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Will this eventually alert the public to revolt against a system that mostly benefits administrators and professors while leaving students not only in debt, but ill-equipped to earn a living?
1 posted on 01/02/2012 8:32:13 AM PST by usalady
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To: usalady

Doubt it. The universities are indoctrination centers for the Left. They turn out Dem voters and provide contributions to the Dem coffers. Obama and the Dems will work towards excusing most of that debt, hence the takeover of the student loan program.


2 posted on 01/02/2012 8:36:23 AM PST by kabar
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I’ve long maintained that a condition of student loans be that the recipient is enrolled in a course of study that is of value to society (i.e., business, science, math, engineering).

If someone elects to major in transgendered Aleutian folk music, fine—Just don’t expect US taxpayers to underwrite it.


3 posted on 01/02/2012 8:38:41 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Journalists first; then lawyers.)
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To: usalady

Funny stuff.

Students volunteering to get hosed, and then complaining about it.


5 posted on 01/02/2012 8:41:45 AM PST by lurk
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The outstanding student debt is not going to be repaid.

It is too big, and there are too few jobs remaining that have not been sent to communist china.

There is no way the majority of student loan borrowers will be able to pay back principle plus interest.

You heard it here first.


7 posted on 01/02/2012 8:48:39 AM PST by CGalen
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What percentage of college courses contribute to productivity and growth?

How are “required” courses designed to waste time and money, while promoting an agenda?


9 posted on 01/02/2012 8:52:55 AM PST by G Larry ("I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his Character.")
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And just who has been running the Universities for the last 40 years?

Oh, *that*'s right.

The Koch brothers, Faux News, and Glenn Beck.

Cheers!

22 posted on 01/02/2012 9:41:07 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: usalady; Oberon; lurk; Arm_Bears; kabar; AppyPappy; All
College Liberal

Cheers!

23 posted on 01/02/2012 9:43:19 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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So the little idiots are finally figuring out 6 and 7 digit salarys are paid out of their student loans?


24 posted on 01/02/2012 9:45:54 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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Well, they will offer a course on “occupy wall street” and then learn how to protest for the government to pay their bill


26 posted on 01/02/2012 10:07:26 AM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
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Say, isn’t that my feminist studies professor driving that BMW?


29 posted on 01/02/2012 10:12:23 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Sheila Stearns, commissioner of higher education in Montana, earned her $200,000 a year salary last year by recommending that all freshman courses in Montana universities have course numbers in the 100s...............wow. That and she’s a Democrat.


31 posted on 01/02/2012 10:16:41 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Universities and colleges aren’t robbing students, students (and their hapless parents) are robbing themselves. No one is holding a gun to their heads making them pay such high tuition and fees.

But they will expect taxpayers to ‘make them whole’ just like people who bought more house than they could afford or re-mortgaged their house to buy more stuff than they could afford.


33 posted on 01/02/2012 10:23:07 AM PST by Lorianne
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One thing that would put a cap on it: have the universities underwrite the student loan debt, with the feds administering repayment. If the student defaults or otherwise does not wind up repaying the loan, the college eats it.

Overnight, colleges would stop admitting people who really are not going to benefit from colleges, and stop offering courses that do not measurably prepare students for jobs.

36 posted on 01/02/2012 10:38:27 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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Of the 70+ IT Engineers that work for me, only 3-4 have a Bachelors Degree and none above that. Approximately 12 have not graduated from high school PROPER, but did get their GED.

None makes less than $25/hr and more than 20 are over $75/hr.

My top 10 make $90+/hr.

Tell me again what makes college so valuable? And who, pray tell, is stupid enough to believe a professional educator?

38 posted on 01/02/2012 11:07:12 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Indentured servitude is alive and well. A student graduates with the equivalent of a home-loan over their head. They may never have a positive net worth.


42 posted on 01/02/2012 12:05:00 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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