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It's time to shine the light on the free college nonsense, and the myth that the trades are no place to be. If we're going to have free college, then we need free trade schools. You can earn a good living, and be prosperous as a trademan if you get the right certifications, and apply yourself. You won't have to worry about getting paid ONLY minimum wage, because you'll never be close.
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Free isn't the issue, affordable is.
We don't need FREE college and FREE trade schools, we need colleges and trade schools which are affordable for EVERYONE who wants/needs them.
And if that eventually boils down to deserving and capable poor folks getting the free leg up that they need, so be it.
If both your parents work full time, and they're making something like 50 grand a year between them, they can't afford to send you to college or even a trade school, and as their kid you can't afford
to take on a whopper student loan that winds up strapping you to the hamster wheel instead of garnering you the upward mobility you sought in the first place.
That's the kind of income profile we're really talking about here...families that take in significantly MORE THAN 50 thousand a year can't afford it.
And if they have kids who can make the grade and who show the desire and initiative to learn and apply, and we DON'T invest in them, then we're actually cheating ourselves as a society and allowing
poverty to win.
The entire country doesn't need free college, and the entire country doesn't need free trade school.
But a very large portion of us DO...just not the ENTIRE country.
This subtle difference in reasoning is erased by slogans like "free college" and the political Right certainly enjoys chewing the scenery by tying it to their biggest whine of all: "FREE STUFF!".
It's NOT "free stuff", it's an investment in a deserving slice of the younger generation, and an investment in our future.