Bernie offers false hope and fails to address the real problem for the college bound.

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82. It is a pipe dream, but it's aspirational and it gives people a rallying point.

Obama, if you recall, proposed free two year community college and post-high school vocational training for everyone five months ago at the SOTU. Congress has basically told him to fuck himself, so you can imagine what kind of reception Sanders will get.

This kind of thing, though, has a goal to let people know where the gentleman stands on issues in a general way. It's not going to happen any time soon--probably not in his, or my, lifetime. It might not happen at all.

It's a way of saying "I'm FOR THIS kind of thing, not THAT kind of thing, be "that kind of thing" war, tax cuts for the rich, or whatever those Republicans are screeching about, these days.

People who actually think he has a hope in hell of getting that passed just don't understand the process. It's a "nice thing to say" is all. It makes me smile, certainly.

Of course, I know how things work, so I won't be burbling along with any "false hope" about this proposal.....