patrickat:

iamsosmart-smrt:

how-to-be-a-sad-bitch:

i cannot fucking believe i never realized this 

So as a division officer to nearly 60 sailors over 3 years. I asked every single one. “What made you join the Navy?” Here is the breakdown.
80% – To pay for college
10% – To get out of a bad family situation
5% – Family Tradition
5% – Because of 9/11.

“Would poor people literally risk their lives to win access to things that the rich take for granted if that weren’t set up as the only way to get them?”

Free college isn’t the solution though because that would not only lower the standard of education and make degrees worthless but also cause taxes to skyrocket.

The reason why college is expensive in America is because most of the tuition money is going to administrators who don’t really do anything and because the government subsidises college.

And universal health care will cause the same problem as free college, people won’t be able to pay that much tax and whatever health care you get will be low quality.

Those things need to be more accessible I order to get people out of poverty but making them free will cause other problems because nothing in life is truly free.