Maddog wrote:Well, college wouldn't be any more free than our military is, but you are correct. People seem to find the money (and loans) for the stuff they want.
Conservatives are often hypocritical when they preach small government, yet throw it at the military, police and prisons.
Fear is used by both parties in the US. Fear of no healthcare, fear of guns, fear of gays, fear of Muslims, fear of nukes. Stir up that fear adequately and folks tend to not care what the "safety" costs in terms of money or freedom.
The difference is the fear people have of financial bankruptcy/hardship due to privatised healthcare is very real - number 1 cause of bankruptcy, with a large number of those actually having insurance when they fell ill - let alone the actual suffering caused by not getting treated because of lack of healthcare.
Same with the crippling lifetime of debt caused by college tuition. And when that bubble pops who will end up picking up the tab? the taxpayer anyway through bailouts. The grim irony here is college grads will end up paying twice.
Meanwhile spending trillions on killing poor people in the middle east hasn't made you one bit safer.... quite the opposite its made you less safe.