What Bill C. and HRC forget about being able to afford college

[Ken Burch]

Bill is only in the position of being able to say that he can afford college now because, in the days when he actually went to college, he got government financial aid to get his undergraduate degree. It was only because he got this aid that he got the chance to earn a Rhodes Scholarship and go to Oxford.

He only got that chance because of low tuition and government help.

If it hadn't been for that, he would probably be a retired convenience store clerk or at best the owner of a McDonald's in Little Rock.

[Live and Learn]

1. +1000 nt

[TheFarS1de]

2. Please stop posting the Truth ...

It tends to trigger some users

[tecelote]

3. But, times have changed.

We are no longer worthy of those educational entitlements.

Same with a living wage, or even safe drinking water.

We are chattel, plain and simple.

Our value is of no great importance so why should our government give a damn?

[Ken Burch]

4. And people who treat us like that still feel entitled to demand our support

because "the others are worse".

It's politics-as-abusive relationship.

[merrily]

5. Fewer humans = one way to slow global warming caused by human activity.

[Katashi_itto]

6. K&R! Down with 3rd Way, the Vichy Dems

[secondwind]

7. my sentiments exactly.. this is what I tell folks.. he had HELP

[Kalidurga]

8. Stop being so mean to Hillary supporters.

It's negative crap like this that makes them go off and insinuate we are racists, sexists, and we are trying to make it so no one gets health care.

[daybranch]

9. Here in Ohio, Historical Black College enrollment is lowered

African American students can only afford to start and go approximately 1.5 years until They leave from lack of financial resources. These colleges Wilberforce and Central State provide key counterpoints to the rewriting of history by the wealthy. As a white man, I never recognized how much we needed historically black universities such as these until I saw what Howard Zinn learned from Spellman College as related in his book, the People's History of the United States. I think everyone should read this book which has been used for decades to teach college students to think and consider.
I support diversity and the continuation of historically black colleges, is key to the that. We old white guys have much to learn and it is very rewarding to do so. I also find Bernie's plans for education to be more supportive of the historical black colleges.t Go Bernie!

[Vinca]

10. Back when Bill went to college it was affordable even if you paid the full fee out of pocket.

You could go to a public college for free in California until Ronald Reagan, the King of Dim, became governor.