Reply #34: The more time you spend in college, the less likely you'll learn about...

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...politics from Rush Limbaugh. The correlation is fairly obvious, don't you think?

More important than voting patterns is the fact that people go to college and develop skills which are valuable. And then they go out in the world and get paid more than they would have been had they not gone to college. A college education is an income redistributive thing. It spreads wealth down and out among the children of the middle and working class.

Why do you think Republicans try so hard to destroy it?

I don't care if plenty of people live happy lives without money. What I care about is that big businesses are padding their profits by creating a world of depserate, low paid workers. I care that people who want to get rewarded for their labors do, in fact, get rewarded fairly for the labors. You know who's never going trade money for happiness? The super rich. Why do they always pretend that that's a reasonable option for the people they want to accept low paying jobs so that they can increase their profit margins?