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signalmankenneth

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The Republicans Want a More Ignorant Population, So They are Cutting Educational Funds for College and Pre-College?!!

When America's young people can't afford public colleges, the US is headed toward a third-rate future.

The Republican Party, particularly the rabid Tea Party-influenced majority in the House, is embarked on a juggernaut to take the public out of everything it can in American life, including libraries, elementary and high schools, government workers, environmental protection, even parks and parking meters.

A column in CNNMoney states it bluntly:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/13/news/economy/college_tuition_middle_class/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster than incomes, it's pricing low and medium income families out of a college education," said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of financial aid sites FinAid.org and FastWeb.com.

The numbers confirm what most middle class families already know - college is becoming so expensive, it's starting to hold them back.

The crux of the problem: Tuition and fees at public universities, according to the College Board, have surged almost 130% over the last 20 years - while middle class incomes have stagnated.

The combination of privatizing public services, and thus making them less affordable to the vast majority of Americans, and lowering the wage scale for workers fortunate to have a job is making this a two-class nation.

When an increasing number of young Americans can't afford higher education, it is grievously harming the nation's future. Remember that much of our corporate intellectual property is built upon public research (just think of the Internet, which grew out of a project at the University of Illinois).

All the poobahs in DC worry so much about a hyped crisis in elementary and high school education (which has more to do with poverty than teachers), but even if magically these schools were to improve, a great many of the graduating students couldn't afford college.

Even a second grader could figure that out.

By MARK KARLIN

Remember, an ignorant populace is much easier to control, signal
 
signalmankenneth said:
The Republicans Want a More Ignorant Population, So They are Cutting Educational Funds for College and Pre-College?!!

When America's young people can't afford public colleges, the US is headed toward a third-rate future.

The Republican Party, particularly the rabid Tea Party-influenced majority in the House, is embarked on a juggernaut to take the public out of everything it can in American life, including libraries, elementary and high schools, government workers, environmental protection, even parks and parking meters.

A column in CNNMoney states it bluntly:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/13/news/economy/college_tuition_middle_class/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster than incomes, it's pricing low and medium income families out of a college education," said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of financial aid sites FinAid.org and FastWeb.com.

The numbers confirm what most middle class families already know - college is becoming so expensive, it's starting to hold them back.

The crux of the problem: Tuition and fees at public universities, according to the College Board, have surged almost 130% over the last 20 years - while middle class incomes have stagnated.

The combination of privatizing public services, and thus making them less affordable to the vast majority of Americans, and lowering the wage scale for workers fortunate to have a job is making this a two-class nation.

When an increasing number of young Americans can't afford higher education, it is grievously harming the nation's future. Remember that much of our corporate intellectual property is built upon public research (just think of the Internet, which grew out of a project at the University of Illinois).

All the poobahs in DC worry so much about a hyped crisis in elementary and high school education (which has more to do with poverty than teachers), but even if magically these schools were to improve, a great many of the graduating students couldn't afford college.

Even a second grader could figure that out.

By MARK KARLIN

Remember, an ignorant populace is much easier to control, signal
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And theres no coincidence between the continuous rise in higher education costs combined with the fact that you can no longer file bankruptcy for student loans, that are solely provided by the government? It's almost like a scam.
 
Colleges say their costs keep rising.....why.....professors need more and more compensation ?
The janitors keep getting raises....?.......
They need a new stadium that can hold 130,000 for the football team ?
New SUV's and busses for the coaches?
How about a new swimming pool for the swim team?
Whatever the reasons, why the hell should the taxpayers get strapped with the costs......

If the schools price themselves out of existence, its their loss....
If no one can afford to pay their higher and higher tuition costs, then they will sit empty and the professors can swim all day in that fancy pool
and jog around the stadium until the grass stops growing....

The only fuckin reason the tuition's are going crazy is because the government is picking up the tab and they think the government has unlimited money....

So.............get a clue as to whats really going on you fool....

If they want a college to stay viable, they will charge a competitive tuition that people can actually afford or they will sit empty, if you start charging 1000 dollars for one apple, you're gonna be stuck with a lot of rotten apples.....simple logic.


And now kenneth, your not quite as ignorant as you were when you made that idiotic far left bullshit post....
 
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The Democrats Motto: Remember, an ignorant populace is much easier to control...

Major reason why minorities vote democrat.
 
Last time I checked, big academia was dominated by the left. You may want to consider that before blaming conservatives for high tuition.

Hell, Harvard has an endowment of nearly $30 billion. It's safe to say they could be doing a LOT more to make their education more affordable. Of course, you'll NEVER hear anyone on the left criticize big academia...
 
