Chris Christie doesn't understand the meaning of the word free

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3. How old is that loudmouth?

He must not remember what it was like in NJ 46 years ago.

I grew up in New Jersey back when state colleges were extremely inexpensive. At the same time, public colleges next door in Pennsylvania were free. So were public colleges in California.

Tuition at Rutgers University was $200 a semester for me in 1969-70. Add student fees, room and board, and the cost was about $1,500 a year. My dad probably earned about $12,000 a year. He had to borrow some from a friend, but he was able to send me to Rutgers without going into bankruptcy or even serious debt. I always had one or more jobs to pay for textbooks, etc. while in school, and for my final year I paid tuition with a part-time newspaper job. .

There is probably no way on earth someone earning a bookkeeper's salary could send a kid to Rutgers full-time today without the use of huge scholarships and/or loans. College education has become out of reach for average Americans.

Let's not forget, too, that it was Gov. Ronald Reagan who forced California's state colleges to start charging tuition.

These Republican bastards want to kill college education for everyone but the rich. Fuck them.