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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 04:48 PM Original message |
College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. "May become"?? |
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demmiblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. That was my first response! |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 10:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. me too! |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. That's what I was going to say |
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Fed_Up_Grammy (923 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Your generation had it a heck of a lot easier than my generation, |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. It made me sad to think that in one generation, "it all went away" |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. You beat me to it |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. That means school admins will have to take a pay cut. Will that happen? |
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demmiblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Ummm... |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. Higher education is highly inefficient |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. The purpose of higher education is NOT simply job training. You, and most Americans seem |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 06:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. If the purpose isn't preparation for a career, then unaffordability becomes a moot point |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Not a "luxury consumable" either. |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 09:23 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Becoming a "rounded person" is like buying fine clothes or jewelry -- it is a consumable |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:32 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. We have a Yale graduate, Harvard MBA in the White House. Hardly B-schools. |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 01:53 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Mr. Bush's MBA is from a B-School, Harvard Business School |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 07:09 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Income POTENTIAL over the course of a lifetime between a |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 09:15 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Most of the income POTENTIAL differnce is due to the entrance selection process |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. It hasn't been affordable for a long time, but there was credit so it was managable |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
7. The problem is the easy credit made available to College Students... |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's working according to plan.... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 07:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Also the perfect storm for ahem... revolution |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:02 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. I dunno... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
10. Even with military incentives? n/t |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. Our higher education system is broken and some states are worse than others. There is no simple, |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
21. Thank the Deity my kids' father is a college professor. |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
23. you could always learn a trade skill... |
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Irish Girl (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
28. Heartbreaking.. |
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