re: #310 albusteve

our kids are well adjusted little geniuses, the schools are fine, university is for anyone who wants to go…14% unemployment is no cause for alarm…10+ trillion in debt is no problem…Mexico is a friendly country that would never harm us…it will eventually rain endlessly out west, and HRC is a very attractive woman…yup

Well, Steve, the third one is actually right, has been since the 1960s. I got my Ivy League education by working my ass off, to be sure, but that would not have been nearly enough without a healthy contribution from the taxpayers. My tuition at Cornell was more than my dad made in a year. The GI Bill paid part of it and would have paid everything at many other institutions. I was also able to get an academic scholarship and a bunch of other help, some from corporate and private donors and some from the taxpayers on top what they were already paying via the GI Bill. I humbly submit that I have repaid it many times over in just the taxes I have paid on my personal income to say nothing of whatever other benefit to the nation might have accrued from my work.