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Friday, November 7, 2014

Free College or Another New War?

Free College or Another New War?

By World Beyond War

Noting that U.S. college costs have gone up 500% since 1985, the Washington Post recommends seven countries where U.S. students can go to college for free without bothering to learn the language of the natives or anything so primitive.
These are nations with less wealth than the United States has, but which make college free or nearly free, both for citizens and for dangerous illegals visiting their Homelands.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/

How do they do it?

Three of them have a higher top tax rate than the United States has, but four of them don’t.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates

What does the United States spend its money on that these other countries do not? What is the largest public program in the United States? What makes up over 50% of federal discretionary spending in the United States?

If you said “war,” it’s possible you were educated in a fine foreign country.

A comprehensive calculation of U.S. military spending puts it at over $1 trillion a year. The International Institute for Strategic Studies puts it at $645.7 billion in 2012. Using that smaller number, let’s compare the seven nations where Americans can find their human right to an education respected:http://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/statplanet/StatPlanet.html

France $48.1 billion or 7.4% of U.S.


Germany $40.4 billion or 6.3% of U.S.


Brazil $35.3 billion or 5.5% of U.S.


Norway $6.9 billion or 1.1% of U.S.


Sweden $5.8 billion or 0.9% of U.S.


Finland $3.6 billion or 0.6% of U.S.


Slovenia $0.6 billion or 0.1% of U.S.


Oh, but those are smaller countries. Well, lets compare military spending per capita:
http://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/statplanet/StatPlanet.html

United States $2,057

Norway $1,455 or 71% of U.S.

France $733 or 35% of U.S.

Finland $683 or 33% of U.S.

Sweden $636 or 31% of U.S.

Germany $496 or 24% of U.S.

Slovenia $284 or 14% of U.S.

Brazil $177 or 9% of U.S.

It’s worth noting that in wealth per capita, Norway is wealthier than the United States. It still spends significantly less per capita on war preparations. The others all spend between 9% and 35%.

Now, you may be a believer in militarism, and you may be shouting right about now: “The United States provides these other nations’ warmaking needs for them. When Germany or France has to destroy Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya, who does the heavy lifting?”

Or you may be an opponent of militarism, and you may be thinking about its many additional costs. Not only does the United States pay the most in dollars, but it generates the most hatred, kills the most people, does the most damage to the natural environment, and loses the most freedoms in the process.

Either way, the point is that these other countries have chosen education, while the United States has chosen a project that perhaps a well-educated populace would support, but we don’t have any way to test that theory, and it doesn’t look like we’re going to any time soon.

We have a choice before us: free college or more war?http://worldbeyondwar.org/individual

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