CoinBlazers Opinions on random political matters.

Who, exactly, should be ashamed of their myopia FD? . . . https://qz.com/812200/is-free-colle...-there-are-downsides-to-tuition-free-college/

 

This is the usual response from those that never earned an education. Now they resent those people that did. It's an old story.

 

That's funny Joe . . . the usual response from someone that never earned an education . . . ahh, but I did!

I earned a 5 year engineering degree with with my parents paying for my room & board and kicking in $1000 toward my first year tuition. The rest of the tuition was on me. Five years worth!

Coupled with some year 1 scholarships from high school, lots of time and effort earned me an athletic scholarship in year 2 that served me very well the next few years, augmented by part-time jobs and yes, student loans, which I paid off on-time.

So quit looking down your long liberal nose at folks who didn't go to college, and have a reasoned discussion with me about this.

Whatever you do, don't change the subject . . . I'm getting really tired of that.

 

Who is looking down on people that did go to college here???

....anyone who wanted to go to school, so that colleges and universities could soak up all that extra money with higher prices, build all of those fancy dorms, cafeterias and fitness centers to make them even more appealing to kids who might have been better served in trade schools or in apprenticeship programs. Now so many of them have utterly useless degrees, no experience, no career prospects, and are saddled with student loan debt that they want working taxpayers to pay off for them.

 

Now this is truly one of the more absurd things I have seen you post in this forum. Most of us uneducated folks are quite proud of those that persevered through it. You are speaking out your arse now.

 

There are many, many young people in this country that fit toughcoin’s description. One of my wife’s sisters falls into that category and my wife co-signed on her loan. She majored in Shakespeare abroad and she couldn’t understand why there wasn’t a huge demand for that when she got out of school. What became of her degree? Well, my wife has not so great credit now for it.

I will say, though, some actually know fully well that they have a useless piece of paper on the wall and are still working to pay off their own debt.

 

I was looking down on the liberal premise that it's a good thing to lend tons of money to anybody that wanted a college education, regardless of the prospects for making a living with it, let alone being able to repay the loan.

I was most certainly not looking down on people that went to college.

 

Only stupid people believe college is free.

In fact, only stupid people believe anything is truly free.

There is a cost to everything, what ever form it make take . . . taxes, indebtedness, goodwill, pangs of guilt, etc . . .

Absent tangible compensation, there is always the intangible.

 

Aww, you miss him. Why else res a nearly half a decade old thread?

 

I was getting tired of picking on you alone, so I looked up an old post of his . . . You should be thankful.

Miss him? . . . You mean like missing the toilet bowl?

Okay, I admit that was nasty . . . but I did it fer @charley . . . I gotta get in my daily accolades.