even more free shit next election

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– RoulerBleu 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

but can't deliver once elected because reality catches up.

No problem ; just Trudeau-it-up. Wreckless spendings with little to no oversight making the debt explode like never before.

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– Gizortnik 27 points 5 years ago +27 / -0

This is literally what Venezuela did.

Socialists are incapable of learning.

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– acp_k2win 25 points 5 years ago +25 / -0

what they say "free college"

what they mean "taxpayer supported commie indoctrination"

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– Gizortnik 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

I saw a clip of The Watchmen yesterday, and a politician said to the antagonist:

Free is just another word for Communist

He's supposed to be a strawman of a shitty bought-and-paid-for right-wing politician that's using accusations of Communism to protect his corporate allies... but the truth is that that statement is fucking true.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

When a communist says "Free" they just mean "Individuals I consider to be outside my moral framework will pay for it". Bourgeois aren't people.

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– Archie78 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Until you kill the kulak's and St Petersburg starves

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– Gizortnik 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Kulaks aren't people, that's actually my point.

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– coke501 24 points 5 years ago +24 / -0

This program is an absolute game changer for New Mexico," Lujan Grisham said at the time. "In the long run, we'll see improved economic growth, improved outcomes for New Mexican workers and families and parents

Because we all know that is what happens when you give free shit to people. They suddenly step up and want to do their part to repay society. Never would they ever expect more free shit just for existing.

What I think is sad is that these people (at least some of them) really believe that programs like these will benefit the people they claim to help in any way, when the only entity that profits is the institution that gets their overblown tuition paid by tax-payer-money. All this leads to is more bloat in administration more diversity-hires in more diversity-offices and more useless degrees that leave the students that were 'the first in their familiy to get a degree' with absolutely nothing to show for.

You wanna help people to climb out of poverty? Start with using all the money you use for [insert minority]-scholarships and put it in merit-based scholarships for people under a certain yearly income/net worth.

But you won't. Because you are a hostage of your own actions and taking away free shit for people that don't deserve it would cost you your political career. And that's all that matters to you at the end of the day.

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– Gizortnik 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

we'll see improved economic growth

"Our statistics will tell us good things when we make the population dependent on a few corporate oligarchs operating at the behest of their socialist political tyrants."

improved outcomes for New Mexican workers

"A peasant class of workers will be made corporate dependents once we make all the undesirables unemployed"

and families and parents

"Families are whiteness"

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– NeoTokyo 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

jfc not even commiefornia has free college and that state is stupid af

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