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The Origin of Student Debt:

Regan advisor warned that Free College would create a Dangerous Educated Proletariat

It’s important to understand how Americans came to the current cumulative total of *more than $1.6 trillion* for higher education.

In 1970, Ronald Reagan was running for reelection as governor of California. He had first won in 1966 with confrontational rhetoric toward the University of California public college system and executed confrontational policies when in office. In May 1970, Reagan shut down all 28 UC and Cal State campuses in the midst of student protests against the Vietnam War and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. On October 29, less than a week before the election, his education adviser A. spoke at a press conference to defend him.

Freeman’s remarks were reported the next day in the San Francisco Chronicle under the headline “Professor Sees Peril in Education.”

According to the Chronicle article, Freeman said, “We are in of producing an . … That’s dynamite! We have to be on who we [to go to college].”

“If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”

Freeman also said — taking a highly idiosyncratic perspective on the cause of fascism —“that’s what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.”

theintercept.com/2022/08/25/st

The Intercept · The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”By Jon Schwarz

Your focus matters. How you see it matters. What you do with it within yourself matters. When things happen to you in life you have a choice in that moment of what to do with them. The immediate reaction may be pain and that’s okay; feel the pain and allow the pain but then make a choice to shift your focus.

The pain just is. Don’t identify with it. Don’t hang onto it. Don’t make up stories about it. Just let it be there.

The experience just is. Don’t identify with it. Don’t hang onto it. Don’t make up stories about it. Just let it be there.

Your opinion of it just is. Don’t identify with it. Don’t hang onto it. Don’t make up stories about it. Just let it be there.

Notice a pattern?

Don’t focus on, hold onto, make up stories about, or identify with anything that causes you pain or that you don’t like. Just allow it all to be there and peacefully co-exist with you.

You don’t have to do anything about any of it. There is nothing to fix. It’s not broken. It is only the equal and the opposite that is being reflected back to you. Allow it to be there.

Stop fighting with the things you don't like. Allow them to simply be there because you can't get rid of them. They get to exist too, whether you like them or not. Trying to change that only upsets you.

Love to all.

Della