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WCGreen

(45,558 posts) Thu Dec 29, 2011, 11:36 AM Dec 2011

Lawrence O'Donnel's new spot on MSNBC talks about how much the GI bill helped

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build the greatest economic expansion in this country.

But it did more than that.

It delayed the entry into the job market for millions of people coming out of the service.

It also decompressed them from the hell of war by going into another set schedule that was not live threatening.

The GI bill created the professional class that was previously only open to the sons of the traditional wealthy.

And I really don't think Eisenhower wanted to see another Bonus Army situation happening again.

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Lawrence O'Donnel's new spot on MSNBC talks about how much the GI bill helped (Original Post) WCGreen Dec 2011 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author HereSince1628 Dec 2011 #1

I like to be a nudge to my RW brother in law about his being educated on the GI Bill. CTyankee Dec 2011 #2

And it wasn't just for undergrads. gkhouston Dec 2011 #3

Two of my uncles benefited strongly from the GI Bills WCGreen Dec 2011 #4

Yeah, my dad did, too. gkhouston Dec 2011 #5

If it were not for the GI bill I could not have gone to college, no possibility what so ever. ThomWV Dec 2011 #6

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CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

2. I like to be a nudge to my RW brother in law about his being educated on the GI Bill.

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 12:16 PM

Dec 2011

He's also on SS and Medicare so I ding him on that, too.

Small government, my ass...

gkhouston

(21,642 posts)

3. And it wasn't just for undergrads.

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 12:32 PM

Dec 2011

This guy... the person most responsible for that big space telescope in Puerto Rico?

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb10/GordonObit.html

Guess what he was doing when WWII broke out?

Teaching math to middle-schoolers.

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)

4. Two of my uncles benefited strongly from the GI Bills

Reply to gkhouston (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 03:23 PM

Dec 2011

One became an engineer and the other a college professor.

gkhouston

(21,642 posts)

5. Yeah, my dad did, too.

Reply to WCGreen (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 07:31 PM

Dec 2011

He was from way back in the hills. He'd finished high school, but sixth grade was as far as his dad had ever gotten. His parents laughed when he told them he was going to college...not to be mean, but it was just so unheard of for someone from that neck of the woods.

ThomWV

(19,841 posts)

6. If it were not for the GI bill I could not have gone to college, no possibility what so ever.