Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
You're stuck on this $20 an hr minimum wage thing. I'm looking all over the place and not seeing this as an official grievance. So we're gonna scratch this altogether.
its on the page i believe YOU LISTED where their manifesto is posted

Let me address this free education thing while I have a minute

We have spent over 1.2 TRILLION DOLLARS on "terror war" since the end of 2001. I'm not gonna include the war on drugs right now. That's taxes that you've paid, I've paid, everyone who lives here has already paid. Lets also say that the total cost of ONLY the operations finding and capturing/killing OBL and Sadam Hussein cost $200b. Might be over guesstimating but let's just use this.

Let's also assume that on average, it costs $20k to send a kid to an accredited state university for 4 years. Out of that remaining balance of 1 trillion dollars, you could send 50 MILLION kids to state universities, or HEAVILY subsidize 100 MILLION.

But this is really a grievance for DC.
Ok great, that money is gone, spent, done with. You cant travel back in time and get it, and NEWSFLASH the money we HAVE SPENT has sunk us DEEPER in debt. So merely saying YOU think you ahve a better way of spending a trillion dollars doesnt make you the savior. The problems we face are NOW, not yesterday. So , you cannot get that 1.2 trillion dollars back, so again i ask you how do you intend to pay for all this?

We are running at 1.3 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR in deficits RIGHT NOW. so that 1.2 trillion you estimate we spent, that covers 1 YEAR OF OBAMA SPENDING. That makes us BREAK EVEN. think about that. So the 10 years of war amount to burying 2008s DEFICIT BY ITSELF then we are at zero. That doesnt wipe out the 9 trillion we had in debt before then, and the 1.3+ trillion PER YEAR we accrue now. So no, the war not happening doesnt even come CLOSE to solving your problem of money.

And, HOW IS THAT WALL STREETS FAULT????!!!! The Iraq/afghan war was DC NOT BANKERS ON WALL STREET. so why arent we protesting them?

I think you are starting to see the other side, keep walking into the light, youre almost there.

Also, college in this country is a PRIVLEDGE, not a right. High school education is where the states burden on education ends. College is not for everyone and MANY people choose NOT to go. So , if you get good grades in HIGH school you get the OPPORTUNITY to attend college. Now i agree that some kids may not have the finances to get to college and pay for it, for them there ARE govt loans EASILY accessible. Professors have to get paid, staff has to get paid, clerks, secretaries, phone systems etc have to get paid for. thats what your tuition goes to.

Why should the govt pay for anyones college education? For Free? Why? If your beef is with colleges CHARGING too much, then why arent we protesting THEM??? What does that have to do with Wall Street?