If All Lives Mattered, College Would be Free

Walter Rhein
ILLUMINATION
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4 min readJul 20, 2020

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Instead, it’s the first step to debt slavery

Photo by Ruth Enyedi on Unsplash

One of the most frustrating things about our national discourse is the blatant hypocrisy. Recently politicians have been puffing themselves up and insisting that “all lives matter” because they steadfastly wish to misunderstand and deride the “black lives matter” movement.

They claim that they care for all lives, but time and time again they resist any political action which could actually improve the health and well-being of our whole population.

Just stop for a moment and think of how much better the lives of everyone in our country would be if the price of advanced education didn’t prevent individuals from improving their situations.

Education is too expensive

Just a few months ago, the government wrote a check for 2 trillion dollars and handed it out to the businesses in our nation which are supposed to be the greatest revenue generators. This kind of thing is not without precedent. Every ten years or so, the US taxpayer somehow gets on the hook to bail-out the tiniest, richest percentage of our population.

Meanwhile, hard working Americans who…

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Walter Rhein
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Written by Walter Rhein

Certified English and physics teacher. Editor, journalist, illustrator and novelist. walterrhein@gmail.com

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