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Bernie Sanders: Isn't there a lesson here that we should be learning from Germany?
WDIM
(1,662 posts)The money we wasted on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could of sent that entire generation to college instead we sent many to the grave.
appalachiablue
(41,134 posts)and the era of RW voodoo economics and 'free trade' agreements. Nobody left undergraduate college with debt like today, around 35K on average. It's theft, robbing young people of their future, plunder for profit and establishing indentured servitude. Abolish college tuition like Germany and most of Europe! Post WWII GI's received free college education and they bettered society through education and training, work and occupations, homeownership and strengthening communities.
Go Bernie!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)this type of push will help decent fair educated people enough to be able to marginalize the ignorant, basically dumb racist, what to do about the smart racists, I don't know yet?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)And when many of them become wealthy ... they pay their share of the taxes that got them there. A simple policy. This is fair and helps stabilize the system. You should end up with a system that is fairly inclusive, and yet cost effective.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)What has and is happening to our education system in America is criminal.