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Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

Noam Chomsky
Home, Kids, College
"Plutonomy and the Precariat" by Noam Chomsky, www.thenation.com. May 8, 2012.

Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is estimated to be over $1.45 trillion. There are ample resources for that simply from waste, including the bloated military and the enormous concentrated private wealth that has accumulated in the financial and general corporate sector under neoliberal policies. There is no economic reason why free education cannot flourish from schools through colleges and university. The barriers are not economic but rather political decisions.

Noam Chomsky
Military, School, College
Source: www.truth-out.org

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

Noam Chomsky
College, People, Understanding
Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

Noam Chomsky
Real, College, Rights
Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.70, Pantheon

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

Noam Chomsky
Fun, College, Analysis

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Noam Chomsky
College, Taught, Environment
Source: www.madre.org

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

Noam Chomsky
College, Tinkering, Use
Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never had a real college education. I got a degree, but it was just patching together courses here and there.

Noam Chomsky
Real, College, Political
Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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