Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to guarantee every American a job

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133. Yeh, more free stuff the country cannot afford. If the government guarantees a job at $15/hr its

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another welfare program. If someone wants a job that pays well, then they should get the necessary training that job requires, and after they have the required training, they apply for openings in that field. It works for the vast majority of us, why does Bernie want to reinvent the wheel. I come from a family of nine children, and am African American. No one gave us anything, everyone worked to put themselves through college. When I mentioned this before in a post that my oldest sister went to medical school under the Armed Forces Health Professional Scholarship Program (AFHPSP) and came away from Medical School and having served a two year Residency, with no debt (the Government paid her college debt off in exchange for her serving 4 years as a Medical Doctor in the Armed Forces). She chose the Air Force to serve her post-education commitment. She enjoyed it so much, that she went on active duty each summer while in medical school to earn extra spending money for when she returned to school each fall, and the opportunity to visit and work in different Air Force facilities around the country and around the world.

When I posted about her experience during the last election to counter Bernie supporters claims that one could not go to college without accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of student loan debt, I was told: "Well what if you don't want to serve in the military?" My response to that was:"we all make our own choices". But if you don't have wealthy parents, and if you make a choice that results in you incurring thousands of dollars of student loan debt, you shouldn't expect the Federal Government and the taxpayers to bail you out of your debt. Why should I, or anyone else, have to pay someone else's Student Loan Debt? And please don't tell me that other countries do it. I know what other countries do because I was stationed in Europe and surrounded by European countries when I was in the US Army because my parents didn't have the money to send me to college. I got the opportunity to visit many of these European countries because most were less than a days ride on a bus, or an overnight train ride. I served in the US Army for 4 years and 8 months to be able to afford to go to college without incurring massive student load debt and I came out of college owing just $5,000 which I paid off in two years after graduating from college in 1984. Also, I managed to complete my 4 year degree in 3 years because I was older, wiser, and more mature than the average college freshman I entered college with.