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1 posted on 08/03/2011 11:39:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Close the Department of misEducation and end all Federal involvement in education, except service academies.

2 posted on 08/03/2011 11:44:35 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)

Some Facts about College Graduates in the USA:

http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-student-loan-debt-2010-12?op=1

* Approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans

* The Project on Student Debt estimates that 206,000 Americans graduated from college with more than $40,000 in student loan debt during 2008

* In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees

* There are about two million recent college graduates that are currently unemployed

* Total student loan debt in the United States is now increasing at a rate of approximately $2,853.88 per second

* There are 365,000 cashiers in the United States today that have college degrees

* In 1992, there were 5.1 million “underemployed” college graduates in the United States. In 2008, there were 17 million “underemployed” college graduates in the United States

* In the United States today, over 18,000 parking lot attendants have college degrees

* A staggering 85 percent of college seniors planned to move back home after graduation

* The typical U.S. college student spends less than 30 hours a week on academics

3 posted on 08/03/2011 11:44:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)

College education is waaaay overpriced. The readily available loans have a lot to do with this.

5 posted on 08/03/2011 11:47:15 AM PDT by Huskrrrr

The Left will be so pleased -- we're targetting all the rich eggheads with advanced degrees. Take that! Rich guys like you with that fancy MBA from Yale, and that Medical degree from Harvard! HA! You're gonna pay now!!!!

Oh. Wait. Those folks are the Left. When the Left wants to target "the rich", they mean Joe the printer who started a small print shop 30 years ago and now owns 4 stores and employs 60 people. He's the guy they want to "get".

6 posted on 08/03/2011 11:47:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)

Graduate Students (except maybe for Docs and Vets) need to go get a job and go to school part-time.

7 posted on 08/03/2011 11:48:12 AM PDT by Paladin2

10 posted on 08/03/2011 11:51:05 AM PDT by Palter (Celebrate diversity .22, .223, .25, 9mm, .32 .357, 10mm, .44, .45, .500)

oh....boo hoo....

Graduate work is seldom worth much if it hasn’t been seasoned with a bit of real world work experience, following your undergraduate degree.

Then, either you or your company can pay for it.

Nobody will want to be a Doc under Obamacare anyway and we already have too many lawyers.

12 posted on 08/03/2011 11:55:20 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)

15 posted on 08/03/2011 11:58:01 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)

They’ll just go back to China.

17 posted on 08/03/2011 12:04:38 PM PDT by Last Dakotan

These good little liberal Marxists should be happy and proud to pay their fair share at a time when most people can’t afford to go to school to get Master’s degrees.

20 posted on 08/03/2011 12:23:15 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)

I don’t think the government should be in the college loan business, anyway.

22 posted on 08/03/2011 12:33:59 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)

so sorry!

hafta forget your foucault and derrida studies.

29 posted on 08/03/2011 1:31:16 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)

Based on my experience in academia, most of the ‘grad’ students here are foreigners anyway....I sure as hell hope they have to pay up big time.

33 posted on 08/03/2011 2:11:23 PM PDT by Gaffer

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