ELECT HILLARY FOR FREE COLLEGE TUITION

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     Attention Millennials:  I have one comment to make to you.  FREE COLLEGE TUITION.  And yes...I have capitalized the letters in those words...and put them in bold...in the hope to strongly get across my point about who you should vote for in the Presidential election.

     And if you're a parent of a Millennial... or a parent of a child who will be going to college in the near future...I have one comment to make to you.  FREE COLLEGE TUITION for those kids.  That's right, moms and dads.  If your combined income is 125-thousand dollars or less - which is 83 percent of families in the United States - then your children will be able to go to college...tuition free.  That is if you vote for Hillary Clinton for President and only Democrats for the United States Congress.

     Let's put some numbers in to perspective.  Politifact has fact-checked with the Internal Revenue Service that 98.2 percent of all working Americans earn less than 250-thousand dollars a year.  Now in the grand scheme of things...and with the costs of housing...automobiles...food...healthcare...and everything else in the world going up, up, up...a quarter-of-a-million dollars is really not a great deal of money.  Or is it?  Well...if you're only making between twenty-thousand and fifty-thousand bucks a year...then 100-thousand...150-thousand...200-thousand...or 250-thousand dollars... sounds mighty fine to the overwhelming majority of Americans.

     Now I'm pretty sure that some of you are more than likely questioning my words..."majority of Americans."  So let me provide you with a bit of information that perhaps you may not have known.

     The Social Security Administration discloses some staggering statistics...thus the following are critical reasons why we MUST - as a country - provide FREE COLLEGE TUITION.

     The Social Security Administration says 38 percent of American workers earn less than 20-thousand dollars a year.  Oh yes...you read that right.  Nearly 40 percent of our nation's employed don't even have an individual annual income of 20-grand.  How on God's green Earth can the kids in those homes afford a college education?  After all...the federal poverty level for a family of five - that's two parents and three children - is $28,410.   

     College should be...and must be...a RIGHT...for every single American.  College should NOT...be a privilege.  Every person - young or old - who wants one...should have a way to attend college...without having to pay for it for the rest of his or her life.

     But how can everybody go to college...when one in two people - 51 percent of our working population - are paid a yearly income of less than 30-thousand dollars?  That's half the country.

     Nearly two-thirds - 62 percent of American workers - earn less than 40-thousand dollars a year.

     And the Social Security Administration reveals that 71 percent of employed U.S. citizens are making an annual salary of less than 50-thousand dollars.

     To go to college - under the aforementioned financial conditions - is practically impossible.  That is unless a person is willing to wind up in tremendous debt, which can take decades to pay off...if ever at all.

     Now maybe you're one of the fortunate few who have parents who were able to save money - from the moment you were born - so you could receive a college education and not have to rely on student loans - or, if you're lucky - scholarships or grants.  But signing those financial aid documents at 17 or 18 years of age...and knowing that is the only way you can go to college...is unfair to mostly every American student.   

     That is why MarketWatch reports that Americans owe nearly 1.4 trillion dollars in student-loan debt.  Let me repeat that number, as it is not in the millions...not in the billions...but 1.4 trillion dollars.  That is insane.  And there is no reason for kids 21 or 22 years of age to be saddled with such debt.  Those of you - like me - who were forced to take student loans in order to go to college...know exactly what I mean. 

     Hillary Clinton's plan - as President of the United States - is to immediately give students...whose family income is 85-thousand dollars a year or less...a way to attend and graduate from a 4-year public college or public university at zero tuition cost.  And by the year 2021...the Democratic nominee's plan will allow that income to rise...to 125-thousand dollars or less.

     Donald Trump opposes Mrs. Clinton's plan for free tuition.  Therefore, the Republican nominee deserves a failing grade when it comes to the education of America's students. 

    

      Please...go out on November 8th...and vote for Hillary Clinton to be elected the 45th President of the United States.  And while you're at it...do what you can so that control of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives is returned to the Democrats.  Vote a straight Democratic ticket.  That way college tuition will be free.  Vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court will be filled with more liberal-thinking Justices and NOT to judges who support a conservative Republican mindset, which will undoubtedly take away many Americans' rights.  By voting entirely for Democrats...our nation can move forward with a President and a Congressional majority...that cares for everyone...which Donald Trump clearly does not.

     So when you enter the polling booth to cast your ballot...think of everything I have written in this column.  And...think of your bank account...think of how you're going to pay for college if you're a student...or if you're a parent of a student.  And remember three words.  FREE COLLEGE TUITION.

     And that's The Controversy for today.

     I'm Gary B. Duglin.

     "We'll talk again."

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