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Posted on 05/02/2013 6:10:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As college tuition keeps rising, so does student debt.
Asked about ways to make higher education more affordable, 59 percent of Americans “strongly agreed” that colleges and universities should reduce tuition and fees, and 46 percent said companies should provide more assistance to their employees.
Forty percent said the federal government should provide more assistance, 38 percent said state governments should provide more, and 38 percent said community-based scholarship organizations should provide more assistance. …
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If a company has an employee that they value and would like them to have additional education, they should pay for it.
None of this you go, pay and we will reimburse you stuff.
Perfectly reasonable. How about a membership to a gun club or range? As far as I am concerned, that should also be our employers responsibility.
My employer actually PAID FOR my kids going to college - try to beat that.
They gave me a bunch of money every week and I put some of it into saving for college. So I am forever thankful to them.
So, it took me over a decade, but I paid my student loan. Should I now demand that someone pay me for what I paid off? Unfortunately, I fit into one of the few categories that can never be a victim: lily white, caucasian, Irish Catholic. Even though my father remembered signs such as “No Dogs or Irish Allowed” Today I am vilified as the root of all evil. I do not desire any ‘reparations’ for all the racism & bigotry heaped upon my ancestors. I just pray and work hard to bring about Reverend King’s dream. The sooner we rid ourselves of Obambi and all his ilk, the better.
Military training issues aside, the states have never delegated to the feds via the Constitution the specific power to tax and spend for educational purposes. In fact, students would have more money to spend for tuition if they exercised their voting muscle to stop the feds from stealing money from them through constitutonally indefensible federal taxes. But how would students know this since the schools evidently aren’t teaching about Congress’s constitutionally limited powers despite rising tuition costs?
I want a pony.
Let’s face it. The 46% want gubmint to wipe their backsides for them.
My first degree was paid for by my employer.
He received an employee with a degree in mathematics and a large tax write-off. We both benefited.
After a few years of hard—hard—work, I got the opportunity to advance from an $8/hour bottle-washing job to a sales position paying six digits. The door would not have opened without the college degree.
Scary, what that book-learnin’ will do, isn’t it?
I want my flying car!
So, let me get this straight.
If I go get a high quality education that cost a fortune
this will help me get job, because there will not be anyone who will do the job without demanding that the employer pay for their education.
The one single greatest thing that Americans can do to reduce future increases in college education is to remove Obama from office and clean house on liberals.
[[Gallup Poll: Americans Want Employers to Help Pay Their Tuition]]
Next poll “Americans want ot sit on their ##@@#$ and let govenrment pay for everything somhow- they don’t care how as long as it doesn’t coem out of their welfare checks”
My employer paid 100% of my tuition for my 2 graduate degrees
The problem is, after 5,200 dollars in “tuition assitance” from an employer, the government takes 40% of it’
Thusly, after 5,200 dollars of yearly assistance, I only got 60% of my costs covered
I, too, worked for a company a long time ago that provided tuition assistance. Had several stipulations. Degreed classes only pertaining to your job - if you were an accountant, you had to take accounting classes, etc. - maximum of 6 hours per semester, 3.0 minimum grade. Had to turn in certified proof of grade and completion and then you were reimbursed at the end of the semester.
I worked in the Operations Department and decided to get an Electrical Engineering degree. Could only take 3 hours a semester because I also had two babies, a husband and did work full-time. Took me forever to finish the two year course, three hours at a time, but I finally made it. Funny thing was that supplies, fees and books cost more than the tuition. But even back then every little bit helped. Plus when I finished I got a promotion and a salary increase.
I have offered that to some of my employees now but unfortunately have had no takers. They just want to live for now and aren’t willing to do what it takes to invest in the future.
And I’d like my employer to help pay also for my house, food, two automobiles, and at least three vacations each year - and oh yes, a new riding lawnmower that I want to buy - when’s the government going to make him do it?????......
To heck with free college, I want my employer to buy me a yacht and a mansion. And a pony.
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