Colleges: "Thanks! We're raising tuition by $10,000!"
Posted on 06/12/2014 4:16:35 AM PDT by markomalley
RATS buying educated voters
The ‘Rats are merely merely doing the buying.
We do the paying.
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And people are gonna get upset with helping out college graduates??? I got no problem with this. I much rather help out struggling college grads than all those mentioned above.
“public sector jobs, which tend to pay less than work for private companies”
This is BS
Why do you think it's okay for these students who took the loans to steal from the US taxpayer instead of meeting their financial obligations?
Unforgivable.
You must have ignored my articles about bailouts.
And no colleges are inexpensive for the poor working class. My point is who I would prefer to bail out. Not Wall St., no GM, not Hamas, not insurers, not Detroit - young people who are struggling to find jobs.
You are missing the point: If the government is going to continue to use the colleges to indoctrinate and subsidize their ‘class’ then NO WAY are my tax dollars going to subsidize it.
Put the debt ‘on hold’, stop penalties & interest perhaps, but NO FORGIVENESS! PERIOD.
There are consequences for lousy choices. The direct analogy to this is paying a misbehaving child their allowance and/or giving them candy. I don’t care how old the ‘child’ is now...they can take responsibility for their school and, by consequence in most cases, their ‘voting’ choices.
This is not a political matter; it’s an ethical one.
“There are consequences for lousy choices.”
Unless you are an big banker, auto exec, democratic city, health insurer...
And since when do we get to decide where our tax dollars go? I’m against a lot of things but when I file my taxes, I don’t get the check a box of where I want my money spent, unless it’s $1 for presidential elections.
Why do you hate people who tried to get an education?
Why is it okay to throw away trillions of dollars for wars that kill young people but not try to help them financially?
And not all colleges/universities are liberal.
Public sector law is nice work, if you can get it. Fact is, you can't. Much of this type of work is being contracted out now.
Colleges: "Thanks! We're raising tuition by $10,000!"
Government requires children to attend school and taxpayers pay for it. Why not college, too, for those who qualify?
Not that the GOP has the guts to do this,
But if the GOP could win more than just the off year backlash elections (2010, 2014) then couldn't they just change the law such that those same people have to pay that $$$ back after all?
I know there's a couple of hypotheticals in that.
OF COURSE they are! A combination of two years at community college for an Associate's Degree, then night school or online courses to complete the BA while holding a job avoids college debt. Military Academies and ROTC programs used at schools one can commute to pay for college. For the truly qualified, they can take their qualifications to a school that's excellent but not top tier and get scholarships instead of loans. Students can develop a job school such as basic accounting or with a one-year tech degree (often offered through high schools) and use the money they can make to pay for school.
If they're not qualified for any of these, college loans are just a huge scam....a transfer of wealth to the academia elite, to spend their whole privileged lives in their ivy-covered bastions of liberal manipulation.
The statistics about how college vs non-college grads do don't tell the whole picutre. The top quarter of HS grads seem to put together excellent lives. The bottom quarter of college grads tend to end up with useless degrees.
Classic credit bubble. Now how do we short it? ;-)
But 10% of zero is zero, and stay at home moms earn zero.
No different from the GOP bailed out Wall Street banks. The gov brought all their tozic mortgages and notes and gave them newly printed money to loan out to the economy and consumers hoping to jump start the economy. CEO used it to get bonuses and invest in the stock market in lieu of the US economy. Atleast a taxpayer bailout of student loans will free up the student to consider moving out of parents home, settle down and buy a home. Don t get me wrong, both involve a bailout at taxpayers expense, but one group took our money and kept it for themselves, while the other group may use the relief to move on with their lives, get marry and buy homes and eventually stimulate Main Street economy.
I feel like a chump making my children go to public universities and work their way through so the can graduate debt free.
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