> Everyone seems to be getting all worked up over this free tuition.     
      
   Except it's not *free*!   
      
    > The  > proposal by Sanders is PUBLIC institutions wuold be free.    
      
   PUBLIC institutions are not *free*.    
      
   When people apply the term PUBLIC to anything they are talking about *the   
   taxpayers*.    
      
   In a PUBLIC institution there is still maintainence, upkeep, utilities, water,   
   employees, instructors, materials, etc etc.   
      
   None of that is *free*. Professors don't work for *free*. Administrators don't   
   work for *free*. Desks chairs, black boards, and all the infrastructure that   
   goes with a `college' are not *free*.    
      
   Somebody PAYS!    
      
        
    > In dealing with   
    > private institutions, they have to pay for their sports scholarships   
    > somehow, so the non-jocks will still owe $200K when their done.   
      
   And when we run out of the money of that *somebody* who's footing the bills   
   for all this...it fails.    
      
   Community college has been around for a long time. I had friends who went to   
   a community college in my home town who got excellent jobs later on in life.   
      
   People who can't afford Harvard or Yale do very well in community colleges.   
   But..we are already paying for healthcare for people who aren't even citizens,   
   educating children of people who don't even belong in the country, paying    
   food stamps...welfare....yadida yadida....   
      
   What we DON'T need is more financial burden added to the vast burden of debt   
   THIS president has saddled us with.   
   --- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32   
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