Bernie Sanders Wants Huge ‘Robin Hood’ Stock Tax To Make College Free

lending money to students should be illegal, just like lending money for Social Security

I mean for crying out loud, we are the greatest nation on earth, and we can't educate our children?
 
and yes, they are still children. Women are waiting longer to give birth, so the age of a child is getting older. (you have to think about that one)
 
TGregg said:
If I were starting out today, I'd pick up a trade - no question. Less time in classrooms and get a job where you can point at your results.

Interesting to see the bubbles in stuff people buy, whether it is a sheepskin, a new house or healthcare. All three are bubbleiscous, have a whole lot of government interference (including plenty of civil rights laws) and plenty of not paying for years and years. If the car companies could make cars last 30 years (so they can crank out 360 month financing), the price of automobiles would soar! Heck, they could probably get 200k for them.

Guess that is also the plan on all this software-as-a-service. Charge a Jackson a month forever instead of $60 all at once.



Tell me how PhDs in music and woman's studies is gonna do that, Bernie. The people that want STEM classes will find a way to get into school. The people waiting on the freebies generally aren't rocket scientists.
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I just got an announcement about a cousin's kid graduating from college... with a "BA in Vocal Performance". Money well spent, I'm sure.
 
what do you want, a degree in T Shirt Manufacturing? That's where the "jobs" are.

Don't buy in to this "jobs" and "workers" communist crap

The democrats won't be happy until everybody is a "worker" and has a "job."
 
local govt. there is a vital difference. you see your neighbors. they are less easily corrupted.
your buddy in the D.A. s office can make a name for themselves by going after corruption.... or you kid and all his friends tell their kid their parent is a commie so they have cooties.

and most importantly... we can and do vote with our feet.


loyek590 said:
oh for crying out loud, we have free one through 12, that's how I was educated and it was a very good education (before the Department of Education) and you are bitching about another 4 years?
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TGregg said:
If I were starting out today, I'd pick up a trade - no question. Less time in classrooms and get a job where you can point at your results.

Interesting to see the bubbles in stuff people buy, whether it is a sheepskin, a new house or healthcare. All three are bubbleiscous, have a whole lot of government interference (including plenty of civil rights laws) and plenty of not paying for years and years. If the car companies could make cars last 30 years (so they can crank out 360 month financing), the price of automobiles would soar! Heck, they could probably get 200k for them.

Guess that is also the plan on all this software-as-a-service. Charge a Jackson a month forever instead of $60 all at once.



Tell me how PhDs in music and woman's studies is gonna do that, Bernie. The people that want STEM classes will find a way to get into school. The people waiting on the freebies generally aren't rocket scientists.
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Yeah, I agree 100% if I was starting out, I would go into trades too, you get to work while you are in school, and in lots of cases companies will pick up your training for you while you are getting a degree, and you dont end up starting your life 200k in debt.

I was lucky when I got my degree, I had a sweet business hauling stuff to the dump for a living, (that industry has now been taken over by 1-800-got-junk) it was easy work and I used to make a killing at it cleaning up renovation sites and stuff like that, so I was able to pay for my college while I went. My degree is basically worthless now, as I wound up becoming a trader anyways, but thankfully it is not a boat anchor with 200k of debt holding me down like so many people.
 
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Scataphagos said:
I just got an announcement about a cousin's kid graduating from college... with a "BA in Vocal Performance". Money well spent, I'm sure.
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I once heard a scientist say, "there are only 4-studies worthwhile in college.. science and math, and math and science".

Lotta truth in that.

Why would anyone with half-a-brain spend a couple hundred thousand on a stupid-ass, worthless degree?

Don't you go to college to "train and condition your brain"? To learn how to think critically? (I remember freshman orientation... some guy said, "don't just take basket weaving and the easy classes.... you're here to challenge, condition and train your brain") That's what science and math are all about.

What then is the use of a degree (other than to satisfy your parents they got something for their money) in..... well, whatever??

(I wasn't concerned about what my parents might have thought about my college... I paid my own way through... and wanted "something for my money".... didn't end up with exactly what I'd envisioned, but a "BS in Science" isn't the same as a BA in African or Women's Studies. Personally, I view a "BA in Anything" is nothing more than regurgitation and fluff...)
 
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Scataphagos said:
I once heard a scientist say, "there are only 4-studies worthwhile in college.. science and math, and math and science".

Lotta truth in that.
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If that statement is valid and reliable, it was made by someone who studied... history, sociology, economics, what?
 
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