Friendly reminder that most of the politicians making noise about this either come from wealth, so don’t know what it’s like to try to climb the economic ladder without that support, or went to college when the cost for tuition was roughly equivalent to the cost of books. Or both.
I got scholarships, worked, and lived on about $6k per year during college in the late ‘90s in the US and still had debt when I graduated.
I paid it off, but I have NO qualms cancelling or reducing student debt for others.
That and free healthcare would cause our economy to really blossom.
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I’m a millennial who made life altering sacrifices to go to school without ending up with loans and I don’t resent people who need help getting out from them. This was a big fucking rip off for a lot of us and our parents and the only thing I resent is that it ever got to be like this in the first place. When I look back on it I don’t feel proud of myself, rather it all just feels like a godawful farce. I’ve lost all respect for our higher educational systems at a profound level but it’s literally the only mechanism we have for creating the human resources required to keep a society functioning…
People are shallow and shortsighted.
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This showed up in my newsfeed this evening:
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Just to beat a dead horse: Land Grant universities (pretty much every “University of [state]” and “[state x] State University” were granted their namesake land in order to provide college education for a nominal tuition. These days, that tuition is very far from nominal. There’s something to be said for undoing that damage.
Who started the process that lead to the damage? Reagan, of course. Honestly, he probably was patient zero for most of the harmful things we see in the US and even the world today. Somebody should tell those time travelers who are going back in time to off Hitler to make a stop in the 1950s, too.
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And back then, one wouldn’t even need to kill him. Just plant some communist literature or evidence of homosexuality in his dressing room and tip off the press.
Although, typing that reminds me that he was just the charismatic poster child that the political party elevated, so they probably would’ve found someone else.
Correcting the timeline is hard.
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Crap. You’re right. We’d have had President Charleton Heston instead.
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