Reagan's policy of starving education & cranking up student debt has made US banks piles of money, but stopped generations of young people from starting businesses, having families & buying homes.

Ronald Reagan knew that an educated populace was more progressive and more Democratic, and he was determined to stop the explosion of college educated Americans caused by both the 1944 GI Bill and free tuition at the University of California.

Forty years later, student debt has crippled two generations of young Americans: over 44 million people carry the burden, totaling a $1.5 trillion drag on our economy that benefits nobody except the banks earning interest on the debt.

But that doesn't begin to describe the damage student debt has done to America since Reagan, in his first year as governor of California, ended free tuition at the University of California and cut state aid to that college system by 20 percent across-the-board.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Student Debt is Sabotaging America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Financial aid: A chat with Dave Stockman" by Columbia Spectator.

Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Labor Party.

Book: Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream by Edward Humes.

Article: "List of land-grant universities" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Educational Legacy of Ronald Reagan" by Gary K. Clabaugh.

Book: Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir by Terrel H. Bell.

Article: "How US students get a university degree for free in Germany" by Franz Strasser.

Article: "Student Loan Statistics" by Chamber of Commerce.

Article: "GI Bill created generation of business leaders" by Mary Paulsell.

Article: "Ronald Reagan – the Out–House President" by Andrew Seifter.

Article: "Morrill Land Act" by State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Article: "Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"" by Andrew Seifter.

Article: "Trends in U.S. Study Abroad" by NAFSA.

Article: "Ronald Reagan Is Giving 'Em Heck" by Jerry Anderson.

Article: "How Educational Differences Are Widening America's Political Rift" by Nate Cohn.

Article: "8 Countries Where US Students Can Study For Free In Europe" by Helen Scarr.

Article: "Born of Controversy: The GI Bill of Rights" by VA.

Article: "My students pay too much for college. Blame Reagan." by Devin Fergus.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Article: "Mark Zuckerberg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans" by History.com.

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brown v. Board of Education: Virginia Responds" by Commonwealth of Virginia.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Article: "MacKenzie Scott donates $133.5 million to educational nonprofit Communities In Schools" by CBS News.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Elderly Florida residents had their registration switched to Republican — without their knowledge: report" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Stewart Rhodes' wife says he planned for Trump to install Oath Keepers as his 'brownshirts'" by John Wright.

Book: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover.

Article: "I Am Not Proof of the American Dream" by Tara Westover.

Article: "How the Koch Brothers Are Influencing U.S. Colleges" by Dave Levinthal.

Article: "Mercatus Center" by Wikipedia.

Article: "new map could halve the state's GOP delegation" by Daily Kos Elections.

Hour Two: The NFL's Fraudulent Attempts at Diversity
- Gary Washburn, NBA/Celtics Reporter & covers other sports issues - The Boston Globe

Article: "Brian Flores is no longer keeping quiet about the NFL's fraudulent attempts at diversity" by Gary Washburn.

Article: "Brian Flores" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Colin Kaepernick" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CBO issues score on how much Build Back Better would cost if programs were permanent" by Lauren Fox and Manu Raju.

Quote: "Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure" - anon.

Article: "National debt of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Memo circulated among Trump allies advocated using NSA data in attempt to prove stolen election" by Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Emma Brown, Jon Swaineand Jacqueline Alemany.

Article: "Trump Had Role in Weighing Proposals to Seize Voting Machines" by Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman, Michael S. Schmidt and Luke Broadwater.

Article: "Jeff Bezos' new megayacht is so big, the Dutch are going to have to take apart a historic bridge to let it pass" by Avery Hartmans.

Article: "Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump let this pesticide stay on the market. Under Biden, EPA is banning its use on food." (chlorpyrifos) by Dino Grandoni.

Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "EPA, White House warn Louis DeJoy to halt plan to replace USPS fleet with gas-powered trucks" by Ella Nilsen.

Site: Karen Hunter Show.

Hour Three: Does Expanding Freeways Make More Congestion & Worse Climate Change?
- Aaron Brown, Political Organizer - No More Freeways PDX

Article: "The Road Warriors" by Laura Bliss.

Article: "Federal Government rescinds approval of proposed Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion" by No More Freeways.

Article: "Washington Football Team has a name again - the Commanders" by Frank Pingue.

Article: "More body fat linked to greater risk of cognitive decline, memory issues" by John Anderer.

Article: "Black woman gets six years in prison over voting errors made by state officials" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Black doctor sues JPMorgan Chase alleging she was refused service at Texas branch because of race" by Antonio Planas.

Article: "A black man in Michigan tried to deposit checks at his bank. The manager called police." by Minyvonne Burke.

Book: Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret.

Article: "How the Kansas City Chiefs choked away a Super Bowl" by Lyle Graversen.

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