A couple of Republican senators have finally figured out how to reduce the cost of higher education: Yell at college students who keep blowing their student loan money on nice things that they do not deserve. Like weed and porn, probably. At a March meeting with constituents in Wisconsin, Sen. Ron Johnson explained that college costs are mostly going up because student loans are plentiful, and students are
I'm afraid Sen Johnson studied budgetary economics at the George W. Bush's school of "put an entire fucking war 'off budget' and then you'll never have to pay for it". No college kids get that particular option.
The solution to increased college spending is before their very eyes: adopt the same rules states are adopting for welfare recipients. No theater tickets or concerts and swimming. No steak or lobster. Drug tests should be mandatory and no liquor or cigarettes. No wireless devices. College enrollment would drop to zero except in those nice Christian colleges. Problem solved. Of course, funding for the national guard might show and increase, but that's all for freedom. Average time spent in college would drop to an hour and a half. Problem solved.
To be fair to your little friend, mortgages are vastly cheaper than rents these days. Of course, you've got that 20% down payment problem up front, but compared to renting, home ownership is a walk in the park once you swing that note.
When reading Johnson's quote, my reaction was "Jesus H. Crispness on a pogo stick, they're going to start declaring student loans are welfare." Then I broke my foot kicking it through a brick wall. Butt! It was all for naught because then I read the first sentence leading into Blunt's part, I was overcome by relief. "Whew," said I, as my foot magically healed itself. "This is all just another push for for-profit schools." All the bricks are back in place, Jesus traded his pogo stick for an AK-47, and all was right in the wealthiest broke nation on earth.
Yes - but....In Richmond, $800 is sufficient to get you a very (very) nice one bedroom with 500 square feet, and there is no shortage of these down where the campus is.
Abortions and beer are more expensive now than when he and I went to college. Professors earn a living wage. I thought these people liked the free market that took the cost of my four year college education from $10,000, including room, board and booze, to $15,000 per semester for tuition only. Sounds like Hussein Obama may have difficulty getting Congress to enact his proposal of a free 2 year community college education by voice vote.
I graduated from college in the 90s and then law school 6 years later after a period in between working for government and banks. The huge law school loans ate about 40% of my income from the job I ended up taking, so I briefly looked into going back to college to get a masters in psychology at night. I like school and really could have used the psychology training in my work, but an added benefit would have been a few years of loan payments being on hiatus. Eight years after graduating, tuition was already 3 times what it had been when I got my initial degrees, which killed that idea.
Though yes, I did spend some of my student loan money on beer and porn, so it is my fault education is unaffordable now.
"At least he refrained from reminiscing about the good old days when he kept his LP’s in a milk crate that he’d grabbed from behind the grocery store, and made a dorm bookcase out of cinder blocks and boards that he’d stolen from a construction site, the way you’re supposed to in college."
I can see academia from my house.
I'm afraid Sen Johnson studied budgetary economics at the George W. Bush's school of "put an entire fucking war 'off budget' and then you'll never have to pay for it". No college kids get that particular option.
"All three of my kids went to Madison and I guarantee you, they had a really good time, particularly that first year of college,” he said.
So in other words, he's just pissed that he shelled out a bunch of money for his kids to behave like filthy hippies.
The water didn't have all those healthy fracking chemicals in it.
You had clay tablets? Luxury.
Fascist!
The solution to increased college spending is before their very eyes: adopt the same rules states are adopting for welfare recipients. No theater tickets or concerts and swimming. No steak or lobster. Drug tests should be mandatory and no liquor or cigarettes. No wireless devices. College enrollment would drop to zero except in those nice Christian colleges. Problem solved. Of course, funding for the national guard might show and increase, but that's all for freedom. Average time spent in college would drop to an hour and a half. Problem solved.
To be fair to your little friend, mortgages are vastly cheaper than rents these days. Of course, you've got that 20% down payment problem up front, but compared to renting, home ownership is a walk in the park once you swing that note.
When reading Johnson's quote, my reaction was "Jesus H. Crispness on a pogo stick, they're going to start declaring student loans are welfare." Then I broke my foot kicking it through a brick wall. Butt! It was all for naught because then I read the first sentence leading into Blunt's part, I was overcome by relief. "Whew," said I, as my foot magically healed itself. "This is all just another push for for-profit schools." All the bricks are back in place, Jesus traded his pogo stick for an AK-47, and all was right in the wealthiest broke nation on earth.
Damn kids were probably engaging in orgies in the showers. Dirty hippies!
Yes - but....In Richmond, $800 is sufficient to get you a very (very) nice one bedroom with 500 square feet, and there is no shortage of these down where the campus is.
I had to make my own books out of feral cats and bong water. And I know what you're thinking, but it's okay. No bongs were harmed.
Abortions and beer are more expensive now than when he and I went to college. Professors earn a living wage. I thought these people liked the free market that took the cost of my four year college education from $10,000, including room, board and booze, to $15,000 per semester for tuition only. Sounds like Hussein Obama may have difficulty getting Congress to enact his proposal of a free 2 year community college education by voice vote.
In the rich (by which I mean cheap, vulgar, nasty) tradition of Rick Scott ridiculing his own daughter's college major:
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I graduated from college in the 90s and then law school 6 years later after a period in between working for government and banks. The huge law school loans ate about 40% of my income from the job I ended up taking, so I briefly looked into going back to college to get a masters in psychology at night. I like school and really could have used the psychology training in my work, but an added benefit would have been a few years of loan payments being on hiatus. Eight years after graduating, tuition was already 3 times what it had been when I got my initial degrees, which killed that idea.
Though yes, I did spend some of my student loan money on beer and porn, so it is my fault education is unaffordable now.
"At least he refrained from reminiscing about the good old days when he kept his LP’s in a milk crate that he’d grabbed from behind the grocery store, and made a dorm bookcase out of cinder blocks and boards that he’d stolen from a construction site, the way you’re supposed to in college."
ouch