You're listening to me for free right now, and that's awesome because more and more things aren't free right now.

I mean, think about all the things you're paying for daily, monthly yearly.

Well, here's something that won't add to that list, the free iHeartRadio app, podcasts, streaming music, digital radio.

All free, it's the future of audio and unlike almost everything else in your life right now,

except maybe air, it doesn't cost a dollar.

So take advantage of this, listen to everything you love on the iHeartRadio app for free.

iHeartRadio

This is the Tom Hartman program.

You know, back when Reagan became governor of California in the 70s,

he knew that an educated populace was more progressive and more likely to vote democratic,

and he was determined to stop the explosion of California educated Americans caused by the

1944 GI Bill and free tuition at the University of California where he was the governor.

40 years later now, we are just kneecapped, we have 44 million Americans crippled with

student debt. This is a 1.5 trillion dollar drag on our economy, and that doesn't begin to

describe the damage that's been done to this country. After he destroyed low income Californians

ability to get an education in the 1970s, his first year as governor of California.

He ended free tuition at the University of California system and cut their state aid to the college

system by 20 percent right across the board, just in his first year. When he was asked why he said,

and I quote, college students are too liberal. And quote, America should not subsidize intellectual

curiosity. Like education is just, we just do it for fun, right? I mean, fully 60 percent of

the college educated vote in 2020 went to Joe Biden. Republicans have a reason to hate college.

Colleges produce thoughtful people. They produce people who are capable of thinking for

...