There is no such thing as free. Even if you don't pay for it, someone, somewhere, does.

That's Dee's lessons for life #5.

And it's going out especially to the fucking annoying student politicians. They want education to be free. Ain't no such thing, sweetheart. If you don't pay, someone has to. How do you know it isn't going to be you, somewhere down the line. By the time you get to middle-aged, earning a good wage, you won't want to be paying huge taxes to support those slack lay-abouts going through university. Why the hell should education be free? you'll want to know then. Whose stupid idea was that?

Someone always has to pay.

Quite frankly, Aussie students have it pretty damn good. We pay a fraction of our tuition costs, and we can defer it, or get a further quarter off if we pay upfront. US students wish they had it so good.

To sum up: Someone's going to have to pay for your 'free' education, and it's going to be the taxpayers, because that's where the government gets its money from. If they're paying for your education, they can't be paying for hospitals, for other services, for anything. Just grow up and stop being so fucking selfish, will you?

(The rant endeth here.)