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I'm Steve Carlson independent candidate for president 2016 from Minnesota I want to talk to you about this idea of free higher education naturally I support it but I want to tell you about what Minnesota has done in this area how Minnesota has been a leader in this field by providing free public higher education this issue is a comment on Bernie Sanders dream of free higher education and this is a total rebuttal of Hillary Clinton's false assertion that this cannot in any way be done and that bernie is just the Pied Piper leading all the Millennials off an illusory cliff she was quote not going to give free college to wealthy kids unquote or people who don't quote put their own effort into their education unquote hear me up you'll see how clueless Hillary actually is and why I am the best candidate for president in 2016 on the issue of higher education I recently tweeted out a quotation from the Minnesota Constitution Minnesota was not founded as any socialist country or socialist state it was part of the United States and before it was admitted it established free higher education and after it was admitted and part of the terms of admission included the incorporation of the Charter into the state's constitution so it's legit so I want to first of all dispel this notion that is a socialist idea the idea that higher education in this country should be free there are many arrangements and as in healthcare housing every other aspect we have a mix not everything is pure free market free market and riches our nation's economy and I believe it does very much but it is not the be-all and end-all of America and when Minnesota organized as a state we benefited from something called the land intact the Morrill Act mo RR I ll named after a senator from Vermont I'll explain how this worked and could work again and I have not been able to review all the charters of the other states universities and constitution I have reviewed Minnesota's now land grant it's a very promising idea which we should use again right now in the United States I have criticized Bernie's idea of relying on the moral hazard of encouraging people to get involved in hedge funds and derivatives in the wall street market Bernie's plan relies on them doing so and then agreeing to provide so much funds that we can pay all these limitless costs of America's public universities that in itself is a moral hazard a new kind of syntax because I know these people I've served in the government with these professors and these administrators and as much as they are dedicated to discussing knowledge and even producing new knowledge you give them unlimited funds and they'll figure out something to do with it many people approach higher education is just a kind of pleasure to become aware of the beautiful parts of American and world culture but that is not the highest purpose and we need to make tuition free now how can we make tuition free a combination of things here's one recently we witnessed the unjust killing of a man who did nothing except fight against the domination of the US Congress people like Al Franken Amy Klobuchar Betty McCollum people I've met even debated and who set these draconian laws up that imprisoned people for simply being free Americans on their own States lands confiscated by Congress it's horrible but what was that about well it was about the fact that in Oregon more than fifty percent of the land of the state actually belongs to Congress now how it ended up in Congress's head tells you a lot about the kind of character the people are who get in Congress they're opportunists they see an opportunity to take to take what is not theirs and to use it for their own for their own purposes just like the university professors but what did we do with the land grant act here in Minnesota and in the 20 states in which it was passed we took that federal land and in Minnesota in many states throughout the nation passed this law and set a very high purpose which was to educate and as the federal land grant act want to be clear freely and without costs the industrial classes educate the industrial classes the very people who now look for some kind of an opportunity to expand their capabilities and their knowledge and to contribute a much to a much stronger America we all have to support this and they look great now to Bernie Sanders but this is better now with all that federal land laying around out there with Congress just pretending that that's their private reserve and that's their kind of environmentalism is to play with federal land they were doing this with the Boundary Waters Canoe Area the bwca in Minnesota with then federal judge miles Lord and I discovered this when I became the local chair of the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group emperor you know one of the liberals favors founded by the Green Party's Ralph Nader at that time he was organizing campuses we also talked about taconite and its impact on Lake Superior and I talked about being aware of the impact on jobs in northern Minnesota and that issue is still going on today as we talk about sulfide mining making the de bwca look like the surface of the Moon and I'm one of those people who said environmentalism should not focus only on the pristine forests of the bwca and this all involved the federal land i'm talking it most impacts Minnesota's in the cities where we're subject to pollution and air quality and water quality and this is spread across the country so I felt that that was the target of environmentalism that we should be pursuing and things slowly changed I was the chair in 1976 I believe and stayed involved there till about 1981 could have been later when we basically revolutionized em