Eleanor Clift: SUICIDE - Embracing Medicare for All Will Put the Democratic Party on Life Support

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111. The demographic of CC system enrollees is not uniform. Some wealthy parents do indeed foot the

bill for their children to attend CCs, which in some communities, are feeder schools to excellent universities. And some employed older students are well able to pay.
As I said, no reason tuition can not be waived for students in need, work study and other grant programs expanded, while the system itself is in need. Our governor’s waiver program here does not demand a strict poverty level eligibility

I intended only to suggest that many solutions exist to make college affordable to all without adopting a free to all policy for which “the wealthy will pay”—as is said about all the new policies—when, in fact, this never ends up to be true. They pay more, fine, but so does the working middle class, retired folks, everyone really. Such is the case in Europe. The Yellow Jacket protestors are not protesting against capitalism, but against taxation. Who do they blame? They blame the high cost of social benefits and of course, immigrants they don’t want to share them with. The backlash has come in the rising popularity of the far right.

But if free college for all is to be a priority, then that should be one of perhaps two or three programs our party candidates endorse. Otherwise, we will be hard-pressed to win an election when we also insist on running on numerous other initiatives, all of which add up to an enormous investment, additional political and fiscal capital, while existing social safety nets need substantial shoring up and expansion.

Get the presidency first. Build consensus. Start making changes, not a social revolution. Is proposing cancelling almost ALL student debt a more worthy goal than addressing all other types of debt?