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It's not fear; it's greed.
The right wingers around here truly don't care how much anyone else suffers as long as they "get theirs."
Agreed, agreed, agreed. It is soooo patently obvious.
To a lesser degree, this also percolates into the Right-wing crowd. They think that by "hard-work" they deserve the "fruits of their labor". Namely a house and a good-enough retirement.
Sounds good to me, but that's not the whole picture. If you are born at the wrong place at the wrong time, life pans out quite differently. So, what do you do, when luck doesn't break your way. One looks for alternatives.
And the alternative that looks best is the "enticing offer" from the DoD. Military service, and if you survive it, you get your tertiary-education paid for you. From the Internet:
There are four main initiatives that make up Tuition Sup-port Programs: Montgomery GI Bill. The Montgomery GI Bill is designed to help you pay for your college education. Depending on how long you enlist with the Army and the job you choose, you can get over $50,000 to help pay for college.
And here is what you, as a prospective student, are up against - an explosive Cost Price Index for a college education:
Today, the average cost of in-state students is $9410 per year, and military services will pay for it - though perhaps not all when one calculates total costs in addition to tuition. If you survive your military service - perhaps sacrificing your life trying to obtain funding of a postsecondary education.
Nobody is placed in that predicament of a choice in Europe. It is, for the most part, either free or ridiculously inexpensive. As shown here:
The high-costs are totally the responsibility of privatized education. Were at least the state-schools subsidized by the Federal government, their tuition-fees would be far lower - and available to more of our children. Which is why we have a first-rate military establishment* but a higher-than-necessary cost of tertiary schooling that impedes enrollment in an education crucial to one's earning-career.
Not so? Tell me how ...
*When, in heaven's name, are we going to get off the DoD-binge we've been on for at least three decades!?!
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