But still, even today, tertiary education is a fantastic deal for the would-be degree-seeker. There's a lifetime allotment for each citizen (up to $155,000), and if you finish one degree and still feel hungry, you can do another. Mangia! You may have to take out a state-sponsored loan, but repayment is tied to your ability to repay. If you choose to get a degree in art, you can, without some f*cking loan thug threatening to ruin your life before it's begun, and leaving poor hungry artist, you, thinking about joining the Army. Tsk-tsk. And they have a decent safety net (not generous) that keeps many people afloat.
The whole system is, while flawed, a model of generosity compared to the nastiness of the American Dream con. From what I can see, capitalism is keen and healthy here, lots of millionaires.
Moratorium On Wars Everywhere
A Brown University study has reckoned that the US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4 trillion. Further, they report, 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases have been put into the air.
Let's pretend that Climate Change, plus Covid-19 and the pandemics to come are the Terror we must fight to survive as a species. Maybe, if we put a profit motive to it, we can come up with a cure for Climate Change in 9 months.
Audit the Pentagon; Discontinue Reliance on Contractors for Wars
By some accounts, up to $32T is missing and accounted for over the years. Think: Infrastructure and guaranteed HEW along lines similar to that described above. $32T.
As for war contractors. Baaaad. No morality. War should be a necessity built on existential threat, not world hegemony. We could see a definition of evil as the desire and intention to cause others serious harm or worse, either physically or psychologically, and to derive joy from such behavior. (Already we take into custody folks who are a legitimate danger to themselves or others, to preserve the peace and/or to help *wink* them.) But the definition would include bankers and Wall Street f*ckers who intentionally build housing markets and make bundles of cash off the knowing expectation of the total inability to repay mortgages. Sure, such thinking implies that capitalism has to be reigned in. So what? to employ a common Cappie expression.
Give the UN Cajones
First we fobbed off the League of Nations, created after the War to End All Wars *wink* to prevent future wars. Then we had more wars anyway and the League became irrelevant. Never again requires eternal vigilance. Ask the Israelis. We'll just clown around and end up with more atrocities piled high on our flapjack plate, syrupped over by the MSM. Because we.just.don't.get.it. The Suicide Club was alive and kicking millennia ago. It only got more efficient with technology. But same ol watering hole disputes.
Now we have the United Nations, but America won't listen to their proclamations -- IPCC means nothing -- although the US has a partially world-controlling seat on the permanent security council, and doesn't always pay its dues to the UN (a billion dollars in arrears). Like the League, the UN was supposed to be a more earnest attempt at making sure nation-states came together to keep the peace and to solve critical global issues as they arise. But few people even want to be caught dead in one of their tee shirts, meaning the whole lot of them will end getting bundled and sent to some far flung place like Papua New Guinea and get worn by people who don't understand why the crazy gods threw away a perfectly svelte tee.
American power brokers took away the bull's cajones; it's time to give them back. No, not that way, Donny.
Total Student Loan Forgiveness
All of it. Go f*ck yourself, Uncle Sam. Loan shark the wolves of Wall St.
Population Control
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