How Millennials Can Still Live Bernie’s Dream
11th June 2016
Despite some recent budgetary setbacks, a long-running American experiment in socialism is still going strong, and yet somehow it remains one of the country’s best-kept secrets.
The federal experiment involves 1.3 million Americans—less than 1% of the population, but 75% of the participants are themselves millennials, so Bernie’s supporters should feel right at home. Unless they feel like they’ve arrived in socialist heaven.
July 8th, 2016 at 12:18
I am an older American. I lived the socialist dream as far as my education is concerned.
I had free education through high school. Glendale Jr. College (before they were community colleges) cost me $10 a semester. There were no parking fees. I went to San Fernando Valley
College (now Northridge) and lived in the dorm and paid around $200 a semester for that.
18 years later I finished my BA at San Diego and I paid around $245 a semester and I had free
parking. San Diego State University, by the way, was the only state college(s) that was ready
to be a state university and all the other CA colleges came in on our coattails. I have an MSW and
now a friend is paying $100,000 for my degree because she is going to a “for profit” university,
Alliant. That’s disgusting. Also, in Glendale, CA, at Glendale High a high school student could
do their hours for cosmotology (3000 hours) and be ready to take their exams upon graduation.
Now a beautician is scammed by for profit cosmotology schools to the tune of $20,000.
Is America rich enough to educate out people; yes it is. What happened: the banks and governors like the scoundrel Arnold Swartzenegger, working together scammed the public. Education is a right; we all profit when people are educated. Who profits when we are not educated? People like a Trump, can fool the People.
July 8th, 2016 at 14:39
The statement ‘is America rich enough to educate our people’ implies that ‘America’ is entitled to everybody’s wealth (which it takes at the point of a gun) and can spend it for what ever ‘America’ likes (which means whatever the government for the time being likes).
What you want is for other people to pay for your education. Sorry, but I’m not willing to do that. I paid for my own education (4 years of Yale, MBA & JD at Indiana), and I expect you to do the same. ‘But I can’t afford it!’ Well, then you can’t have it. Sorry to be the parent that you apparently never had, but reality doesn’t care what you want it to be.