And now the “fun” part: waiting for the trumpkin to show up! What will be his response this time? Will it be, “That isn’t happening?” Or will it be, “It’s a good thing it’s happening but you’re all benighted millennials so you can’t comprehend that it’s good”?
College students need to study marketing first. Then see if the degrees they are studying for are marketable. Or just read the “10 degrees that are useless” stories I see all time.
@drivingfuriously: actually, liberal arts degrees are increasingly seen as the key to being a top-level executive. This is because (as research clearly shows), a liberal arts education enables someone to process information better, making sense of it, and communicate it to others.
A college education is not the same as technical training or job training, and it shouldn’t be.
A THIRD of all Fortune 500 CEOs had liberal arts degrees, and even tech companies are realizing that the ability to connect the dots and communicate is critical.
For example: Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks, had a degree in communication. Richard Plepler, CEO of HBO has a degree in government. Carly Fiorina (ex-HP) has a degree in Medieval History and Philosophy. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, has a degree in History and Literature from Harvard (my second choice for a major, actually – I went for Psychology & Social Relations instead).
The average college graduate pays about $5800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $172,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $42,000 a year to attend school. This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, as long as the student is making decent grades, totally free, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. We don’t, even at a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.
Fortunately my 28yo employed IT son has no student loan debt/ Unfortunately I paid his tuition with his older brothers life insurance. He worked full time to cover living expesives.
Striped Cat Not only is that not fiction, but most of us didn’t even need to go that much into debt. My first quarter at Southern Illinois University in 1967 cost $79 and we rented whatever books were needed for our courses for $20, standard, no matter what books were needed. I was a first generation college grad and my folks didn’t have much money to help out. A minimum wage or even part time job kept you in a crummy room and living on raman noodles. If you were lucky you could get a fast food job and live on the leftovers. And, I paid college grad taxes from 1972 on, and was never was unemployed in my life.
I have heard that once-upon-a-time in America, student loans had super low interest rates and could be easily managed with the great well paying job you landed with your shiny new college degree. (Sometimes people even had competing job offers to pick from.) I am too young to have experienced this myself. How things used to be sounds a bit like fiction to me.
Simple answer. Remove the Federal government from college lending. No more direct loan, no more loan guarantees to banks.
In my day a college loan cold be had, but you needed to convince the loan officer you were a good risk. School transcripts, a degree course that had a realistic prospect for producing a job that would support the loan payment on top of the normal expense of a person.
For 40 years the Dems have been telling us that you cannot succeed without college degree. With the loan guarantees in place, universities created a huge block of utterly worthless course of study.
danketaz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
That last one sounds like a retread of ‘Queen for a Day’.
Monster Hesh almost 6 years ago
And now the “fun” part: waiting for the trumpkin to show up! What will be his response this time? Will it be, “That isn’t happening?” Or will it be, “It’s a good thing it’s happening but you’re all benighted millennials so you can’t comprehend that it’s good”?
drivingfuriously Premium Member almost 6 years ago
College students need to study marketing first. Then see if the degrees they are studying for are marketable. Or just read the “10 degrees that are useless” stories I see all time.
Motivemagus almost 6 years ago
@drivingfuriously: actually, liberal arts degrees are increasingly seen as the key to being a top-level executive. This is because (as research clearly shows), a liberal arts education enables someone to process information better, making sense of it, and communicate it to others.
A college education is not the same as technical training or job training, and it shouldn’t be.
A THIRD of all Fortune 500 CEOs had liberal arts degrees, and even tech companies are realizing that the ability to connect the dots and communicate is critical.
For example: Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks, had a degree in communication. Richard Plepler, CEO of HBO has a degree in government. Carly Fiorina (ex-HP) has a degree in Medieval History and Philosophy. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, has a degree in History and Literature from Harvard (my second choice for a major, actually – I went for Psychology & Social Relations instead).
https://www.business2community.com/leadership/21-wildly-successful-ceos-with-liberal-arts-degrees-01293809
Diane Lee Premium Member almost 6 years ago
The average college graduate pays about $5800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $172,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $42,000 a year to attend school. This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, as long as the student is making decent grades, totally free, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. We don’t, even at a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.
oldlegodad71 almost 6 years ago
Fortunately my 28yo employed IT son has no student loan debt/ Unfortunately I paid his tuition with his older brothers life insurance. He worked full time to cover living expesives.
Diane Lee Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Striped Cat Not only is that not fiction, but most of us didn’t even need to go that much into debt. My first quarter at Southern Illinois University in 1967 cost $79 and we rented whatever books were needed for our courses for $20, standard, no matter what books were needed. I was a first generation college grad and my folks didn’t have much money to help out. A minimum wage or even part time job kept you in a crummy room and living on raman noodles. If you were lucky you could get a fast food job and live on the leftovers. And, I paid college grad taxes from 1972 on, and was never was unemployed in my life.
Striped Cat almost 6 years ago
I have heard that once-upon-a-time in America, student loans had super low interest rates and could be easily managed with the great well paying job you landed with your shiny new college degree. (Sometimes people even had competing job offers to pick from.) I am too young to have experienced this myself. How things used to be sounds a bit like fiction to me.
braindead Premium Member almost 6 years ago
This is just a reflection of the Republican principles:
Alms for the poor.
It’s not enough for me to succeed. Others must fail.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
Capitalism needs lots of losers at the bottom to keep the 1% in bail out money.
The Corebot almost 6 years ago
this kinda reminds me of Total Drama
Andylit Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Simple answer. Remove the Federal government from college lending. No more direct loan, no more loan guarantees to banks.
In my day a college loan cold be had, but you needed to convince the loan officer you were a good risk. School transcripts, a degree course that had a realistic prospect for producing a job that would support the loan payment on top of the normal expense of a person.
For 40 years the Dems have been telling us that you cannot succeed without college degree. With the loan guarantees in place, universities created a huge block of utterly worthless course of study.
Did you want fries with that?
jazzman831 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
What’s the publication cycle for this comic, 7 years?