Originally posted by TheWayISeeIt


Buh-bye Middle Class, hello dumbed down manual labor America. ... or .. "Americans the new Mexicans" How do you like that? Because that's exactly what this report is stating.

This is outrageous! How does this happen? How does the cost of higher ed increase over 300+% to family income? Why are you people with children not in the streets demanding a Federal Law that keeps colleges in line with cost of living?!

This is much more important to the security of this nation than the wasted TRILLIONS thrown at the make-believe War on Terror. Wake-up! Act up! This is insanity.

I have one question for you?

Who is in charge of all the colleges and universities across the country?

College has NEVER been affordabe by most in the US.

No doubt the cost of college education has risen above the cost of living curve. And its harder these days to save for college given the incrase of daily living expenses prevent that much more from being saved for a college education.

So many have to resort to grants. But when those grants and savings are spent elsewhere into things that have nothing to do with the college education, then it is not a national problem, it is a personal priorities problem. Bad decisions made by those who should not be in control of said finances when its intended for school.

These universities also know this, and also know most of their tuitions are paid via grants, or extended loans carried out over several years. It amazes me too that so many graduates going out into the real world find themsevles strapped for funds, working multiple odd jobs just to try to repay those grants and loans, ending up having that fancy vehicle repo'ed and winding up on a bycicle or on foot, living in a shared apartment with 4 other kids in the same situation when the apartment is meant for 2 or even 1, and are about to be evicted becasue of all the beer binge parties and noise.

I think a dose of responsibility is needed to be taught before the college years. Perhaps with that and some personal priority initiative things might not be so bad off. Alot of those loans and grants end up going unpaid and those costs have to be absorbed somewhere, raising the price of tuitions and materials.

Like links in a chain, once a single link breaks..the chain is useless.

I do have some sympathy for those youngsters going through so much hell these days. But when I see some smack pulling up next to me in their 80 grand SUV with a college parking tag hanging from the rear view mirror, blasting away with the street rap subwoofer and then read about high cost of education, I tend to begin to lean the other way to the scale of BS.



Cheers!!!!

Originally posted by nyk537


This government has lost the benefit of the doubt.

What exactly has government controlled that has been successful?

The government has been very successful at bending over the tax payer and screwing him/her.

It has already happened.

I would love to finsish school but I couldn't come up with the 900 bucks that they wanted for ONE class.

My state gets a D- for affordibility. I know someone who worked for the system, and a lot of it is wasted on Dean's giving their dumb mistresse's 75k jobs and buying all their families the latest and greatest computers every year.

There is a lot of wasteful spending that goes on. And we pay for it.

seems to be a theme lately......

Glad I'm eligible for complete financial aid. I love it that because I'm poor the government will pay the full tuition and then some.