Hello Tim,   
      
    >>>> The > proposal by Sanders is PUBLIC institutions wuold be free.   
      
    TR>>> PUBLIC institutions are not *free*.   
      
    TR>>> When people apply the term PUBLIC to anything they are talking about   
    TR>>> *the taxpayers*.   
      
    >> Not just the taxpayers.  But taxpayers do fund a good portion.   
      
    TR> Unless you think all taxpayers carry a mouse around in their pocket...it   
   is   
    TR> taxpayer money that pays for federal `student loans'. It is taxpayer money   
    TR> that provide the vast majority of the *funding* for various higher   
    TR> institutions in *grants* for say...`global warming' studies...and an   
    TR> endless list of other sorts of *grants*.   
      
   Loans are paid back, with interest, over time.   
   Grants are gifts, never having to be paid back, by anybody.   
      
   In my view, all (public) schools of higher learning should be free.   
   Nobody should have to take out loans in order to better themselves.   
   By pursuing a quality education, students are helping both themselves   
   and society.  We wind up hurting ourselves by forcing them into   
   what amounts to bankruptcy, before they even get started in their   
   chosen profession/career.   
      
    TR> In the end when the book work is all done, the government (taxpayers) is   
    TR> paying the majority of the bills.   
      
   That should be society's gift.  A gift of gratitude.  Not a stone to   
   hang around a student's neck for twenty or thirty years.   
      
    TR> And typically, it's to fund `leftist' causes like bilking the taxpayers   
   out   
    TR> of BILLIONS of dollars in idiot schemes like the `global warming' scam.   
      
   You know what the problem with Obama's stimulus package was?   
   The stimulus was not large enough.  Obama should have doubled   
   it.  Or tripled it.  By keeping it so small, he really limited   
   what this country could do.  But at least he did something.   
   Which is far more than what the other side would have done.   
      
   I seriously doubt there is much any government can do about   
   climate change (global warming).  It is happening, and happening   
   so fast, that it is too late to be stopped.  Have we reached the   
   tipping point?  If not, we are mighty close to it.  How fast will   
   this climate change be?  You ain't seen nothin' yet.  Trust me   
   when I tell you.  You ain't seen nothin' yet.   
      
   Abrupt climate change is what real scientists are starting to   
   call it.  How abrupt?  The change scientists are suggesting will   
   happen (not if) can be experienced within ten years of having   
   reached the tipping point.   
      
   Once we have crossed that tipping point, it cannot be reversed.   
   That is the theory.   
      
   For more on this topic, ask Al Gore.  He has all the inconvenient   
   truth ...   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb   
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