One reason for cancelling student loans would be to give 21st century students the same benefits that previous generations got. In 1970 I left the Navy to go to UC Berkeley to study Chemistry. Between the GI bill and the pay for being Teaching Asst / Research Asst, graduate school was essentially free. Today college tuitions are affor…
One reason for cancelling student loans would be to give 21st century students the same benefits that previous generations got. In 1970 I left the Navy to go to UC Berkeley to study Chemistry. Between the GI bill and the pay for being Teaching Asst / Research Asst, graduate school was essentially free. Today college tuitions are affordable only to the rich. Others have to take on these huge loans. Our generation took advantage of all this but passed nothing on to today's students. We should be ashamed.
Perhaps instead we could explore why projects that cost a million a few decades ago now cost a trillion. Same with necessities. Why is all the wealth of nations concentrated in such few hands? That isn't natural. Why can't kids afford college? Who is it that is sapping the life blood of the People? And why do we let them do it?
Because they've bought most of the Rep Party, and some Dems as well, and they've bought what used to be reasonably fair news outlets and let swill/lies be broadcast on outlets that reach millions of people who have no access to other outlets, because "Saint Ronnie" convinced millions that trickle-down economics (the one that the first Bush called voodoo) would benefit them and that those poor, poor millionaires needed all those tax breaks, income 300 times their employees, and deductions that the middle class couldn't take, that Bush 2 could fight 2 wars (one of them totally unwarranted) without paying for them, and then little old Gingrich convinced a good number of Reps that compromise was a dirty word and no true Rep would ever do that. Oh, and F* the future - the only thing that matters is getting the Tea Party, Trump, and everyone who panders to him in power forever.
One reason for cancelling student loans would be to give 21st century students the same benefits that previous generations got. In 1970 I left the Navy to go to UC Berkeley to study Chemistry. Between the GI bill and the pay for being Teaching Asst / Research Asst, graduate school was essentially free. Today college tuitions are affordable only to the rich. Others have to take on these huge loans. Our generation took advantage of all this but passed nothing on to today's students. We should be ashamed.
Perhaps instead we could explore why projects that cost a million a few decades ago now cost a trillion. Same with necessities. Why is all the wealth of nations concentrated in such few hands? That isn't natural. Why can't kids afford college? Who is it that is sapping the life blood of the People? And why do we let them do it?
Because they've bought most of the Rep Party, and some Dems as well, and they've bought what used to be reasonably fair news outlets and let swill/lies be broadcast on outlets that reach millions of people who have no access to other outlets, because "Saint Ronnie" convinced millions that trickle-down economics (the one that the first Bush called voodoo) would benefit them and that those poor, poor millionaires needed all those tax breaks, income 300 times their employees, and deductions that the middle class couldn't take, that Bush 2 could fight 2 wars (one of them totally unwarranted) without paying for them, and then little old Gingrich convinced a good number of Reps that compromise was a dirty word and no true Rep would ever do that. Oh, and F* the future - the only thing that matters is getting the Tea Party, Trump, and everyone who panders to him in power forever.