I feel crazy seeing some of these responses to Bernie's speech.

[Whimsey]

132. Well I am a pay as you go type of girl

I grew up in the era when elite colleges did not give financial aid, and if you could not pay for it you chose whether to put yourself in debt, so I picked a state university, paid for half of undergrad, graduating in three years while working 20-30 hours a week, and paid for all of law school while still working. So I came out in 81 with $15,000 in loans, which considering minimum wage and the tax rate at the time (which were considerably higher back then) was comparable to students coming out nowadays $40,000 - $50,000 in debt. College students need to have some skin in the game and need to make smart choices. Bernie's idea of making all public colleges free for anyone is idiocy. For one thing, there is limited space.

You know what will happen? There will be a bigger demand from kids coming out of the better high school programs for public universities which will boot out lower income kids. (Housing is about the same at both, but a $20,000-$30,000 savings in tuition will make it even more attractive for the upper echelon whose taxes are going to go up 20%). This happened in Scotland.

I have a daughter who is a Bernie supporter and she made a big deal of the freebies - and we paid for her college. So you can call it a smear, but there is truth in it. As I stated in a prior post, revolutions just result in a different group of haves and have nots, it never results in everyone being a have.