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The Real Scandal Is the Destruction of College Affordability for the Working Class
 The ability of rich kids to get into the top schools because their parents either bribed some low-level functionary or test proctor, or because their parents bribed the entire school with a $2.5 million gift like Jared Kushner's dad did with Harvard, is made triply galling when we see those same rich people supporting politicians who revel in stripping money away from public schools and colleges. When Reagan came to office and made Bill Bennett Education Secretary, about 80 percent of the cost of college was paid for by state and federal government; Bennett, like Betsy DeVos, began the process of reversing that process that Abraham Lincoln had started by creating over 50 public "Land Grant Colleges" like Michigan State University. Today, because of four decades of Republican efforts, 80 percent of the cost of college is now borne by students with tuition, radically raising the cost of education and leading to a crisis of $1.7 trillion in student loans that can't be eliminated by bankruptcy. The rich now only screw our kids by putting their own at the top of the educational citadel, but then they pull up the ladder and keep out working class people with high tuition that results from the Reaganomics destruction of state and federal funding for college. -Thom |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Article: " Deism" by Wikipedia.
Bible: " Matthew 25:40" " The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me'". Article: " CRISPR" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Special Report: Tribal Camp in South Texas Is Vowing to Resist Trump's Wall- Candice Bernd, Editor/Reporter - Truthout.org 
Article: " Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists", Jan. 1. 1802 by Thomas Jefferson. " Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." |
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