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This is the Tom Hartman program.

There are these moments in history, these kind of

inch points in history that are like before that and after that, right, before 9-11, after 9-11.

Things were different. Before Reagan, you could go to college, if you could, you know,

if you could get into the school, if you could pass the test or your grades were good enough,

you could go to college pretty much anywhere in the country. Yes, there were some, you know,

Yale and Harvard were expensive, but you know, most colleges certainly state colleges and easily

community colleges. You could go to college and pay for it out of your pocket change basically,

pay for it, you know, with a part-time job. After Reagan, that all changed. When Reagan came into

office, about 20% of the cost of higher education was paid for by tuition and about 80% was paid for

by state, federal and local governments. And in some cases, colleges having a buffer of their own,

basically some sort of an endowment or other kind of program, a lot of these were created in the

1860s and 1863, I think it was or 64. When Abraham Lincoln created the land grant college program,

where as president, he identified 56 large parcels of land in different states all over the

country and gave those to the states and said, use this land to create enough money to build a

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