perk and did things like support divestment from South Africa to oppose apartheid is a form of corporate responsibility for the University of Minnesota the largest public corporation in the state and I think actually the largest employer at that time and this was long before Barack Obama ever got involved in South African divestment it's not a black thing is a human rights thing but with all this federal land lying around we can make many land grants and so rather than just make this available to ranchers and farmers as we saw in Oregon in Texas and I'm not saying we should not that could be a very good use to develop that land but what we want to do i think is to take that land and sell it or grant it in the following way by investing it by giving it to the States just as they did to Minnesota and say this is your federal land grant you can make it productive and you can take the money from the sale of that land or from the development of that land as we sometimes do in Minnesota and you can use that with your greatest knowledge and intellect and take that money and create a university for the people for the industrial classes and teach them how to be farmers that's what the original purpose of the land grant act was how to be foresters how to be environmentalists how to produce towns and cities and industry transportation get to work develop new land new opportunity for the people in the crowded cities that's what we did and that's what we should do again and so this idea of free universities is no socialist dream Minnesota was not socialist the US Congress was not socialist but I have to say that dedicating that land to creating land-grant universities across this great land at that time twenty states which have since expanded is far better use of that land than shooting ranchers who protests being locked up in prison for no reason as they are being because their fire reaches that federal land unintentionally it's a mandatory minimum that Al Franken and his Congress have they have to put all these people in jail in prison for five years now Justin Morial he was the senator a Republican from Bernie's state from up he's the one who penned the land grant act I don't know why Bernie hasn't thought of it but I hope that he gives a serious consideration there were about 20 states at that time and it overwhelmingly passed the US Senate where Bernie says and it was signed into law by abraham lincoln who was a third party candidate not from one of the two big national parties but a new party started in ripe on wisconsin called the republican party so these republicans came up with innovative ideas to make good use of america's land and america's people and to build on what you'll find in the constitution which is patents and the obvious respect that the framers had for science and technology mechanic arts to build a better America to advance our quality of life which is absolutely necessary in cold climates like Minnesota we need to build on that we need to expand on that and so here's a second way we can make higher education free now when I was at the universe minnesota i wrote the nation's first charter for a student tuition union to say to the regions of minnesota university of minnesota here's what our Constitution says our state constitution it says when in the opinion of the region's the general fund shall allow tuition shall be without charge free in all the departments of the University of Minnesota for those who are residents of the territory at that time it was a territory which I believe included primarily current state of Minnesota current states of North and South Dakota so we can do this in every state we can bring this back I believe that the tuition rates at the University of Minnesota today our criminal they are deliberately designed to exclude the people of Minnesota from obtaining higher education and to keep that University of Minnesota land grant the private province of a few privileged elite who keep it a big secret and use it for themselves basically we need to reverse this we need to follow through not with socialism but with the original intent of those who organized this territory and state and congress and those who organized this state in the Congress that accepted this in 1858 and just four years later bestowed on us the land grant act which this university received to provide education to the industrial class classes in agriculture and the mechanic arts that's so you can go about building towns and building farms and building railroads highways using your time productively not just for those who hold the capital right now but for all of us and that's not socialism that's the way America was intended to be this is Abraham Lincoln who signed us into law and this is the Republican from Vermont Justin moral senator just and moral now this union was destroyed eventually by the university and minnesota state leaders Frank will dersin U of M president see Peter McGraw and the region's appointed by the state legislature they lied conspiring with the federal government the Department of Health Education and Welfare the predecessor of Department of Education to bar me from any financial aid and others but not and in others help to stop them but not before we elected people to be on that union from the college of liberal arts 45,000 students unfortunately they the citizens party made a decision they would do better for themselves after having been elected to leave it and let it fall apart but before that it was all over all the newspapers all the television stations it's in the front page of the Washington I'm sorry the Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education this is important for the country and it has an economic effect and it will advance education and