Obama Wants $12 Billion for Community Colleges

(AP) President Barack Obama is proposing a multibillion-dollar investment in the nation's community colleges, a $12 billion effort to help the two-year institutions reach, teach and train more people for "the jobs of the future."

Mr. Obama was outlining his four-part program in a speech Tuesday afternoon at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich.

Under the initiative, schools could qualify for "challenge grants" so they'll have money to give new programs a try, or expand training and counseling.

Dropout rates would be addressed by designing programs to help students who want to earn an associate's degree or transfer to a four-year institution do so.

Money would be spent to renovate outdated facilities or build new ones, and to develop online courses and make them freely available to students and others who want to use them.

The total federal cost is $12 billion over a decade. Of that, $9 billion would go toward challenge grants and addressing dropout rates. Half a billion, or $500 million, would go toward online education. The remaining $2.5 billion would be used to spark $10 billion in renovation and construction nationwide, said James Kvaal, an Obama economic policy adviser.

Some of the money could be available by the 2010 budget year that begins Oct. 1. - CBS News Story

I have a new plan. I am running for President of the US and here is my plan.

I am instituting a 100% Tax on everyone. Every penny you make you send to Me the Government. I in turn will give you everything that I think you deserve. Since some of you are much more driven to work harder than some, that is good because you will make up for their laziness and lack of drive. Everyone will be given too equally. (Not really everyone, Us in Government and our Friends will take more, but it is our plan!)

Don't worry about anything, I will give you transportation, housing, health care, food, security, and everything that I feel you will need.

For those of you that don't want to work hard and earn your way, make sure that you push your neighbor to get out there and work extra hard to cover you.

Sounds like the direction we are headed now doesn't it.

What ever happen to working hard and earning your way. Why is it that those that have worked hard and earned it have to share it with those that have not?