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    Default Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?

    The Biden administration has proposed reforms to ease the student-debt crisis. But a real solution must upend a system of cascading inequities. Restoring the dream of higher education as an equalizer requires a holistic solution that attacks all the sources of the problem: a lack of investment in common goods, growing tuition and student debt and exploitative labor practices that undermine the quality of education.

    The rise in tuition costs, combined with the growing economic value of a college degree, fuels the crisis of student debt, which today totals $1.7 trillion. To pay for a year of school, three-quarters of American families pay at least 24 percent of their average family income, even after grants are distributed.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/o...t-sanders.html

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    Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?

    Only if Trump approves of the curriculum.

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    the best way to make an already worthless piece of paper even more worthless is to give it away for free
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drummie123 View Post
    Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?

    Only if Trump approves of the curriculum.
    I see, you're a troll.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    the best way to make an already worthless piece of paper even more worthless is to give it away for free
    The last 40 years have seen an ever-widening income gap between those with college degrees and those without. Over that interval, incomes have soared for those with advanced degrees and declined for those with high-school diplomas or less.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/o...t-sanders.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    The last 40 years have seen an ever-widening income gap between those with college degrees and those without. Over that interval, incomes have soared for those with advanced degrees and declined for those with high-school diplomas or less.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/o...t-sanders.html
    and if your desired outcome is to reduce those higher incomes to become a median with lower incomes, then make them free. Microsoft certifications went through the same thing when they first came out..........
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    and if your desired outcome is to reduce those higher incomes to become a median with lower incomes, then make them free. Microsoft certifications went through the same thing when they first came out..........
    Yes, a B.S. in mechanical engineering is as good as a car mechanic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Yes, a B.S. in mechanical engineering is as good as a car mechanic.
    a person graduated with a free BS degree in mechanical engineering is likely nowhere near as good as a car mechanic.........
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    a person graduated with a free BS degree in mechanical engineering is likely nowhere near as good as a car mechanic.........
    When did you drop out of high school? Tenth grade?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    the best way to make an already worthless piece of paper even more worthless is to give it away for free

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    When did you drop out of high school? Tenth grade?
    I'm sorry....did you really think it was necessary to demonstrate your ignorance again?......believe me when I say, we are all convinced.......

    now, here's your free Mechanical Engineering diploma.....wear it in good health......

    https://www.dreamteee.com/mechanical...BoCMV8QAvD_BwE
    Isaiah 6:5
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    I'm sorry....did you really think it was necessary to demonstrate your ignorance again?......believe me when I say, we are all convinced.......
    Junior year? When did you flunk out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I see, you're a troll.
    You get everything wrong, don't you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Junior year? When did you flunk out?
    I see you're a troll......I also see you aren't very good at it......
    Isaiah 6:5
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    I see you're a troll......I also see you aren't very good at it......
    My thread. You don't have to post on it.

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