It's no wonder the total amount of money Americans owe for higher education is now more than what we owe on credit cards.
We need our colleges to thrive.
An affordable college education has been a key to the rising standard of living that our country enjoyed for many decades. It provided us with educated workers who made our industries successful.
Access to college in the future would buffer our country from many of the shocks in the coming decades. We would be better prepared to support the new growth industries, and we would have voters better able to hold our public officials accountable.
[...] To pay for this, Congress should eliminate the outrageous tax breaks that President Bush gave to the millionaires and billionaires. Educating the next generation is much more important than continually padding the bank accounts of the wealthy.
One last thing: Congress shouldn't focus on providing just glorified job training.
Every American deserves access to real higher education so as to learn how to fulfill the responsibilities of citizenship and appreciate the cultural treasures that our ancestors have left to us.
Making college affordable is the best investment in our country's economic and political future. And it's the honorable thing to do for strapped students and families.
Again - This link. Too many mental midgets want only glorified job training - for your children. That is not at all what the game's about. Without educated voters, look what it has allowed. And look at who wants the status quo.
Look at: Who wants the glorified job training? Who wants a giant debt load on each young person entering into the national economy? Who does that benefit? What are their motives? Are they being decent or indecent people creating such a questionable status quo?
They cannot be reformed, until we awaken to the need to reform them. To teach them decent manners, in the economic-fiscal world that each of us must live within. They have enough.
Why do they want to hang a big anchor around the necks of the children of others? Go figure. It's the first step. Then get active, to fix things, to bring the excessive to reasonableness.
Not easy. But necessary.
That or let them continue exploiting you and your children. They are not my children. They are yours. What do you owe them?