Warrior, have you seen Michael Moore's latest spoof documentary about what country to invade next?  Whether one likes Michael Moore or not, check out that movie.  The moral of the movie is that many European countries and their citizenry are proclaiming they're, " Living the American Dream."  Many European  countries provide healthcare and a four-year college education for anyone that wants these bennies.  How do they do it?  Rational human beings in Europe have long accepted that the human race is in trouble and therefore everyone that wants to live a long life can.  Countries that provide these bennies do so by way of a collective income tax structure.  Every working man and woman pays into these programs.  Workers get to see on their pay stubs an itemization of where their tax dollars are going.  We can do the same but we'd have to get rid of conservatism ideology that doesn't work for the good of the nation.