True, basic education (K-12) is absolutely necessary and should be covered by everyone who can contribute, but where do you set the limit to all the freebies that the citizenry has come to expect from big brother. Common sense dictates that you acquire the goods and services that you can afford, no more. The American citizenry has gone way over budget and has burden generations to come. That's immoral.
So is this a post against Pell grants and student loans? Do you not believe that there is a huge return for such investments? Are you happy with a country where only the well-off can afford a college education, thereby forcing entire segments into generational poverty? Do you think that financial aid is what got us into this mess? How do you think we will do when the bottom 47% no longer has the opportunity to get more education? Will that make us a better society, or will it just make us more vulnerable to the top 1% that will use us for the menial tasks and pay us whatever, because we will have no leverage.
I don't like your America. Apparently, enough of us don't like your America, because they chose Obama.