Somewhere out there is a person who sees YOU as rich because he has so much less than you. He thinks you should share your resources with him like you think the wealthy should share theirs with you. Will you give him just $5000 a year to help him because he is not as fortunate as you are? Where do you get off thinking you are entitled to someone else’s money or goods or anything else? If the wealth of the top 1% was taken in its entirety, it would be a drop in the bucket in the big picture of America’s economy. I grew up poor. When I wanted to go to college, I worked three jobs and still ran out of money. I stopped after two years and worked full time and saved enough money to finish. It did not hurt me but made me a stronger person. I am not wealthy now, but I don’t believe I am entitled to any wealth that belongs to someone else! I am proud of what is mine because I worked and sacrificed for it—I did it! I didn’t have a car, a phone, new clothes, an apartment of my own at school—I lived in a dorm. It can be done without going to someone with your hand out. The story goes: A girl came home from college and told her dad she felt that there should be a redistribution of wealth. Everyone would be equal, and it would be the fair thing to do. Her father argued with her that it was socialism and he was against it. The argument raged for an hour, so to change the subject, her father asked about her best friend. Oh dad, she said, she parties every night, doesn’t go to class, and is failing, but she is the most popular girl around. The father said, why don’t you go to the dean and tell him you would be willing to give her one point off your A’s . That would lower your grades to a B, but raise hers from a D to a C. That way you both would pass. The daughter said NO WAY. I worked hard for my grades and did what I was supposed to. I’m not giving them away. The dad said and I don’t want to share my wealth that I have worked for.

William Deutschlander, the priviliged like Romney, believe they are ENTITLED? What is all this raving about the wealthy sharing their money and griping about how much the education costs. People believe they are ENTITLED to resources that aren’t theirs. What’s the difference? Those getting an education chose it as a way to better themselves. They will be better for it. $ 25,000 is like paying off a car and it can be done with a good job, easily. Then, the person can give some of his salary to the less fortunate if he wants, but he is not forced to. It’s his choice. If he doesn’t then the next person can do it himself. I can’t believe anyone with pride would take from someone else what isn’t theirs. Where is the character? So we struggle. That doesn’t hurt us, but taking what isn’t ours does. Changing a spark plug in a mower is important how? There are plenty of poor people who don’t know how to do that. Work to change the rules and change the fees, etc., but get off the wealthy. They are a drop in the bucket and all their money would make very little difference in the big picture. A poor man has NEVER offered me a job.

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I go along with the connection that a well educated work force can help the economy in this day and age. However, I don’t think suggesting someone go to a college they can afford is bad advice, and it certainly doesn’t say education isn’t important. Maybe it is time for people to quit worshiping ivy league schools and paying their horrific fees. It is possible to get a fine education from a local school.
As things stand, the government’s not responsible to pay for everyone’s higher education, as nice as that may sound. So to answer the writer’s question, that may be the reason people don’t clamor for the government to do something about skyrocketing university fees. Do we consider our government to be our nanny? Do we want a government that oversees every part of our society?
Another point is not everyone should go to college. Frankly, a university degree today isn’t what it once was.
Yes, we need skilled members of society; people skilled in all sorts of things not just college knowledge. And yes, our school systems do need up-dating. But what is the point if the youth are not motivated to be better educated unless they receive it on a silver platter? And I am not just talking about kids from wealthy families. Whose fault is that? You can force a person to the well, but you can’t make him drink.
As for the GI bill, it was a great thing, but to have the privileges of it, you had to have been in uniform ! Increasing the military today just to get a GI bill seems contrary to reducing our military might. Or are you suggesting hand-out for someone breathing on our soil?

The GOP also promotes suspicion of educated people, calling them elitist and invariably left wing liberal. Public schools across the country are being underfunded, privatized and their educational programs are being turned over to fundamentalists more interested in making children pray in school and learn that science is bunk. How is the United States planning to have the top shelf education they need to actually enter the 21st Century. Right now we see them trying to take the country back to the Dark Ages where one religion ruled intellectuals as witches and heretics and burned them at the stake or stoned them.

Romney’s plan will ensure that the wealthy get the education and everyone else won’t. Their creating a country with masters and an ignorant working class that believe their lies and accept their rule because it will keep them safe.

The fundamentalists don’t even send their kids to school anymore, they home brainwash/school them! If the parents are qualified and dedicated enough it works out, but if not, we in society will have to deal with it!

The Rich Believe that they are ENTITLED by God to rule over everyone else, thats why they are Rich, All else including Social Security, according to them should be forgone becasuse it is their ENTITLEMENT to brake contract to us lessor individuals, especially after we have carried our end of the bargain. I.e. as you (and I) have spent fourty or more years putting on hold even loosing our dreams so that they could have theirs they believe that we should just keep giving to them, and not take anything for ourselves. Good luck in your deserved retirement my friend.

A growing number of college graduates is a win win for the country. Education is one of the services government does that creates wealth the keeps on giving may times more than its costs. A dollar invested in a college education by the government returns many many times more than a dollar invested in a tax cut for a billionare. In short, education is a really profitable activity by the government and for society. On the other hand, for the individual student, a college eduction is a very risky proposition. A collee education does not guarantee success plus many professions and jobs the now require a college education do not pay very well, for example teachers and any police officer who is more than just a patrolman and many other professions that are vital to our society. Yet over the last 40 years we have shifted the cost of education from the state to the individual students. This is wrong and this is stupid. Young professionals burdened with great education debt, don’t start businesses, don’t buy houses or new cars, and all the other economic activities the grow the economy. The government needs to get back into the business of investing in our people. That will do multiple times more to grow the economy than any tax cut to the supper rich.

And by the way….”Liberty University,” is primarily a religious institution and is secondarily an institution of higher education. Are they taught to freely and critically think? I seriously doubt it. They teach that the earth is only 5000 years old, created in 7 days….etc…etc… I think science has shown that the Bible’s explaination of creation isn’t consistant with reality. It’s a very simplistic way explaining something very complex. Do I believe in God? Yes, very deeply. Do I believe that God created all of this? Yes, I do believe that there is a God that was the ultimate architect of the infinite universe and everything in it, including all living beings. But I believe the Bible’s story of creation is just that- a story.

More and more, Mittens shows that he’s basically an elitist prick.

I know a lot of people right now getting some pretty hefty grants, to go to college, for being displaced workers and mom’s on welfare. I went to college in the 70′s and I paid for everything myself. My parents didn’t pay for anything and the government didn’t either. I know the costs are outrages now and I can’t quite figure that one out. But, I wish someone would. It is like medical cost. Why has it grown so out of proportion with our earnings?