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13. Collapse of middle class followed decline of liberal education.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 02:04 PM

Feb 2012

Liberal education would have "given us our cake and let us eat it too." Instead, we get "practical education" and we're paid nothing for it. We need a liberal education to fight off the foolishness of "free-for the rich" markets and the phony promises of libertarianism.

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