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Comment Re:They are objectively wrong (Score 1) 189

>The ruling elite has decided they do not want you to be educated

No, the ridiculous price of tuition is actually the result of the government encouraging people to go to college. They will pay whatever 'need' is, and 'need' is whatever the price of college is... so colleges keep raising the price, year after year, much higher than inflation.

It's not going to the professors, either. At my local state college, only 13% of the budget goes to professors (including benefits).

At community colleges here in California, 50% goes to direct instruction. Why? Because state law mandates the 50 percent rule. So community colleges are reasonably priced and often do a better job actually teaching with smaller classes than state colleges, but I guess we have a good 9-3 football team at state, so...

Comment Re:Those who cannot remember history (Score 1) 262

Obama spoke out but we Europeans still believed in protection under the US nuclear umbrella.
It sure helped that Trump made the US expectation of more European investments clear.
But before anyone in Europe could actually improve their defenses it was only Trump that in his usual unpredictable way effectively withdrew from the written and silent agreements.
And then his lies...

Comment Re:Those who cannot remember history (Score 2, Interesting) 262

I agree with much of what you just wrote.
At the end of WWII Europe was given safety guarantees called the US Nuclear Umbrella that did not require them to keep huge armies.
Although, during the Cold War most European nations did have significant armies but after the fall of the Soviet Union they quickly started to spent their money on more profitable subjects.
Then this criminal Putin came to power but heh, we have a NATO chapter 5 and like in WWII the US will come to our rescue, one of the reasons most countries did not invest in nuclear weapons.
But now along comes this unusual friend of Putin, Trump, and he wants to retreat to his side of the Atlantic.
Many but not all European nations realize they'll have to invest in and set up their own defense, just a pity not all see the need for rearmament and some like Viktor Orban look at Putin as a trading partner, Orban already gave up on an independent legal system and free press so the Russian system is not so different, right?

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