Dragon
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- Sep 16, 2011
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Amazing. Well, no -- commonplace and unsurprising. But it should be surprising. It's pathetic that it's unsurprising.
This reminds me of the discussion about health care reform. Raise that issue and everyone on the right starts spouting theory as to why it won't work or can't be done or it would ruin the quality of our health care or result in a tyranny or whatever. Meanwhile, many of us on the left are pointing out, "But you know, universal health care has BEEN DONE BEFORE. You don't have to just GUESS! You can look at how they do things in every other advanced country in the WORLD! Check out how it's done in France, England, Germany, Canada, Japan -- each of these systems is somewhat different, and each has its pluses and minuses, but they're all better than the way we do things here. Don't just toss theory around, check out the real world."
This is exactly the same. Free universal higher education? Oh, too expensive! Oh, who's going to pay for it! Oh, think of all the lazy slackers it will attract!
As with medicine, every advanced nation in the world has subsidized and, if not entirely free, at least dramatically less expensive higher education than we do. Do a search for "Education in France" or "Education in Germany" or "Education in Japan" and explore how it's done in the real world.
Of course you won't do this. The right is not fact-based.
This reminds me of the discussion about health care reform. Raise that issue and everyone on the right starts spouting theory as to why it won't work or can't be done or it would ruin the quality of our health care or result in a tyranny or whatever. Meanwhile, many of us on the left are pointing out, "But you know, universal health care has BEEN DONE BEFORE. You don't have to just GUESS! You can look at how they do things in every other advanced country in the WORLD! Check out how it's done in France, England, Germany, Canada, Japan -- each of these systems is somewhat different, and each has its pluses and minuses, but they're all better than the way we do things here. Don't just toss theory around, check out the real world."
This is exactly the same. Free universal higher education? Oh, too expensive! Oh, who's going to pay for it! Oh, think of all the lazy slackers it will attract!
As with medicine, every advanced nation in the world has subsidized and, if not entirely free, at least dramatically less expensive higher education than we do. Do a search for "Education in France" or "Education in Germany" or "Education in Japan" and explore how it's done in the real world.
Of course you won't do this. The right is not fact-based.