This is nothing more than a vote buying tactic.

Liberals believe that it's entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

The numbers are easy 4 millions new born a year by 5000 = 20 B the total cost of the Iraq war 2 trillion enough for 100 years 1 trillion enough for for 50 years. Incredible but war is more expensive than education. We could have build a mansion for each Iraqi family and save almost a million dead cool. We will pay the war as well for sure but in debt.

If the program only raises the level of education of the average American in 2 months it will pay for itself in increasing revenues. Do the numbers a college graduate make an average of 30000 a year more than a high school multiply for 40 years and take a 10% on taxes a conservative estimation since we have sales taxes and property taxes it will be 120000 in extra revenue for for life divide by 5000 is 4 year divided by 25 two months ONLY TWO MONTH incredible education is the best investment

A few provisions

1) no children of illegal.

2) If you get in trouble as a juvenile you may lose your money.

3) individual accounts so not ever the parents can touch it and financial institutions most compete for the money.

Capitalism for the Masses the way of the future.

And this is without considering lowering crime rates less jails and the multiplicative effect of more services generating employment and jobs in clean technology need a better education Capitalism for the Masses makes a lot of sense social innovation is the America way kudos to Hillary very smart.

She sounds the middle schoolers running for student council at my sons school. Except they only promsing impossible things like days off school and dunk tanks at recess. Gullible kids still voted for them, and gullible liberals will vote for Hillary!

The numbers are easy 4 millions new born a year by 5000 = 20 B the total cost of the Iraq war 2 trillion enough for 100 years 1 trillion enough for for 50 years. Incredible but war is more expensive than education. We could have build a mansion for each Iraqi family and save almost a million dead cool. We will pay the war as well for sure but in debt.

If the program only raises the level of education of the average American in 2 months it will pay for itself in increasing revenues. Do the numbers a college graduate make an average of 30000 a year more than a high school multiply for 40 years and take a 10% on taxes a conservative estimation since we have sales taxes and property taxes it will be 120000 in extra revenue for for life divide by 5000 is 4 year divided by 25 two months ONLY TWO MONTH incredible education is the best investment.

First of all this should really be considered separate from the health care issue.

First of all a real solution to the health care issue should save us money not cost us money. Currently the US is spending more on health care (either in raw dollars or percent of GDP) than any other country on earth while only providing spotty coverage. Our problem isn't that we aren't spending enough!

As for all of the whining about how to administer it and all, the program is no different than the current bunch of 401k and IRA accounts so to say that some whole new beaurocracy needs to be set up is just a red herring argument.

The argument about this misses some points. first of all the money would probably be subject to income tax when withdrawn. So the government gets some of it back with interest. The other thing is that like most indivicual assets it will need to be reported on the FAFSA and would increase the expected personal contribution almost dollar for dollar. So in fact the children given these bonds WOULD require less student aid!

And yes I would agree that it should be the case that both the parents be either citizens or legal immigrants. You wouldn't want to tag a big financial incentive on 'birth tourism'.

In the same way that people in this country seem to think that the U. S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq are free, people seem to be under the impression that this money will somehow magically materialize from somewhere else.

Who do you think is going to pay for this? The megacorporations which are either moving their operations to mailboxes in third world countries to escape taxation and transparency [e.g., Helliburton (sp) moving to the United Arab Emirates, home of two of the 9/11 hijackers, according to the government-sponsored conspiracy theory) OR for those that remain in the United States, their share of tax receipts has continued to fall considerably over the past few decades, so don't look here.


Think the top 1 percenters are going to help cover the cost of the $5,000? You don't really think that our elected officials (including the Senate, most of whom are millionaires themselves) will vote for higher taxes for themselves, their friends, and their most generous campaign contributors?

If you want something like this, take out a $5,000 loan, and place it in an investment of your choice, remembering that you will immediately start paying interest and will eventually need to pay off the principal. This is essentially the same deal that Hillary is proposing, only if the money were held in a governmental account, it is unlikely that the elected officials will be able to resist the temptation to borrow from it (consider the raid on the social security trust funds).

Hillary's proposal is akin to literally pulling oneself up by their own bootstraps. Try it sometime, and the answer should be soon apparent.

Will she be paying for that with a check, or with her VISA? Oh, MY bad, I forgot, she spends
OTHER people's money to pay for her Government
Doughnut handout crap...

As in healthcare, Hillary offers a band aid to a patient requiring heart surgery.

If America wants to be competitive with the rest of the world, we must pay for public university education for all who wish to get it and are academically qualified.

If we don't do it, we should accept becoming a thirld word country in not too distant a future.

Next Hillary will propose legalizing 4th through 6th term abortions and you get to keep the 5 large if you vote Democrat.

An afterthought.

If Hilary is elected she should fight to make colleges and universities free for American citizens.
Hey, it works in other countries.

This is ideal. But, even to me a liberal, it seems a bit unrealistic.
What the children of America needs is HEALTH CARE.
When Bush leaves office we will be in so much debt. It will be almost impossible to give every new born a $5,000.00 bond.
Let's fix what is wrong first, then we could venture into new areas.

HEAVEN FORBID WE SHOULD INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cost of this proposal is the equivalent of about 6 weeks of the WAR IN IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAT WE INVEST IN DEATH INSTEAD OF LIFE!!!!!!!!!!

The scary thing here is that Hillary is -this close- to a good idea.

Now, if she had proposed something like setting aside a $5k baby bond for all new children, and then REVOKING their student aid in the future, THAT would be a great idea.

Heck, we could even up it to $10k. You get the money invested on your behalf, but don't come crying about financial aid later on.

In fact, we could do the same for social security, medicare, etc. Set aside $50k for every new child for retirement, then revoke their Social security benefits. Set aside $50k for Medicare, and revoke their medicare benefits.

It would be an anti-ponzi scheme.

Now, in the unfortunate circumstance that someone dies before getting their money out, that money would be put back into the pot to cover anyone that had bad luck in the financial markets.

I say let's do it and get this ponzi scheme entitlement noose from around our neck.