Thom Hartmann on forgiving student debt.

[ariadne0614]

“But that doesn’t begin to describe the damage student debt has done to America since Reagan, in his first year as governor of California, ended free tuition at the University of California and cut state aid to that college system by 20 percent across-the-board.

After having destroyed low income Californians’ ability to get an education in the 1970s, he then took his anti-education program national as president in 1981.

When asked why he’d taken a meat-axe to higher education and was pricing college out of the reach of most Americans, he said that college students were “too liberal” and America “should not subsidize intellectual curiosity.”

Four days before the Kent State Massacre of May 5, 1970, Governor Reagan called students protesting the Vietnam war across America “brats,” “freaks” and “cowardly fascists,” adding, as The New York Times noted at the time, “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with. No more appeasement!”

Before Reagan became president, states paid 65 percent of the costs of colleges, and federal aid covered another 15 or so percent, leaving students to cover the remaining 20 percent with their tuition payments.”

More:

https://hartmannreport.com/p/forgiving-student-debt-isnt-giving?r=cyh5&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

[ymetca]

1. There aren't enough coffins

to stack on top the coffin of Ronald "Ray-Gun", autopen President par excellence.

I was shocked so many bought that "government IS the problem" sales pitch. Must have been all that cocaine up their noses.

Why would we put someone in charge of something they expressly hate? To kill it, of course. From the inside.

Now look where that's gotten us!

TFG glides down a golden escalator and says "America sucks!" And the rent-a-crowd cheers!

[LoisB]

3. Hear, hear!

[LoisB]

2. Saint Ronnie destroyed a lot of things.

[Jerry2144]

4. another grain of sand on the beach of things

that Ray Gun really screwed up in this country. He was the worst president for the American People. Until Dotard Donnie

[MichMan]

6. Why aren't the states still paying 65% Even Blue ones?

According to the article students are now paying 80% of the cost.

Reagan has been gone for 35 yrs now. Why did states, especially blue ones, quit funding higher education? It isn't because of anything Reagan did in the 80's.

[Igel]

7. I went to a UC school in the '90s.

I paid, as an in-state student, no tuition.

There were only "fees." $4k+, but the State of California was clear--*no* tuition for in-state students.

My first year, as an out-of-state student, I paid tuition. Second year? In state. < joy >

Later, I came to know the registrar at my school. I was approved as "in state" the last possible day for my incoming class. Every class after that had stricter rules, and few succeeded. Anita laughed. "Nobody read the fine print!" I did. Saved me $50k.