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Let's keep patting ourselves on the back, shall we! Regardless of how irrelevant it is to the issue.
It's also dead wrong. In the past, states supported higher education, keeping tuition affordable for students. As state budgets have gotten tighter, the first thing to get slashed was higher education spending.
And that's just a tiny slice of something that's been happening for at least a decade now.
We've somehow decided that investing in public education isn't a priority and decided to shift the cost directly onto the students. Then people have the audacity (or sheer stupidity) to say that the problem is really federal student loans.
well I had my parents paying my college education. But there are a lot of people who are not as fortunate as I am. Don't be so near sighted, when government is not investing in education, we all lose. But then again you will never admit it.
And then there's the option some of us made -- work your way through college.
How many of these college students that took out big loans have iPhones and unlimited text messaging? How many own video game players with a big collection of expensive video games? How many chose to make car payments while in college? How often did they eat meals out, go to concerts? Wild spring break vacations?
People go to college so they can make big money, why should others have to pay for them?
And then there's the option some of us made -- work your way through college.
How many of these college students that took out big loans have iPhones and unlimited text messaging? How many own video game players with a big collection of expensive video games? How many chose to make car payments while in college? How often did they eat meals out, go to concerts? Wild spring break vacations?
People go to college so they can make big money, why should others have to pay for them?
well I think you missed my point. I never said some people should pay for others higher education.
I just said government should "invest in" education. e.g. Not make interest of student loan 6.75% or higher than that.
well I think you missed my point. I never said some people should pay for others higher education.
I just said government should "invest in" education. e.g. Not make interest of student loan 6.75% or higher than that.
That's all.
The government gets it's money by confiscating it from those who worked for it.
A college degree will get you a much higher paying job -- it sounds like something one would invest in themselves. Who should be paying more taxes so the college students neither have to work for it or pay back their loans?
This is what happens when government gets involved in the name of helping the poor. Government dabbling drives costs up and makes more poor people.
It depends on the government. Most nations in the developed world provide financial assistance to students. Yet the cost of that education is rarely as costly as it is in the US.
It's also dead wrong. In the past, states supported higher education, keeping tuition affordable for students. As state budgets have gotten tighter, the first thing to get slashed was higher education spending.
And that's just a tiny slice of something that's been happening for at least a decade now.
We've somehow decided that investing in public education isn't a priority and decided to shift the cost directly onto the students. Then people have the audacity (or sheer stupidity) to say that the problem is really federal student loans.
The US spends on K-12, not college.
Foreigners seem to have no problem paying the tuition and their tuition is much higher than resident or out of state tuition.
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