You are like poufs in a ring!
It is not Democrats or republicans that want to keep the populace ignorand it is mega money. They are also the people who cream their jeans at the thought of the matter being divided along party lines. You, therefore are the mugs!
An uneducated population doesn't ask questions.
An uneducated population will work for less money.
An uneducated population will keep the streets clean and mean that fewer immigrants are needed.
An uneducated population will consume what it is told to consume, live like it is told to live, want what it is told to want... and die when it is told to die.

What a bunch of uneducated, racist, up-your-own-arse bastards you are. Making little fights amongst yourselves while they sit back on their 400 ft yachts, pay nothing towards society and watch you idiots die from overwork.
 
This is another example of why our country is in the financial shape its in.

No one wants to pay more taxes, but no one will allow cuts in their pet projects.
 
Lowaicue said:
An uneducated population doesn't ask questions.
An uneducated population will work for less money.
An uneducated population will keep the streets clean and mean that fewer immigrants are needed.
An uneducated population will consume what it is told to consume, live like it is told to live, want what it is told to want... and die when it is told to die.
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gosh, you make it sound like China.....
 
webbway said:
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The Democrats Motto: Remember, an ignorant populace is much easier to control...

Major reason why minorities vote democrat.
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It's an ongoing puzzle to me that righties constantly rag on \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ for trolling yet your racist, bigoted tripe gets a pass from them.
 
christiefan915 said:
It's an ongoing puzzle to me that righties constantly rag on \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ for trolling yet your racist, bigoted tripe gets a pass from them.
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Webbway is like signalmankenneth, he is a drive-by poster who makes periodic one off posts. The troll is all over this board trolling on practicly every thread. That's the difference.
 
Will any of the libs here criticize Harvard for having a $30 billion endowment? Clearly they are greedy mother fuckers.
 
Volt said:
Will any of the libs here criticize Harvard for having a $30 billion endowment? Clearly they are greedy mother fuckers.
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What should Harvard be criticized for? Having a large endowment? Why? I have no problem with it. My problem is with how Harvard spends it and that the people that contribute to Harvard operate under the illusion that they are donating to an actual charitable organization.
 
cawacko said:
Webbway is like signalmankenneth, he is a drive-by poster who makes periodic one off posts. The troll is all over this board trolling on practicly every thread. That's the difference.
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For me the difference is that Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ aren't spouting bigotry, racism and downright nastiness about people in everything they write. Now if someone can show me even one webbway post where he writes like a decent human being, I'll re-examine my comments.

Righties rag on Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ for their liberal comments, not because they're foul individuals, which is what I think of webbway.
 
christiefan915 said:
For me the difference is that Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ aren't spouting bigotry, racism and downright nastiness about people in everything they write. Now if someone can show me even one webbway post where he writes like a decent human being, I'll re-examine my comments.

Righties rag on Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ for their liberal comments, not because they're foul individuals, which is what I think of webbway.
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No, PEOPLE (that includes non-righties) rag on the troll not because he makes liberal comments but because he's a troll. If people on the right only wanted to hear ideas and comments that they agree with they would have every left leaning person on this sight on IA or they would go to a sean hannity site or something equivilent to that. The troll is about trolling. Ask non-righties like WinterBorn he'll tell you.
 
christiefan915 said:
For me the difference is that Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ aren't spouting bigotry, racism and downright nastiness about people in everything they write. Now if someone can show me even one webbway post where he writes like a decent human being, I'll re-examine my comments.

Righties rag on Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ for their liberal comments, not because they're foul individuals, which is what I think of webbway.
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That is just bullshit. The Troll is ragged on because he IS A TROLL.

Ken is disagreed with to be sure given the utter stupidity he posts. But so is Ditzie. Both are complete partisan hacks. Both are called on it. But the troll is a troll. Period.

He, like Webb is on ignore.
 
cawacko said:
No, PEOPLE (that includes non-righties) rag on the troll not because he makes liberal comments but because he's a troll. If people on the right only wanted to hear ideas and comments that they agree with they would have every left leaning person on this sight on IA or they would go to a sean hannity site or something equivilent to that. The troll is about trolling. Ask non-righties like WinterBorn he'll tell you.
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You and others still respond to Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ . Yurt especially can ruin any number of threads with his ongoing feud. So why don't you guys put the people you don't like on IA?

Looks to me like some of you want it both ways, telling me to ignore webbway but engaging with Ken and \(\(\(\/)/)/)/ yourselves.

Edit: By engaging, I mean commenting on their posts indirectly even if you (pl.) don't actually talk to them.
 
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