Originally posted by Guenther:[..]
most of the time when the government pays for your education, its a loan that you pay back. I left school in 2000 and I am still paying on my loans. When people want to get back the money they paid to the government, they get on welfare or foodstamps. My family has been struggling for a while so my wife and I have relied on Government programs like WIC to help us out. While we will get off these programs as soon as we can, there are people who exist only on these programs and make no effort to change. In the U.S., we call these people "trash".
Well, in Europe, we call your system 'corporate democracy' because goverment cares more about banks and corporations then it's own people.
In most democracies you pay taxes and then you have free health care, education and so on. We just call it "free" but it isn't free because we already paid for it.
In USA, you pay your taxes and then you still have to pay for your broken finger in hospital.
In USA, if you want proper education, you have to get loans.It's a system of modern slavery. You finish your education and you are ready to begin your life and yet you are fucked up because it will take years to return loaned money.
In Europe, if you're successful enough, government pays you education. You know why? Because its in interest of every country to get as much high educated people as possible.
Let me go step by step:
1. You're good student. Government pays you education.
2. You get high education. You get well paid job.
3. Because of that, you pay more tax. Better paid job, higher taxes.
4. On the finish line, government earned on your work 100x more then it paid for your education.
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