advance productivity investment and investment in this country like nothing we've seen something Donald Trump should look at as well as Bernie Sanders and I'm certainly looking at it and you should too now within the framework of collective bargaining by students and the great expansion of teaching jobs resulting from a land grant search isn't that the kind of surge you could support well we would be in a position of strengths and we'll have a third way to drive down to ition 20 we'll have leverage to use Donald Trump's favorite word and the most obvious change all student unions should raise is a drastically expanded role for the internet and the computer in increasing both the quality and availability of higher education and lifelong learning this will truly develop the potential of the Internet to what it is destined to become and I daresay it's better than common core by the way it will be a great new terrain for language learning I can use about 20 languages now on the internet I've worked as a linguist and have always been a great supporter of language education and America getting free of our modeling will hang up getting beyond one of the world's greatest languages English American English but now when you know that the free tuition at the University of Minnesota is in the States Constitution then what you see is that the students there who are currently paying around ten thousand dollars for the cost of attending each semester at a land grant University probably more enough are really the biggest tax payer collectively in the state they're paying taxes to the state of Minnesota which is what the University of Minnesota is at a time in their lives when they most need to be dedicated to their studies they're running up huge often uncollectible debt at hyped up interest rates because the banks have focused on states like Minnesota to load up these taxpayers with debt that will stretch out probably through most of their lives and further because of the lack of students because the tuition is so high and the costs are run up so much and I see so many of those students now are international students they're not American ship and from another country and I'm all for that when you take them out you see the dismal failure of the University of Minnesota which I as a leader there really d cry but because of all of this lack of study there is a lack of economic development and jobs these are the people who could begin business many of them are from families which may have access to capital which by the way should be available without the National Bank acts yuzuriha straits what's more the schools are furthering an employee mentality where people are trained to focus on getting someone else to employ them rather than to become risk takers and entrepreneurs and so you can see that this is an economic as well as an educational disaster and it violates the States Constitution and this is an area where not only Minnesota but the entire country could benefit from returning to the land grant act the Morrill Act of 1862 and replicating it all throughout the West is a good way to use the federal land to give it back to the states for the purpose of establishing higher education for the industrial classes and therefore for all the people because the industrial class will need the best and brightest minds of the American intelligentsia so I hope that you'll consider these paths that are available to us right now that Bernie Sanders will respond to this that Donald Trump will respond to this that Hillary Clinton will stop saying the false things that she's saying and that we can move on in 2016 to restore America to take America back make it great again and bring it there for all the people regardless of race gender religion class this is what Minnesota has always been about to Hillary Clinton's idea that we don't want to give money to rich people to go to school of course we do we don't want to exclude rich people from our schools they're part of an organic community of the whole society we need them there we need to start talking to each other about creating new opportunities people who see themselves as only the working class hey maybe especially with the internet and the international global market there's nothing wrong with the globe I think it's fine I think we should look beyond our borders but we need to create opportunity and maybe we could start new businesses and maybe we could be a better part of the world's community maybe we can go to plowshares and not weapons this has happened we've had a hard time adjusting to this and we've got to get the wheels going and stop fighting with each other over our gender and all of these things move forward and and get tuition to be free and education to be available both of those things have to happen if you just dri
e down the tuition and the schools go out of business that's not going to be good but there's no reason why we can't have land-grant universities across this country can't use the internet can't collectively bargain through our students with the state to realize the goal that Minnesota started way back in 1851 in the charter of the University of Minnesota incorporated into the 1858 constitution of the state I'm Steve Carlson i'm running for president i would appreciate your vote if you think that you're going to drop out you're an independent voter or even a democrat or republican who doesn't feel like voting this year who's burnt out because of what's happening to our country and what's happening with all the annoying 30-second sound bites I hope that you'll go out and at least write in one named Steve Carlson for president in 2016 and we can keep the independent voice alive and we can bring some of these new fresh ideas which are winners thanks