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    Default For Toppy: College Degrees value declines

    from the WSJ:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1216...?mod=yhoofront

    and before you get all snappy, remember that I have several degrees, including an advanced degree in the biological sciences.
    My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am.

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    Damn they just want to make it so you cant get ahead no matter what you do huh?

    We have made it so exspensive to obtain that many cant even get one anyway without going into major debt.

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    Lets see how smart you are how much did they grow above inflation the 20yrs before the article says?

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    all that demoncratic rule.

    Then the publicans got back in control and see where we are now?


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    Historically Democrats have been much worse.

    Republicans have only begun to suck in our lifetimes. It's a relatively new development and we're still getting used to it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Threedee View Post
    We can thank the 80's for that.
    Fixed your typo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Epicurus View Post
    Historically Democrats have been much worse.

    Republicans have only begun to suck in our lifetimes. It's a relatively new development and we're still getting used to it.
    I can't honestly think of a Republican president this century or last century who didn't suck balls besides Eisenhower (who governed as more of an independent anyway), and all of them have been slime too, except for Eisenhower, Hoover, and Coolidge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    Fixed your typo.
    Dumbass, in the 60's, people began pouring into colleges. For many, it was because of the war, but at the same time the colleges began advertizing how important they are and how everyone's future should include college. At the same time, tuitions began to rise, and have been doing so ever since.

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    Creating degree requirements nobody can afford is the way of elitism. It's a cover charge that keeps out the riff raff.

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    The elites of this world strategically decide who to kill and when so they can keep more resources for themselves. This is just more of that.

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    The value of every working American is "declining".
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    The only people who's value has been continuously growing since the 80's is the rich and the super-rich. Especially the super-rich.

    Wonder where that's coming from?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Threedee View Post
    Dumbass, in the 60's, people began pouring into colleges. For many, it was because of the war, but at the same time the colleges began advertizing how important they are and how everyone's future should include college. At the same time, tuitions began to rise, and have been doing so ever since.
    yeah, college exemptions from Nam had a bit of an impact. Just ask our VP.
    Then the baby boomers hit about right for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    Creating degree requirements nobody can afford is the way of elitism. It's a cover charge that keeps out the riff raff.
    this is true of the AMA and CPA's, and it's spreading

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