Regarding government-paid higher education and health care: First, we need to understand that neither of these programs are rights. Our rights were created to ensure our freedoms solely. These things are the individual’s responsibility to ensure their future, based on their ambition and ability only.
Second, as we have seen with health care and most other government-run programs, it is fraught with waste and mismanagement, plus disproportionately expensive for the working class.
Public education is another cash cow that burdens almost every school district, and liberal ideals have run many off to private schools to escape the lack of structure, basic “3 Rs” instruction and discipline that is essential to preparing children to become responsible, coping adults.
Lastly, nationalizing college education removes the incentive for colleges to be cost-effective or for students to pick an education they can afford that will be able to sustain them in the future. It throws all that responsibility on the backs of taxpayers who have chosen other paths or can’t afford it.
James Chrisner
Mt. Pleasant Township