{"id":14526,"date":"2016-05-11T02:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14526"},"modified":"2016-05-11T02:51:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:51:14","slug":"sanders-yet-to-explain-how-free-college-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14526","title":{"rendered":"Sanders yet to explain how ‘free college’ works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve had a busy day, which is rather strange, given that I’m supposed to be “semi-retired.”<\/p>\n

Still, I’m winding ‘er down tonight and am listening to some cable news discussion of the day’s political events.<\/p>\n

I heard the following: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders held a rally in Salem, Ore., in which he said that it’s time to provide free college education<\/em> for every American who wants to get one.<\/p>\n

I keep coming back to this question: How in the world are we going to pay for this?<\/p>\n

Sanders’ pledge to provide free college education has helped him draw big support among young voters, who’ve added huge numbers to the rallies to which he’s been speaking.<\/p>\n

Free college is a noble goal.<\/p>\n

It’s also utterly unrealistic.<\/p>\n

I have plenty of friends who are backing Sanders. Some of them are old folks … like me.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I haven’t crossed paths with too many college-age students who are backing Sanders because of this pie-in-the-sky promise. I’ll need to catch up with some of them to get a better grip on how this free college pledge is resonating.<\/p>\n

From my standpoint, though, a promise made from the campaign stump quite often doesn’t\u00a0translate to\u00a0responsible public policy.<\/p>\n\n

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