This Is How Low We've Sunk

The pursuit of higher education and attending college, once a long-standing pillar of the American Dream, is now controversial. Because, you know, Obama supports it.

The tea bagger interviewed in the article scoffs at the Socialist Kenyan Usurper's librul elitist hogwash because, "we need garbageman, we need welders, carpenters." And that is certainly true. But the distinction here is that the President would seek to increase access to higher education so that people have the choice to either go to college or become a garbageman, welder, or carpenter. You shouldn't have to be relegated to a career as a garbageman simply because higher education is out of the question due to your economic means. 

And I would add that societies also need court jesters, clowns, and fools. And for that, we have the tea baggers.