Hillary Clinton is on a populist tear tonight going after colleges who dare to charge students for their educations. First up, this tweet on state colleges:
Students should never have to take out a loan to pay for tuition at their state’s public university.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 16, 2015
So will this be a new federal mandate that controls how each state handles tuition? More information please.
But her second tweet makes even less sense:
If schools load students up with debt for programs that don’t lead to good-paying jobs, they should be accountable, too.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 16, 2015
Accountable to whom? And we’d love to hear more on how Hillary would implement this one.
But here’s where her Twitter feed gets really funny. Before the incoherent tweets on student loans, her account posted this. No money for the interns, but there’s free coffee!
Interning at #Hillary2016 HQ in NYC:
✔️ Free coffee
✔️ Great views
✔️ The chance to make historyApply today → http://t.co/519xG6Q5h2
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 16, 2015
Question for Hillary: If candidates load up students with debt for internships that don’t pay minimum wage, should they be held accountable, too?
And Tweeters are having some fun mocking Hillary over her free coffee/no pay plan:
https://twitter.com/Travesham/status/633023785189404674
Intern at @FiveThirtyEight in NYC:
✔️ Unlike #Hillary2016, we'll actually pay you.
Apply -> http://t.co/fD2bCBbEOFhttps://t.co/SeB8RtTNdx— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 16, 2015
Not paying interns hurts the campaign by ensuring that the lowest level staff are all relatively well-off https://t.co/91YqBS1hMh
— Josh Nelson (@josh_nelson) August 16, 2015
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/633035292849541120
✔️ No Pay https://t.co/sGkuu0O58z
— Dan Thompson (@DK_Thompson) August 16, 2015
and no pay to work long hours in one of the most expensive cities in the country! https://t.co/R5ZjhFvPrj
— Luigi de Guzman (@ouij) August 16, 2015
https://twitter.com/SHuijboom/status/633025084354113536
Sleeping in a tent on a street in Brooklyn is probably illegal in Mayor de Blasio’s liberal utopia, but we’d love to see some interns give it a try!
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