Independent Voter Platform - Education

by ron corvus

America has long bragged about being the most wealthy nation on Earth. Well, it's time for us to put our money where our mouth is. There is no good, legitimate reason why America should not provide fully-paid universal college education for each and every American graduating from high school. There are bad reasons why America has NOT implemented fully-paid education for all:

1.) Corporations profit wildly from student loans;

2.) If our government provided fully-paid college education, our government would not be able to easily recruit citizens for the U.S. military. Our government dangles the carrot and stick promise of money for a college education. A poll of U.S. military members overwhelmingly cite "money for college" as their primary reason for joining the military.

One reason our government should provide fully-paid college tuition is because other nations provide fully-paid college tuition for each high school graduate. India provides single-payer, fully-paid college tuition for each Indian graduating from high school. Now India has more college graduates than America has citizens!!!!

And another thing: Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton call for American high school graduates to donate a whole year of their life working for the government for free, in exchange for a discount on college tuition. This is particularly numbing, considering while your kid is working for the government for free, foreign high school grads are actually going to college during the year your kid is workin' free for the man. Foreign college graduates are not strapped with huge burdenous corporate debt upon graduation as American kids are here. Moreover, American college kids are two to three years behind foreign students.

r o n ron@roncorvus.com