Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli and host Maria Bartiromo seem to think that because they struggled to pay for college, everybody else should, too.
Fox News' Your World show "discussed" Hillary Clinton’s college plan, not with any substance but by having one of its contributors attack it, with a little help from host Bartiromo, plus a Democrat as faux balance.
Conservative contributor Deneen Borelli got to go first and she smeared Clinton's plan by derisively comparing it to ObamaCare.
BORELLI: Nothing is free Maria in this world. First of all, this is a vote-buying scheme [Bartiromo murmured and nodded her head], and also what they’re trying to do is, trying to pander to the young voters, and this is also a scheme that’s just not going to work. Listen, this is the wrong incentive to be sending a message to our young children. This will not work, and when you look at the fact that colleges will increase tuitions because someone else is paying for it, this reminds me of Obamacare. Someone else is paying for it, the rates are going to go up. This scheme will not work, it’s going to backfire.
Democrat Taryn Rosenkranz rebutted. She said, “We’re offering free college and the promise of opportunity to folks who deserve it and need it.” She noted that wealthy Americans who can afford college will not be eligible. “It really is a good option for those of us that are hard-working Americans who need a break,” she said.
But Borelli seemed to think that because she struggled to pay for school, so should everybody else:
BORELLI: I went to the school of “Figure It Out.” I wanted to go to school, wanted to go to college when I graduated. My parents couldn’t afford it. I got an entry level job at a corporation that offered tuition reimbursement. Took me 11 years, but I finally graduated. I had skin in the game, I was responsible for my payments and I knew then that I was not going to rely on anyone, especially government, because this was something what I wanted.
Bartiromo added approvingly, “So was I!” Her voice turned critical as she asked Rosenkranz, “Who is going to pay for it, Taryn?”
Rosenkranz said she, too, had gone to college with student loans. But, she asked, “Why should children who have then worked very hard and who can’t afford the opportunity have to take 11 years?”
“Because nothing’s free!” Bartiromo chimed in.
Borelli interrupted. “It’s not the government’s role to provide people with their wants and needs.” I guess we can count on her not to collect Social Security when she retires.
“Objective” Bartiromo put her thumb on the scale again. “Why would you work hard, Taryn, if you know you’re going to get it for free?”
But while Borelli and Bartiromo were talking up the glories of crushing student debt, they never pointed out that college is much less affordable than it was when those two were putting their “skin in the game.” As an editorial in The New York Times noted, “College is becoming less and less affordable to more and more families higher and higher on the socioeconomic ladder.”
Watch them ignore that ugly truth below, from the July 6 Your World.