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Yes, college should be free
UMass Daily Collegian ^ | 4/11/16 | Civitarese

Posted on 04/11/2016 1:03:32 PM PDT by pabianice

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To: Buckeye McFrog

And why isn’t THAT guy living/working in his home country? Maybe because his home country is a sh!thole and he would be having the bejeezus taxed out of him if he was there.


81 posted on 04/11/2016 1:29:18 PM PDT by Zman516 ( Truth is the new hate-speech. Thought-Criminal #1)
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To: pabianice

They want free not freedom. They don’t realize they will be enslaved later to pay for it.


82 posted on 04/11/2016 1:29:29 PM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: pabianice

This is like a scene from the movie Idiocracy.

Dr. Lexus: Don’t worry scro’! There are plenty of ‘tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was ‘tarded. She’s a pilot now.


83 posted on 04/11/2016 1:29:29 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Jim Robinson
I think all college professors should work for free.

Most would be overpaid at that.

84 posted on 04/11/2016 1:29:47 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Darth Reardon

I was just going to post the same thing... WTH?


85 posted on 04/11/2016 1:29:52 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Blasphemy!!


86 posted on 04/11/2016 1:30:09 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: pabianice

I think everything should be free and I should be able to have as much as I want!! where do I sign up for this utopian splendor?


87 posted on 04/11/2016 1:30:23 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pabianice

The problem is the enormous expense. Loan shelters should be in place for college tuition. Limits on tuition amounts, loan interest, etc. These same universities take federal money to enforce sensitivity crap, the can rein in their rates. They can cut out useless, frivolous classes. They can downsize to STEM. They can stop restricting male sports, and charge admittance for crowds - people don’t watch female sports nearly as much.

But the last people on earth who should be asked about fiscal balancing are snowflakes.


88 posted on 04/11/2016 1:30:55 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Night Hides Not

You will not be able to pay for today’s engineering programs with anything but a loan. You haven’t kept up with the cost of an undergrad degree in engineering. It starts at $9000 per year just for tuition.

If you try to work while going to school, your grades will go down.

The schools are flooded with foreign students who don’t have to work. So, if you’re trying to work, you will be at a competitive disadvantage to the foreigners.

There are too many of you on this thread with no knowledge of what’s actually happening in our engineering schools and tech companies.


89 posted on 04/11/2016 1:31:06 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: CodeToad
Today’s little snowflakes

Fortunately, America is still producing a sufficiency of young men who are not 'little snowflakes'. The snowflakes probably wouldn't even make it past the front door of the "Armed Forces Career Center".

90 posted on 04/11/2016 1:31:24 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: pabianice
Does anybody know why Vermont does not have "free" tuition for their public colleges? If The Bern's constituents don't want to pay for their kid's tuition why should other people?

(Yes I know Sanders is a US Senator, not a state official, but it seems like a state that elects a Socialist would have enough Socialists and sympathizers to support "free" college at a state level as well.)
91 posted on 04/11/2016 1:31:37 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Actually, he got it for free, here.

And that is the argument that makes the most sense.


92 posted on 04/11/2016 1:32:06 PM PDT by redgolum
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To: rovenstinez

And ham trees should be free. I want a free ham tree in my back yard RIGHT NOW. Don’t bother me with that “ham trees don’t exist” crap. You’re just trying to oppress me and deprive me of ham! I have a right to free ham!!!!


93 posted on 04/11/2016 1:32:33 PM PDT by henkster
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To: Obadiah

You say that as if all grads are stupid.

The fact is, the majority of the grads are working and steadily paying off the debt. The debt and easy money parts are true, but the snowflake garbage is garbage. You hear only the few who are whining about it.


94 posted on 04/11/2016 1:33:04 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: pabianice

What I learned in my college economics class is, if anything of value is made to be free it will have to be rationed.

So, if you can pass the wicked entrance requirements you get free college. This is how it works in other countries, but the Dems leave that part out.


95 posted on 04/11/2016 1:33:42 PM PDT by toast
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To: PapaBear3625

“And what is the acceptance rate in his country? In other countries, if you do not have what it takes to achieve (IQ plus evidence of studying hard) you do not get in. “

Many colleges here have no or low entrance requirements; however, they also have high failure rates.


96 posted on 04/11/2016 1:34:13 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: pabianice

Nothing is more expensive than ‘free’ things


97 posted on 04/11/2016 1:35:07 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Chickensoup
And why is he here?

Because his home country couldn't give him gainful employment, so he had to undercut the wage structure in this evil capitalist country by undercutting wages on an H1B program.

When I worked in Japan (1988-2002) as their equivalent as an H1B employee, the companies had to pay us a PREMIUM over the locals as a condition for the visa. Imagine that! Fewer foreign workers but happier ones who didn't resent the natives and, instead, appreciated the opportunity.

Further, I actually raised the wage level on my Japanese counterparts by earning that wage premium, encouraging more of them to go into similar work and forcing me to get better every year so I could justify that premium pay.

98 posted on 04/11/2016 1:35:10 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: henkster

Free ham sandwiches for all! And free beer!


99 posted on 04/11/2016 1:35:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: pabianice

But only if, after you graduate and get that great job, your work is free of charge as well.


100 posted on 04/11/2016 1:35:41 PM PDT by MissNomer
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