Bill: “People like me and Hillary can afford to go to college. The government can’t help everyone."

[JackRiddler]

37. Essentially, perhaps, the quote comes across as

"I've got mine." But granting your point: like a lot of welfare-hate politics -- in which the Clintons have specialized -- this is pandering to manufactured resentment about problems that barely exist.

Rich people's kids generally go to private colleges, but if they were to make use of free public education, so what? Long as the rich are paying their share of the financing! Why should we discriminate against young people based on the class of their parents - who may or may not be supporting them? In any case, a very minor aspect of this issue. It's more important to make the 0.1% pay on the financing end than to charge tuition for their kids.

Here is what matters: Public higher education in the US was once free for all who qualified. It is free or almost free for all in many countries that maintain excellent university systems with rich research wings, and it should be free again in the United States, the supposedly richest country of all that is supposedly richer than ever.