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The Rise and Fall of a Law-School Empire Fueled by Federal Loans
Wall Street Journal ^
| November 24, 2017
| Josh Mitchell
Posted on 11/24/2017 12:46:48 PM PST by reaganaut1
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America has too many lawyers. End all federal loans and grants for law school. Let college graduates who want to be lawyers save up some money and/or get private student loans.
To: reaganaut1
the very last thing USA needs is more lawyers!
my Lord!
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” Mario Puzo (author of “The Godfather”)
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posted on
11/24/2017 12:50:10 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
(“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: reaganaut1
Go to a bunch of high school basketball teams and then immediately make the first 200 white kids you meet NBA basketball players. Make it such these kids start every NBA game. Watch how well the league does.
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posted on
11/24/2017 12:52:00 PM PST
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: reaganaut1
William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
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posted on
11/24/2017 12:54:33 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: sauropod
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posted on
11/24/2017 12:54:34 PM PST
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is Mine)
To: Fiddlstix
Hence, the Eagles’ “Get Over It”
The more I think about it,
Old Billy was right...
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posted on
11/24/2017 12:57:22 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: reaganaut1
Higher education is just the latest bubble to be blown by financialization - the confluence of government policy and government money, being chased by private money in our completely unbacked, fiat, manipulated Federal Reserve currency.
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posted on
11/24/2017 12:59:40 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: reaganaut1
I don't have a problem with them providing a substandard education, as long as the clients of the "grads" are "cut from the same cloth" so to speak.
To: Fiddlstix
dude, lawyers are the only defense against government overreach and you better wise up
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posted on
11/24/2017 1:01:47 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: reaganaut1
John Grisham, “The Rooster Bar”, tells it all.
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posted on
11/24/2017 1:03:11 PM PST
by
OregonRancher
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
To: reaganaut1
I think the Law is te only profession where increased supply of lawyers increases costs.
To: reaganaut1
WAAAAY TOO DAMN many lawyers. They stumble over each other looking for a score.
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posted on
11/24/2017 1:44:17 PM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: reaganaut1
What scares me is that this article, even though from the WSJ, is the opening shot in a “forgive the student debt from for-profit institutions” campaign. Which means that those of us working get to pay off the outstanding loans.
To: reaganaut1
More lawyers mean cheaper lawyers. Supply and demand.
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posted on
11/24/2017 1:48:51 PM PST
by
samtheman
(Liberalism is a mental disease.)
To: samtheman
More lawyers mean cheaper lawyers. Supply and demand. Sorry, more lawyers equal more lawsuits, which equals more costs to society.
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posted on
11/24/2017 2:01:52 PM PST
by
Lockbox
To: reaganaut1
University of Wisconsin Law School’s classes now number about half or less of what they did 40 years ago.
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posted on
11/24/2017 2:10:45 PM PST
by
myerson
To: myerson
There are a lot of starving lawyers out there.
Some are quite talented.
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posted on
11/24/2017 2:13:22 PM PST
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: reaganaut1
Following WWII hundreds of similar schools sprung up around the country to exploit the GI BIll.
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posted on
11/24/2017 2:28:47 PM PST
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: reaganaut1
Corporatism vs Capitalism.
What the market should want vs what the market does want.
To: yldstrk
dude, lawyers are the only defense against government overreach and you better wise up
I’d put my trust in a Marine division over a bunch of lawyers to deal with real government overreach.
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posted on
11/24/2017 2:58:54 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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