The year ended on a bad note and began on a worse one……a heart attack by a family member just crapped all over the new year….all is well and hopefully the rest of the year will be a quiet one.

Education in this country sucks!  For one reason….a college education is too damn EXPENSIVE!

Finally an idea from the Obama White House that I can get behind……and there has not been too many that have peaked my interest……

President Obama wants the federal government to pay for two years of community college for eligible students. Obama laid out the broad strokes in a video and will cover more details during a speech tomorrow in Tennessee and in his State of the Union address on Jan. 20, reports USA Today. “Put simply, what I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for anybody who’s willing to work for it,” he says. “It’s something we can accomplish, and it’s something that will train our workforce so that we can compete with anyone in the world.”

Students would need at least a C+ average to qualify, and they’d have to attend school at least half-time, reports Politico. The schools, meanwhile, would have to transfer credits to four-year colleges (more details are on the White House blog). If Congress goes along, the feds would cover three-quarters of the cost, while states would pick up the rest. The White House expects 9 million students would participate, and USA Today comes up with a cost of $34.2 billion per year.

Of course the GOP will have a stroke and begin to try to kill the idea by using the cost as a weapon……but my thought is….It is a lot damn cheaper than your useless wars.

My guess is that such a great idea will die a lingering death at the hands of the GOP controlled Congress….DC where good ideas go to die!