And now for the rest of the story.
I was born in the middle of the great depression. My Father had a very good job but when the economy shit the bed he lost it. He hit the bottle and became a drunk. My Mother had to ask for help to finish raising 5 of us. Thank God and the State of Maine for Aid to dependent children. She also worked as a fish packer to keep us together.
Because of that help I was able to stay in school instead of being forced to quit and take some menial dead end job to help the family. I was able to graduate high school and in time went off to college.
Without that government help I would have been no more than a clam digger or ditch digger.
And, as a result of that help I was able to get a very good job at which I paid far more back in income taxes than the state ever paid out for my support.

Education is not an expense, it is an investment. As the saying goes, If you think education is expensive, consider ignorance.

Do you seriously think that the republicans would ever have given the working man any benefits such as Social Security, minimum wage, Medicare, workplace safety or child labor laws?

I live on a government pension and without Social security and Medicare I would be screwed.

I saw many kids like me who didn't have an intelligent Mother that never amounted to a hill of beans. I never went to bed hungry, but by God, they did.

Capitalism has failed over and over again so don't preach to me about the evils of socialism.

I recall what FDR said about the depression..."The republicans say the economy will recover in the long run, but, people don't EAT in the long run."

I know you are not looking to zero in on me personally, and I'm glad because I can get very rasty on this subject.