Take a look at this, and every voter should see it:
“This is the America we live in now. Basically to get a shot at a middle class life you've got to have some post high school technical training, two-year college, four-year college, maybe graduate school depending on who you are and what you’re ending up doing.
The position of the federal government has been, good luck to you, you’re on your own. The one thing they’ve done, they have’ done is lent tens of thousands of dollars to students.
It is crushing them. My proposal is to say, this isn’t right. What we have to do as a country is roll back that debt. So I have two parts to the proposal.
Part one is that we say that we’re going to roll back student loan debt for about 95% of students who have debt. That’s part one.
And part two is to make sure that we never get in this mess again on student loan debt and that is to make college universally available with free tuition and fees and to put more money into Pell grants so that students of color, so that our poorest students have real access to college and that we put real money into our historically black colleges and universities.
This is about opportunity for everyone. And can we talk about how to pay for...
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The hive dwellers lap this up with great enthusiasm!
If I were running I’d have to respond to every question like this with “what is your major, where are you going to school, why did you choose that, and what career do you hope to have?”
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