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In reply to the discussion: Why young people are right about Hillary Clinton [View all]Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)That said, I think he's in over his head when professing to understand the youth vote. By nature, kids only see what's directly in front if them. Not only have they not read one of Taibi's books on Wall Street but they couldn't even pick Iraq out on an unlabeled map.
What these kids do see is college debt. Free college would be a disaster. Kids would rush off to college and treat it as an extension of high school. The universities would take the flood of government money and build campus palaces thereby skyrocketing the cost of tuition to insane levels. The President and Warren offer realistic plans. The President proposes two years of free community college as a launching pad to a four year university to some and a high tech manufacturing education to others. Warren proposes to reduce college financing interest rates to the level at which the government can borrow. Those ARE realistic goals. Free college is not.