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This meme is a humorous take on a quote attributed to a former US President, Ronald Reagan. The image shows a quote from Reagan's 1981 State of the Union address, where he famously declared "Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, we are not going to be satisfied with the fact that the Soviet Union is less than the Soviet Union of 1981". The meme is a play on this quote, replacing "Gorbachev" with "Joe Biden" and "the Soviet Union" with "the national debt".

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2023-05-10T21:03:33+00:00

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4 * Jon “& Schwarz S @ " @schwarz As Biden cancels (some) student debt, remember why the debt exists. A key Reagan advisor warned in 1970 that free college was producing the dangerously explosive "dynamite" of an "educated proletariat," and "we have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education": Later in 1970, Roger Freeman —a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Rea- gan —spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counterattack was aimed at preventing: “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”* The two most menacing institutional sources of the danger described by Freeman were obvi- ously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California 3:25 PM - 8/24/22 - Twitter Web App