(12-02-2017, 06:47 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: The student loan and tuition rebate treatment merely levels the playing field with those who save for their own or their kids' education. Why should people who manage their money well be penalized relative to those who save nothing and depend on loans or payment in kind for their education?
Tell me how a poor child with great college scores and great talent can save $80K for college through work. The savings that most kids have for college end up going for clothes, recreational reading, an occasional movie ticket, a dinner date, or maybe (if 21+) a drink.
We are going to throw away talent that could be our great engineers, creative people, and executives, perhaps to be domestic servants and farm laborers because they cannot pay taxes on a college scholarship.
Quote:I understand how people who are receiving government benefits and fear they might be forced to take jobs they consider to be beneath them might object, but for those of us who actually work, pay taxes, and support the rest of society, it is merely justice.
In my case I consider suicide an option, as I hate my life and see no other escape. End of my suffering. I have quit taking my blood pressure medication. I see America becoming a political and economic Hell as it is. Many workers must suffer with a smile, which in its way has one odious feature that a jailbirds do not have. Prisoners are not expected to praise their jailers.
Quote:That said, we are in far more dangerous times than the Civil War because this time, the crisis war is likely to be fought with nuclear weapons.
That's true -- and we also have a President with the sort of personality characteristic of the hot-headed monarchs who bungled their way into World War I over perceived slights.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.