the world needs bartenders tooo... and they'll prolly have a leg up on all the Whatever Studies graduates that can't find a job since they won't have a bad attitude about not finding a job in a useless degree field!!!
Posted on 01/07/2012 4:57:37 AM PST by floridarunner01
Most Americans still believe any good student can find a way to get into college, and if a student is accepted at a college but can't afford it, a sizable number of adults think the government should pay for it.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults finds that 60% of adults believe that just about any good student who wants to attend college can find a way to do so in America today. That’s up from 54% in early May 2009. Twenty-nine percent (29%) don’t believe this to be true, while 11% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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If a war broke out tomorrow and we had to draft today’s young people to fight I doubt we could get a good regiment together.
We would have more people running down the draft dodgers than we could put in the field.
Just an opinion, but it’s mine.
A Big Part of the educational process of going to college is figuring how to pay for it...certainly anyone working summers and part time to contribute to its cost has a greater appreciation for the education,will work harder to complete it, and and pride in having earned it both financially and educationally.
” It took me 7 years to get a BS in Marketing Management. That was 7 years of hell with classes 4 nights a week and most of Saturday. I was carrying an average of 20 credits a semester.”
That’s 40 credits a year for 7 years or about 280 credits. That is two and a half BS degrees. I suggest that you may have gotten your numbers wrong.
In any case, I went to college on the GI bill during the 1970’s. I still had to work full-time to eat and have shelter, but most of my tuition was covered. I had no debt upon graduation. I also had several years of military and management experience.
Why do you say minorities and women basically are having the state take the SAT for them? I’m not familiar with those programs.
It seems to me most college educations are useless...a degree in garbage gets you no job...better to go to a community college and get an education in something that will get you a job, like heating and cooling...furnace’s always need repair, a never ending supply of jobs available. I am using this just as an example...a 4 year degree in womens studies may be fun, but who the heck needs you after your degree.. You can get a job at Mcdonalds with those types of degree’s...money wasted.
>>Why do you say minorities and women basically are having the state take the SAT for them? I’m not familiar with those programs.<<
The thumbs on the scales for womyn and minorities is so heavy in terms of measuring SAT scores for admission they (womyn/minorities) practically don’t have to take them.
American university students are the new share-croppers in our country. Borrow $100,000 to pay Big Daddy professor’s salary.
The same 38% who wouldn’t be helping to cover the expense, I bet.
Our nation is doomed. Too many stupid, lazy parasites who vote.
Good bye America. I’m going to miss you!
There is a saying in England, you can always tell the welfare people, because they all have a gleaming, perfect set of teeth.
For everyone now reading the words in this sentence, listen up....some of you will become rich and successful, and some of you may die in poverty and misery; but regardless, it is up to YOU, which you will do.
Several generations beginning with the FDR worshippers look to Washington as the source from whom all blessings flow.
People have long spoke and acted as though our president is a king.
If everyone does it, college becomes 13th through 16th grades,
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Exactly - which puts them in ‘public education’ well into their 20’s, THEN if they go to a 4 or 6 year “Institute of Higher Learning” they are in their 30’s before they have to get a job to support themselves.
I knew way back in the early 50’s College wasn’t even a dream, so I quit HS in Sr year to join Navy (’56).
My youngest informed us that we ‘owed’ her a college education.
I told her to bone up on her Math etc and I would get her into one of the Academies and I got “I Don’t want to go in the Army” - so then just told her “Your mother and I would be more than happy to assist your going to college”. We did, She did....that was late 80’s.
I guess today I would be imprisoned or at least visited by the ‘occupiers’...
1. Finish High School
2. Don’t have children before you are Married.
3. Don’t marry before the age of 24
Notice, college is not one of them. This also is good for all races, nationalities, and backgrounds. Oh college may tweak the percentage up a little, but not significant enough to take out massive loan or to have government pay for.
Not surprising....we’ve now reached a point in this country where nearly as many parasites are living off the Government, and the rest PAY TAXES TO SUPPORT THEM.
Please see post #28.
Yeah,
Like I should have to pay for some pathetic loser to take liberal arts or music classes in college?
I don’t think so.
This same 38% and more will also expect ‘adjustments’ to their grades for their various minority/victim afflictions. I can’t tell you how many grade-inflated victims’ resumes I’ve seen in my career. When you get them in for interviews, they don’t know 1/10th of what they should.
The government workers in the colleges and the regulation enforcement offices need forced clients to pay for their retirements.
BTW,no way am I in favor of government paying for those who can't afford an education (which is the topic). I was just venting about why so many jobs require a college degree anyway. I still say it's a racket between the colleges and the government.
the world needs bartenders tooo... and they'll prolly have a leg up on all the Whatever Studies graduates that can't find a job since they won't have a bad attitude about not finding a job in a useless degree field!!!
It always sounds good out the back it just doesn’t work in practice. I don’t even feel the govt should back a loan unless there are tighter restrictions. Meaning students have to go into a field where the country actually needs workers. No more basket weaving degrees.
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