It’s wild.

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    10 months ago

    How the fuck do you come to the conclusion that you’re spending too much money on education

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      10 months ago

      With Reagan, it was because Republicans at the time thought there would be too many educated poor people. One of his advisors (Roger Freeman) said:

      “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat…That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go to college]…If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”

      He was basically worried about a revolution because of it.

      Source: https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

      There’s other sources if you don’t like the Intercept.

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      10 months ago

      Easy

      They are talking at the dinner table about doing things that are against my self interest. I don’t want those damn kids learning that. Therefore cut education

      Rather that you know the market place of ideas that I espouse; as long as they match what I believe.

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      10 months ago

      R E A G A N.

      The Trump era began by ripping out the solar panels on the White House and tricking blue collars into voting against themselves.

      It was, and is, fucking awful.