Many democratic governments throughout Europe offer their children a free college education. Some, like Denmark, even pay their children a living allowance of around $1000 to go to college. In South America, the government of Brazil offers its students a free college education. The United States, conversely, charges students exorbitant fees for education which has forced many poorer students to either join the military and utilize the GI Bill or take out huge loans in order to go to college.
In the richest country in the world, for the people in the poor districts throughout America, the only possibility of a free college education comes with the costs of possible loss of life, possible disfiguring injury, possible increases in mental illnesses like PTSD, increased incidences of suicide both during and after military service, and if you’re a female, possible sexual harassment and increased incidences of rape.
Some cogent thinking from Adam Vogal.
I worry about the future of my 7 year-old grandson in the face of this blight. What choices will he have in another 10 years? Will he be able to go to college if he wants to? Will the military snap him up like convenient carrion and march him off to the never-ending wars this country has given its youth?
All to protect the assets of sonsofbitches?
I can tell you at times this world frightens me. I literally get sick to my stomach imagining the next horror perpetuated by the psychopaths among us--and I'm not talking about the random losers who crawl out of their holes and create mayhem out of some twisted sense of paranoid logic.
I'm talking about the thieves and liars at the top, the users and abusers with their deliberate designs and American-flag lapel pins glistening under the strobe lights of the corporate media.
TS
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