Q&A with Max Abramson

Well, the Academic Industrial Complex, that is both the public school system, which is about a trillion dollars a year, and colleges and universities are about 560 billion dollars a year. That's a big Democrat Party contributor, or I should say, constituency. The hospital industry and the medical industry is like 3 trillion dollars. They are also a big Democrat contributor. So, together they're called "Meds and Ed." In my opinion, the reason that the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the working class, is that their biggest constituency: trial lawyers and advanced education are no longer about helping ordinary people. They've really become about the almighty dollar. Our college campuses almost always go Democrat, every single year, no matter what. So no matter what you do, just like a lot of high-crime ghettos, they don't have any political clout, the college students don't have political clout, and so they kind of just keep getting raked over the coals year after year. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which is the college I first went to, now charges students about 71,000 dollars a year to attend, and it's almost all student loans.
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