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Bernie Sanders Adviser: Only Reason People Don’t Go To College is Financial

When you have a hammer, every problem looks a nail. And when you have a college education, every problem sounds like it be solved with four years of student debt in exchange for nothing.

Take Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager for Bernie’s failed campaign, graduated from the University of Vermont. In between running working for Bernie in various capacities, he seems to run a comic book store.

But Jeff, currently a senior advisor to Bernie, is convinced that everyone would go to college if only they could afford to waste the money.

After Buttigieg offered the familiar criticism of free college, that it would be a freebie for everyone, including the richer, Weaver ranted that, “The type of attitude that Mayor Pete Buttigieg is exhibiting here is in fact elitist in itself. The reason why people aren’t going to college is because not everybody can afford to go to college.”

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