I was listening to Harry McClintock's "Big Rock Candy Mountain" from the O Brother soundtrack. It's a funny description of what hobo heaven would be like. (Rivers of whisky etc) What would a shit-lib heaven be like? I'm thinking of UK libs heaven having means tested genital inspections. Everyone else here is way funnier than I am, what you got?
I remember liberal rag New Statesmen defending Coalition government for tripling university fees because at least it gets forgiven after a decade. I don't think a lib heaven would have university scholarships but progressive loans.
This is basically lib heaven, everything still has a cost, but it’s “fairer”. They’re very wedded to the Protestant work ethic, nothing can ever be truly free, you always have to kind of pay for it, but if you have a disadvantage we should maybe tweak the rules a bit to help you out.
It’s why they twist themselves into pretzels on why free college would be a bad thing actually. Yes poor and minority people have a hard time getting into college but clearly just making it free would violate some profound capitalist ethic, we just need some complex network of public and private funds that disadvantaged people can jerk off to get enough money to go. We’ll help you out but you have to demonstrate your worthiness.
It’s why their obsessed with means testing even in situations where pro-capitalist economists are actively telling them universal programs would work better.