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Old 05-30-2012 | 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
Yeah, like the yellow-ribbon veterans (speaking as veteran myself), totally free tuition to ANY school? Who in their right mind thought that was a good idea, yet we bankrolled a good number of these guys. I could maybe understand doing it for any public institution, although again the cost may be still way out of control, but they covered ridiculous expensive private school for a certain number that happened to get the the "free-for-all" program (before congress realized their error). Talk about just dumping money. On the other hand, I don't know of many college students that are expecting "free" tuition, although I know what generation created the huge drain on resources and excessive spending way beyond our ability to recapture...
You lost me here. Perhaps paragraphs might help.

1. You are equating the GI Bill which rewards vets for service during their prime college years with free tuition for all?

2. I was very specific in whom I said wanted free college education. The fleabaggers AKA, the occupy wallstreet movement. Do you deny this?

3. I am all for eliminating federal government subsidies. Nothing has done more to drive up the cost of tuition than the federal government. The loans, grants, and mandates have distorted the market with predictable results. Just like medicine.