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- allowners, on 04/20/2008, -16/+163Clearly there are no long-term plans for the average citizen in this country. What kind of country doesn't lay the groundwork for improving its future prospects by providing quality education for its citizens? And now they want to triple H1B quotas because there are no "qualified American applicants."
http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/congr ... - theorwells, on 04/20/2008, -12/+143Remember that before Reagan became Governor of California that the UC system actually provided TUITION-FREE college for qualified applicants. There are still many countries that place such a high-value upon having an educated populace that tuition is either FREE or heavily subsidized by the Government. If the US would stop engaging in WASTEFUL tax expenditures for Military Adventures that provide Corpoate Welfare for Contractors such as Haliburton---you'd have plenty of tax revenues available for at least a Government-funded dent in tuition costs (and let's not even get into health care!) Anybody remember all that money that the collapse of the Soviet Union would free up for social expenditures instead of supporting the military-industrial complex? It was called the PEACE DIVIDEND! And though we have been suckered back into that financial abyss...one day, soon, after the war in Iraq and the forthcoming war in Iran has thoroughly wrecked the US economy and driven even the war-profiteers into tears, one day, I hope, the American people will awaken as a whole and the powers that be will respond by significantly putting the tax-dollars into Higher Education for WE THE PEOPLE, as opposed to pouring funds into endless, needless, and futile Wars.
- AlwaysAwake, on 04/20/2008, -84/+192The rich like the idea of having the riff-raff out of the way, instead of cluttering up classrooms. Higher gas prices keep them off the roads too. Higher food and merchandise prices make for quicker checkouts at the cashier, without all the common folks getting in the way. More expendable cannon fodder for the military too since not being able to go to school, they can join up to defend the properties and farflung interests of the rich and powerful.
- allowners, on 04/20/2008, -15/+106Be careful, those federal rebate checks may also bounce. If you have a yard, plant some edibles for hard times, so while your neighbors might have to eat herbicide laced grass, you can eat fruit from your trees and veggies from the garden. And remember, dandelions are both edible and very nutritious, think twice before murdering them for vanity. ;-)
- allowners, on 04/20/2008, -8/+78A former colleague contacted me recently saying his son has finished his current term in the Air Force and feels like he is in a quandary because the job market is so bad he doesn't like his prospects, yet, if he re-ups, he would face the prospect of possible deployment to Iraq.
- secrity, on 04/20/2008, -5/+74You an also eat fruit from your neighbor's trees and veggies from their garden.
- whatthefu, on 04/20/2008, -9/+67That's pretty cynical. It's far more complicated than you think. However, it's still *****.
- loggia, on 04/20/2008, -2/+57Once upon a time... as in about 20 years ago, lower income students received most of their financial aid in Pell Grants. Well, the Republicans (and some Democrats) had a swell idea. Why not just loan the money to students in need, and create a very lucrative private industry of lending students money. In fact, it would such a good deal, that if the student didn't repay the loan, the government would step in and pay it.
Twenty years later, numerous scandals tying financial aid officers to loan companies, and now lenders who can't even remain solvent when their loans are guaranteed?
What the hell happened? And what will happen to the students who used to get grants, then got loans and now are being told they and their family better have rock solid credit?
Did anyone forgot what student financial aid was supposed to be? It was never supposed to be an industry for profit... - strafefire, on 04/20/2008, -31/+81Peter Schiff, The Daily Reckoning, the Mises Institute, and even Ron Paul called this turmoil years ago.
I know that I am going to get buried to hell for this, but those that did not vote for Ron Paul deserve every little bit of this.
I know that it is very mean spirited to say this, but oh well. What is done, is done.
Hopefully, those who are in Congress will learn from this and stop creating deficit budgets, and inquiry more into what the hell Federal Reserve did to put us in this mess. But odds are, they won't... - raeshao, on 04/20/2008, -2/+52Dugg up as a cool setting for a dystopian thriller.
- StingingNettle, on 04/20/2008, -3/+53"The chief of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Eric S. Rosengren, said in an interview that no one expected the turmoil in the credit markets to last this long." That's an out right lie. Maybe no body he knew, but economists at the Daily Reckoning predicted the fall out years ago, and stated when it did happened it could last years.
- StingingNettle, on 04/20/2008, -3/+48Well, on the plus side, schools may have be forced to start actually lowering the cost of tuition. But then you would still have to have money saved up, and well us Americans haven't been doing that.
- pendrachken, on 04/21/2008, -1/+44You can also eat your nasty stealing neighbors o.O
- subterfuge, on 04/20/2008, -25/+67yeah, you know what? lets just get rid of all the rich people. we don't need business leaders. we'll just let the working man run the factory. they tried that in russia, and it worked really well.
- pintomp3, on 04/21/2008, -3/+44"You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —President George W. Bush, to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushism- ...
talk about out of touch. - StaticThunder, on 04/20/2008, -17/+58Couldn't do any worse than the ***** that drive their companies in the ground and walk away with $50 million dollar severance packages.Keep defending the greedy, I'm sure they'll return the favor to you. Do you really think a business degree and an ability to rob people makes you a "business leader". Seems like thats all it takes nowaday, and enablers like you keep pushing this idea that its okay.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -5/+44Under what conditions would you _start_ blaming our "leadership" ?
---> When you have to work three jobs? - cubicledrone, on 04/21/2008, -1/+38Hey *****, our parents worked ONE job and owned a home that nobody ever foreclosed on. They had almost no credit card debt and gas was 75c a gallon. For most of the people in our generation, getting three paychecks from the same company over two years is like winning the ***** Super Bowl. So what's your problem? You need a map?
