"Free College"

    I was listening to the Tom Hartman radio show today when a rather whinny guy congratulated Comrade Hartman for being so loyal to facts unlike so many (individualist) talk show hosts who yell over the caller and make up lies. Then the guy began a discussion of "free college" thus leaving the realm of facts. The fact is that there is no such thing as free college. It will be bought by the taxpayer through the force and violence of tax laws and government employees. Each student who eventually gets paid for work will become a taxpayer unless he is working illegally. His taxes will increase to reflect the costs of Americans giving "free" college education to fellow Americans and most probably to any illegal immigrant who can slip into our country. Can you imagine how much free college with beautiful American women and drinking binges Thurday through Sunday will attract illegal immigrants in addition to everything else the American sheep provide them once they slip in?
    Right now, it would probably be cheaper to pay increased taxes for your "free" college than to pay back student loans, but not for long. Everyone will want to go to college if it's "free." Colleges have been dumbed down so much, and colleges want to keep students's tuition and fees coming in so badly, that it is not that difficult to stay in many colleges and universities and still have plenty of time to be with the pretty girls (or boys) and drink copious amounts of beer. If going to college is like going to a well-stocked resort for four years, all of America and the rest of the world will be applying to American colleges. Then they can enroll in their classes and learn how to hate individualism, private property, constitutional rights, free enterprise and hard work. All the values that make their "free" college possible.
    If you don't want to have to support this scene - and, it will be impossible to support financially, but that won't stop the crazies-  you have to use another American value- the courage to speak out, early and long. Yes, courage has a cost. This undertaking is not for the weak, the passive, and the ignorant who want to remain that way. If you protest in a legal, moral way,  you will like yourself better, be stronger for it, and will have done the right thing.
    By the way, being truthful and specific, like I have tried to be here, are qualities you should look for in your presidential choice. Do that and then decide who is the least objectionable by those standards. I'm thinking Cruz. At least we know that he is pro-economic growth and much less likely than Trump to rule by executive orders. Obama has set the stage for that, and Trump looks like he's ready to play.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary