Sen. Warren’s Bill Gets Cold Shoulder as Student Loan Rates Spike Monday

[Zorra]

6. No surprise. An educated populace is a threat to the rule of wealthy private interests. Elizabeth

is one of the few Senators who is not owned by these private interests. You can expect her to be ignored and isolated by the compromised majority of both Democratic and Republican Senators as she continues to fight against the banksters for democracy and the 99%

"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to ; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."

"...wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government..."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree."

"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness...Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils [tyranny, oppression, etc.] and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance."

Quotes by Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party