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To: jerry557

The life time earnings difference between a HS diploma and a bachelor’s degree is a about a million dollars according to the various articles pushing the value of a college education.

Guess what that $100K in student loans is going to cost her in interest? About a million bucks if she makes minimum payments. Federal Plus loans like she has are 8.5% fixed.

The only ones that are better off because she has a degree are the lenders and the college. It’s turned into a racket. Does she really need that BA to be a photographer’s assistant? Really?

Her BA was not a ticket to higher lifetime earnings, it was a ticket to lifetime debt slavery.


80 posted on 06/01/2010 6:02:24 PM PDT by Valpal1 ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.")
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To: Valpal1

And those claims of that kind of lifetime difference in earnings are bogus, and rapidly becoming more bogus every day as the economy hollows out.


83 posted on 06/01/2010 6:15:00 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Valpal1

>>Her BA was not a ticket to higher lifetime earnings, it was a ticket to lifetime debt slavery.<<

It is called choosing. We all do it. Sometimes it comes out well, sometimes not.


88 posted on 06/01/2010 6:27:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
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