I don’t know which is worse… being a young graduate unable to find work beyond the low-paying McJobs, or looking for work when you’re over 60 and even the McJobs don’t want you. And they say the recession ended years ago…
But what about those among us who LOVE to troll the wingnuts in advance, as when I post something challenging the dubious intelligence of Ms Ima? Sending the blood pressure of some elderly right-winger into the stratosphere is what brings joy to my mornings.
The price of higher education, like the price of health care, is exploding because the consumer is insulated from price increases by the benevolent government. Once easy access to government education loans dries up, the cost of college will have to go down, because the number of people able to pay for it will diminish. Simple supply and demand economics.
I’m tired of seeing the phrase so I looked it up in Wiki Troll: “someone who posts inflammatory messages. . .with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.” And this differs from the typical person who posts on this site or any politics-related site just how? Even if you consider yourself sober, well-informed, and erudite, the people on the other side of whatever ground you occupy will rip you apart.
My offering on the day’s topic is much like the fellow above. Go to a cheaper school,, avoid borrowing, get all the grants you can, pay as you go, get a degree which will do you some imaginable good in the workplace. And the point I try to get across to young people: If you want to major in something that has no apparent economic value, do so, but get a job and do it two classes a semester. If it’s not going to get you a job, what difference does it make if it takes you ten years to get the degree? My inflammatory view is that we should return to the days when government sponsored student loans were for people majoring in things of obvious value such as teaching, engineering, medicine and science. If the student’s interests were only of a less useful nature, then reread the first part of the paragraph.
And by “obvious value” I mean obvious value to society, not just the economic good of the individual student. We need a distinction between useful degrees and hobby degrees. It’s your right to pursue a hobby degree, but do it with your own time and money.
I’d like someone to tell me why we are loaning money to banks at less than 1% interest, when most of their bigwigs should be in orange jumpsuits. Yet, we are proposing to make students, who are the future of our society, pay at least nine times as much. What a country.
Why did you flag Richards comment? Were you wanting to continue feeding the trolls? Now I understand. You want to make sure that you continue to be fed.“HERE TROLL! HERE TROLL”
tedsini almost 11 years ago
Ahem, now about that $120,000 student loan …. That’s the ultimate “other shoe” that drops about 6 months after graduation.
ConserveGov almost 11 years ago
Those young burger flippers and the low information inner-city voters are the reason we have that Hopey, Changey guy in DC.
How’s that working out for you?
The Old Wolf almost 11 years ago
I don’t know which is worse… being a young graduate unable to find work beyond the low-paying McJobs, or looking for work when you’re over 60 and even the McJobs don’t want you. And they say the recession ended years ago…
jazzmoose almost 11 years ago
But…but…how did you post before the troll?
Vermont Premium Member almost 11 years ago
But what about those among us who LOVE to troll the wingnuts in advance, as when I post something challenging the dubious intelligence of Ms Ima? Sending the blood pressure of some elderly right-winger into the stratosphere is what brings joy to my mornings.
Snarky almost 11 years ago
The price of higher education, like the price of health care, is exploding because the consumer is insulated from price increases by the benevolent government. Once easy access to government education loans dries up, the cost of college will have to go down, because the number of people able to pay for it will diminish. Simple supply and demand economics.
Rickapolis almost 11 years ago
How many burgers must a graduate flip to pay off six digit student loans? Hell, indeed.
dennis17 almost 11 years ago
I’m tired of seeing the phrase so I looked it up in Wiki Troll: “someone who posts inflammatory messages. . .with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.” And this differs from the typical person who posts on this site or any politics-related site just how? Even if you consider yourself sober, well-informed, and erudite, the people on the other side of whatever ground you occupy will rip you apart.
My offering on the day’s topic is much like the fellow above. Go to a cheaper school,, avoid borrowing, get all the grants you can, pay as you go, get a degree which will do you some imaginable good in the workplace. And the point I try to get across to young people: If you want to major in something that has no apparent economic value, do so, but get a job and do it two classes a semester. If it’s not going to get you a job, what difference does it make if it takes you ten years to get the degree? My inflammatory view is that we should return to the days when government sponsored student loans were for people majoring in things of obvious value such as teaching, engineering, medicine and science. If the student’s interests were only of a less useful nature, then reread the first part of the paragraph.
dennis17 almost 11 years ago
And by “obvious value” I mean obvious value to society, not just the economic good of the individual student. We need a distinction between useful degrees and hobby degrees. It’s your right to pursue a hobby degree, but do it with your own time and money.
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
I’d like someone to tell me why we are loaning money to banks at less than 1% interest, when most of their bigwigs should be in orange jumpsuits. Yet, we are proposing to make students, who are the future of our society, pay at least nine times as much. What a country.
Woody157 almost 11 years ago
Why did you flag Richards comment? Were you wanting to continue feeding the trolls? Now I understand. You want to make sure that you continue to be fed.“HERE TROLL! HERE TROLL”