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -15/+49No Child Left Behind baby
I don't understand why every kid should not be given a low interest rate loan to go and educate himself?
Are the Republicans afraid that once people go to school and evolve out of the retard stage of their existence they will no longer vote for them any longer? - wildmXranat, on 04/20/2008, -1/+35This is a good time to review $20,000 - $45,000 tuition fees. WTF!!
Average fees north of the border: $5,000 . - zephyr42, on 04/20/2008, -8/+40It's all about eliminating the middle class :-(
- Strongo, on 04/20/2008, -3/+35Com'on. Bush said anybody that is sick should just go to the emergency room. His advice for college students is going to be "Anybody that wants to learn should just to the library, they're free after all"
- ThetaDot, on 04/20/2008, -21/+50You really think this is all by design? Please.
- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -2/+30No, best is having lots of guns and the immobile garden. For shooting bastards dumb enough to think they can get mine.
- Hobofuzz, on 04/20/2008, -15/+42Yeah, but some of us want to actually enjoy life.
- Rossoneri22, on 04/20/2008, -1/+28Not UC's. Just last week I got an email saying tuition rates will be increasing next quarter, just like they did last quarter...and the quarter before that...oh and the quarter before that...
- MikeSD34, on 04/21/2008, -5/+30Unless you've inherited a bucket of money, you're going to have to work, that's just the way life works. It's never been easy, and it's never going to be easy.
- StaticThunder, on 04/20/2008, -7/+31Better just to buy guns instead of an immobile garden, then you can just take what you need and move on, not have to worry about defending it from the people eating herbicide laced grass.
- LordHelmet, on 04/20/2008, -1/+24Wow, a lot of people here have no idea whats really happened with the student loan industry. Congress has decided to limit the types of student benefits that banks that offer for private loans. In effect, they have made it unprofitable for banks to loan kids money that is not guaranteed by the federal government. Banks are folding their student loan departments because there is no way for them to make money by lending students money.
- kylere, on 04/20/2008, -2/+25Why were you discharged? I have never known an honorably discharged service member asked to repay housing allowance.
- TinternAbbot, on 04/21/2008, -11/+32EVERYONE OF US wants to enjoy life. That doesn't excuse us from working for our keep.
- greenlight2001, on 04/20/2008, -2/+22Try working your way through medical school. Good luck with that one.
- tibbon, on 04/20/2008, -1/+20Student loans will be the next thing to hit the fan. Unlike a home, car, or boat.. the banks have nothing to reposes in the short term. Bankruptcy doesn't clear most student loans but that doesn't mean that they can sucessfully collect on them immediately either. They were low margin loans to begin with and few are secured well. The market/economy goes down the hole, the cost of college is increasing and soon people will be unable to pay and the banks unable to get their money.
- PeppermintPig, on 04/20/2008, -3/+22FTA: "But the slowing economy has many parents in worse financial shape than in the recent past."
It can't be stressed enough: So many media outlets generalize the problem as a slowing economy and wait with baited breath for the Fed or gov officials to indicate the status of the economy, but the media should really get on the ball and call this for what it is: The Federal Reserve's humongous series of *****-up bailouts which are destroying the value of the USD. - cubicledrone, on 04/21/2008, -4/+23Life's great when every bill comes with a paycheck stapled to it, right?
And if millions of people have to work two jobs something's wrong. - secrity, on 04/20/2008, -1/+20No, you just have to send it to someplace else.
- YodaJones, on 04/20/2008, -2/+21Those college dorms better make room because whole families may have to live in them soon.
- zephyr42, on 04/20/2008, -2/+21No, in US news, we use US terminology.
- FyreFiend, on 04/21/2008, -0/+18Nah, just seer him on all sides before roasting and he'll be juicy and sweet
- faizal5k, on 04/20/2008, -1/+17man, dandelions are really good. They're kind of bitter at first, but then you get used to them. It's just like spinach....but bitter :)
- Zanarkand, on 04/20/2008, -5/+21hmmm, so if my student loan bank goes under do I stop sending checks???
- merreborn, on 04/21/2008, -1/+16I worked for a guy who had the "there are no "qualified American applicants"" problem. Of course, the reason he couldn't find qualified domestic applicants was he was offering well under half the median salary for programmers.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -1/+16nope - the debt will be bought by someone else
- superdog87, on 04/20/2008, -3/+18This is not good... I sure hope this problem clears up some before I need a student loan.
- MrWhite7, on 04/21/2008, -2/+17I'll actually blame the leadership of those responsible, and it ain't just the white house or on the hill either.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -8/+23What is so "conspiratorial" about people with wealth and power wanting _more_ wealth and power?
- rocke86, on 04/21/2008, -0/+14nothing if you go to the bank anyway.
- loggia, on 04/20/2008, -2/+15Heh. Heh. What? You can get videos at the library for free? Heh, heh. Didn't know that. That's good. That's good. They even have Dr. Doolittle there, I hear. That's a funny movie. The animals. They talk to each other. Uh, we don't torture. Next question.
- redfox2600, on 04/20/2008, -0/+13If I was you i would forward the bill to the government and fine them for the hassle.
- Fafnir43, on 04/21/2008, -2/+15Somehow, I suspect if you're working two jobs you won't have that much /time/ for creature comforts. Unless you consider things like healthy food and electricity creature comforts.
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