Companies have been offering tution to its employees as an incentive so why can't the armed forces?

Prisoners can get free tution too.

The real question is, why should anyone have to pay for a college education anymore.
apple | 05.18.06 - 11:43 am | #

I have no problem with the federal government paying for college as a perk for joining the military. What doesn't seem right is state governments deciding to give certain people breaks over others.
cicero | Homepage | 05.18.06 - 12:13 pm | #

Waaaait a minute. Wouldn't "the federal government paying for college as a perk for joining the military" mean all taxpayers foot the bill? How is that different?
Alan | 05.18.06 - 12:23 pm | #

State college's like UDC and Indiana Univ. are just the 13th grade for kids who took wood shop pass/fail in high school. Who cares who pays to go there.

Decent private schools like my dear Catholic U have a higher standard.

Even our girls lacrosse team has tougher enterance requirements as seen in today's Washington Post and on http://badjocks.com/archive/2006...ns- lacrosse.htm

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apple | 05.18.06 - 12:52 pm | #

Alan, if the state or federal government was directly paying for this, it would be a line on the budget that voters would either be for or against, and could vote for their representives according to how the felt about it.
In this case though, the budget isn't directly affected, the average voter doesn't have to pay for it, and students who didn't waste their time in the military get screwed.
State representives are getting free publicity by giving a free lunch to a politically popular group at the expense of another group who traditionally doesn't have a lot of money.
Seems pretty fucked up to me, though possibly because i'm in college and hate the military.
Travis | 05.18.06 - 12:54 pm | #

I think the federal government can give benefits to its employees, even I disagree with those benefits (and the employer for that matter). But, it is discriminatory for a state government to say we will let anyone who has worked on one side of a particular issue go to our university for free. Imagine the outcry if Vermont decided to let anyone who spent more than three years "working for peace" to get free tuition. That would clearly discriminate against people with different politics.
cicero | Homepage | 05.18.06 - 1:00 pm | #

sorry, should have been "even if I" in the first sentence above.
cicero | Homepage | 05.18.06 - 1:02 pm | #

Veterans are no longer employees. The military gives generous tuition assistance to active military.

My question: why is the government in the education business anyway?
Leonardo | Homepage | 05.18.06 - 1:06 pm | #

How is joining the military one side of a political issue?

My grandfather was a cook in Kentucky during WWII. Not sure he was making any political choices or working for any side of an issue other than white or wheat with chipped beef.

Also, I have a friend in Kabul building a hospital right now. I'd say she is "Working for Peace" as is my friend's husband in the Army Corp of Engineers fixing New Orleans.
apple | 05.18.06 - 3:51 pm | #

apple,

You had me, but lost me at "Army Corps of Engineers fixing New Orleans". They're dig-a-ditch-fill-a-ditch on a massively expensive scale. They helped break New Orleans, which they'll now "fix", which is a "fix" that will someday break, and they will again "fix". Wash. Rinse. Repeat. If I was president, my second act would be to abolish the ACE.
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