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In reply to the discussion: Prez: “He’s very down-to-earth, someone who really cared and wants to make a difference" [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)In the meantime, why don't you read about the reality of the world situation and the people behind the corrupt money engine seeking to screw us all through manipulation of the largest levels of cash?
Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo - By Greg Palast
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023515415
Obama is ONE OF THEM. So is much of congress, etc. You might become concerned if you read it.
Also note that not very long ago, education was very, very different:
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/8_reasons_young_americans_dont_fight_back_how_the_us_crushed_youth_resistance/#.UhZ1YsMTgSA.twitter
1. Student-Loan Debt. Large debtand the fear it createsis a pacifying force. There was no tuition at the City University of New York when I attended one of its colleges in the 1970s, a time when tuition at many U.S. public universities was so affordable that it was easy to get a B.A. and even a graduate degree without accruing any student-loan debt. While those days are gone in the United States, public universities continue to be free in the Arab world and are either free or with very low fees in many countries throughout the world. The millions of young Iranians who risked getting shot to protest their disputed 2009 presidential election, the millions of young Egyptians who risked their lives earlier this year to eliminate Mubarak, and the millions of young Americans who demonstrated against the Vietnam War all had in common the absence of pacifying huge student-loan debt.
I don't much care for the direction in which this country is headed. I am still capable of being stunned by those who do not share this concern, however.