What needs to be studied in our educational system is the astronomical increase is costs that have occurred over the past 40 years. Unbelievable inflation in educational costs, out done by only by the costs of healthcare!! Why?
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How the Threat of an ‘Educated Proletariat’ Created the Student Debt Crisis The roots of today’s student debt crisis trace back to a promise broken decades earlier –– when politicians chose to pass the burden of funding higher education onto students. www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysi...
aug 20, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 0 • view
I knew Ronnie Raygun was the source of much of what ails America now, but hot damn!! He truly was the inspiration for ALL of what is wrong with America now. Many Never Trumpers, former GOPers, etc that have shifted their stance on the modern GOP - are still Raygun fans, meaning they remain fools!!
aug 20, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
As Thom Hartmann often says-- "It all started with Reagan"! www.thomhartmann.com
aug 20, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Right! As soon as I started adulting American life went steadily downhill
aug 23, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
The answer to most "why" questions in the U.S. over the course of the past sixty or so years is "Reagan, racism, or most likely both." Such as:
aug 19, 2025, 1:18 am • 8 3 • view
🎯 The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat” In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education. theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...
aug 20, 2025, 11:36 am • 2 1 • view
"Freeman’s remarks were reported...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].”'"
aug 20, 2025, 11:36 am • 2 1 • view
I’m thinking about it from the perspective of there being a fundamental change in the core function and values of these institutions. It is likely that this shift is just mirroring broader changes in society at large. The valuing of money over people/knowledge/philosophy/etc…
aug 19, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 1 • view
Yes, that is Reagan and racism. I'm not being flip, there's a lot of scholarship on this question and that's the answer. ruor.uottawa.ca/items/4c7d52... www.jstor.org/stable/42926... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... muse.jhu.edu/article/5920...
aug 19, 2025, 1:46 am • 3 1 • view
Thanks for these links.
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