Beware of Limiting Entitlements

When anti-government people start to squawk about entitlements-Watch Out!  They want their friends in the private sector to put a hand in your pocket.  That was the argument they used to get rid of free higher education.  Believe it or not there was a time when you could get a college degree for free in this country.  My father was an immigrant with a full time job who went to night school for years to get a BA and a Master's degree to better provide for his family.  Then they started attacking state and city colleges as a middle class entitlement.  Once students were handed over to the private sector, schools started to become less and less affordable.  It's outrageous the amount of debt young people are saddled with these days. The Right Wing talks about the burden our young people will face in the future because of higher taxes, but most young people are already indentured to student loans which they may never pay off.   My advice to young people is to start working and pay as you go.  Also check out college plus on the web and get as much credit as possible for stuff you already know like a second language.  Also when in high school take the AP classes.  In New York and many other states the state colleges have online programs which are cheaper and which  you can do at your leisure while working. 
Back to entitlements.  Now they are attacking  Social Security.  This has to be the most craven attack by the right wing to date.  Social Security works.  It keeps older people out of abject poverty and allows people after a lifetime of hard work to rest.  I guess the right has never quite gotten over the New Deal.  They want to go back to the old days when people worked as children and died still working.  Social Security is solvent for at least 75 years which means even a 25 year old will be able to collect.  Don't believe the lies.