I was gonna present this without comment….
But I can’t.
I’m just so seething at this. As though that smilingly benevolent father reaches into his pocket and gives out money HE’s earned to help you with tuition.
I guess “Tuition $ from your hardworking, taxpaying neighbours, granted through highly dubious and possibly unconstitutional means” isn’t so pithy.
Just Another Pretty Farce 
I wouldn’t be so quick to take a facebook ad at face value. It’s posted there because SOMEBODY stands to make a buck from it. The one thing that is almost positively certain (with any facebook ad) is that the White House didn’t post it, and any contents in the ad is mostly untrue.
That, and the federal government has been giving grants and guaranteeing loans for education since before I went to university. I understand that, as a libertarian, you’re opposed to that, Kat, but it’s hardly an Obama thing. And while I agree that Obama hasn’t delivered on many of his promises of change (in fact, I would argue that he has governed very much like several predecessors so far), I don’t think that eliminating federal funding for education is what he meant by “change.”
Yes, I owe some of my college education to my hardworking neighbors, as does my wife. I didn’t have the money to pay for it all myself. But I think the fact that we took our educations and became productive, hardworking, tax-paying folks ourselves justifies the support that we got. If you and your husband were able to put yourselves through whatever schooling you may have had without any grants or student loans, good for you. But, honestly, those of us who couldn’t have afforded our educations otherwise might not have the disposable income to buy the things that drive our economy, like really cool gadgets for our cell phones or music players. So yes, we got tuition money from our hardworking neighbors, but perhaps our hardworking neighbors would have to work hard for less money if we hadn’t gotten that tuition money.