THE ORIGIN OF STUDENT DEBT: REAGAN ADVISER WARNED FREE COLLEGE WOULD CREATE A DANGEROUS "EDUCATED PR

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

PROLETARIAT”

WITH THE vociferous debate over President Joe Biden’s announcement that the federal government will cancel a portion of outstanding student debt, it’s important to understand how Americans came to owe the current cumulative total of more than $1.6 trillion for higher education.

In 1970, Ronald Reagan was running for reelection as governor of California. He had first won in 1966 with confrontational rhetoric toward the University of California public college system and executed confrontational policies when in office. In May 1970, Reagan had shut down all 28 UC and Cal State campuses in the midst of student protests against the Vietnam War and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. On October 29, less than a week before the election, his education adviser Roger A. Freeman spoke at a press conference to defend him.

Freeman’s remarks were reported the next day in the San Francisco Chronicle under the headline “Professor Sees Peril in Education.” According to the Chronicle article, Freeman said, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. … That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go to college].”

“If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.” Freeman also said — taking a highly idiosyncratic perspective on the cause of fascism —“that’s what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.”

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

So if they're uneducated unemployed people do they become Republicans?

[electric_blue68]

1. Or they didn't want people reading about, or more of FDR, Elenore Roosevelt, what the Govt Can Do...

for People, slavery, suffragettes, and more.

To have them resist Reaganism, and WORSE!!!

Imnsho

(ns= not do 😄 ) 😁

[keep_left]

2. It's the same group of neocons that gave us the Powell Memo.

https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Neoliberal_Economics/Lewis_Powell_Manifesto.html

Many of them went on to found the right-wing "think" tanks, not to mention their service in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. When you read their ridiculous prose, e.g. the "danger to Western Civilization", you can really see a straight line through to the alt-right of today. The anti-Semitism is the only thing the neocons find really distasteful about the alt-right.

By the way, a generation before, in the post-WWII years, there were similar attitudes about the riff-raff going to college on the GI Bill. Back then, only the "right" people were supposed to be going to college, and that opened up significantly after the war. Some things apparently never change.

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. K&Fuckin'R

[crickets]

4. Translation: a well educated populace is harder to hoodwink.

If they're educated enough to see through your lies, how will get them to vote against their own self interests?