Thanks for that link @Trendswithbenefits - That explains quite a lot about Why exactly the drive for more “education” is so strong and the drive towards actual learning is so weak !
Interesting too that boys and young men are refusing to go to “College” in ever increasing numbers.
It cannot last of course without actually destroying the financial systems of every Country in the “Western World” !
The scam started with the federal guaranty student loan program, before that you could pay your college tuition by working a summer job it might take you a year longer to graduate but you would do so debt-free.
And don’t forget the Text Book scam, when before you could buy used textbooks, now most classes are taught from a new textbook every year making old textbooks worthless and costing students hundreds of dollars in new books every semester
look at everything the government gets involved with and cost go out of sight
UK PM today announced increased spending on affordable housing, improve access to low deposit mortgages for 1st time buyers, fix care home funding, increase green energy, one to one teaching for kids who are behind, renew infrastructure etc etc.
Sounds like what you guys call ‘socialism’ sounds more like common sense from a Conservative PM to me.
That’s the thing about labels - they belong to the past century.
I think its a little fanciful to conclude that conservatism has undergone a conversion to socialism. Bear in mind that the Conservatives held power for about two-thirds of modern times before these current policies were found to be appropriate.
And why were they found appropriate right now at this very time? Maybe recent circumstances that got us where we are were a little untypical - global financial crisis 2008, resulting in 10 years of highly unpopular Conservative austerity causing massive damage to public services, followed by Brexit referendum decision
followed by covid-19 pandemic, prompting a shut-down of almost the entire UK economy probably resulting in a new recession. All in all, the UK’s 2020 situation is possibly only comparable with that in 1939. Small wonder the current government is deploying extraordinary emergency measures.
there are lots of diseases that kill people so they could keep this going for the next most deadly disease and the next one after that, there is no end game except for our freedom
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Sounds like what you guys call ‘socialism’ sounds more like common sense from a Conservative PM to me.
That’s the thing about labels - they belong to the past century.
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what socialism really is, is politicians buying votes, both the right and the left do it. This is why I support a balanced budget amendment. Take away the ability to print and spend money made out of thin air will go a long way toward fixing the problem
I do agree with you on the labels crap, also known as Identity Politics