Ironically, it’s the poor and middle class who are being priced out of the very thing that enables their children to seek a better life. At the same time the United States is being outclassed by China, India, and others who are producing increasing numbers of highly educated graduates. Soon they will be eating our lunch, relegating us to second class status on the world stage. Tough problems demand "outside the box," often radical solutions. That’s why we should give serious consideration to providing free college and trade school education to all. Too costly you say? It’s estimated that the cost of tuition at public universities across the nation amounted to between $70 to $100 billion dollars. Sounds expensive until you realize providing free higher education for American citizens would cost slightly more than the Bush tax cuts for the top 2 percent of the country.

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by Dr. C. Alonzo Peters, AlterNet.

Posted: November 18th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.