Less than beneficial is the basis for a reasonable argument between people with different views on how the securities markets should operate. Basically out and out calling the finance sector a bunch of greedy dishonest pirates is not.
As for national defense funding, it's not a tap you can just turn off. It's a large, cumbersome behemoth that if you want to make that kind of funding transition would take probably a couple of decades. The alternative plan for post-secondary in re: expanding Pell grants and capping interest rates on student debt and doing other things that ease the burden on students is actually practical - though the standard "more taxes for the wealthy and close corporate loopholes" funding strategy remains, as ever, a bunch of BS. But implementing "FREE FOR EVERYBODY" college would be an utter disaster in the USA. Hell, for one thing, there's a pretty good case that more people go to post-secondary already than probably should simply because it's regarded as "what one does", not for any discernible purpose.
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