And once again, just like with Obamacare, Republicans, including supposedly 'awake' patriots, are screaming about muh handouts instead of talking about the underlying issue that's giving this legs.
Make the schools themselves accountable for producing capable students, and the issue will go away. Right now, schools get money and don't actually have to provide anything for it. These loans should have always been merit based anyway. If grades fall below a certain point, loan money stopped.
I agree completely about that underlying issues need to be addressed.
The idea that everyone should get a college degree these past several decades really screwed us over in the long run. It eventually made a college degree pretty useless in itself. I think a college degree today is worth what a high school diploma was in the 50s and 60s. Back then a man could get a good job with just a HS diploma and support himself and a family in a fairly comfortable fashion.
Today you need a college degree to get pretty much any non-labor or menial job. Just a basic front desk job where the hardest thing you do is file paperwork and answer the phone requires a damn 4 year degree these days. It's ridiculous beyond belief.
People looking down their noses at trade crafts has also been a factor. Why plumbers and mechanics and electricians and welders and such have been so belittled as careers is beyond me. All I can figure is that snobbery won out over common sense.
Anyway, all of that is just my opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions. 😁
The loans should not exist. There are no handouts, it is Republicans paying for Republicans to go to college, and Republicans also paying for Democrats to go to college. There is no metric for 'merit' and if there was, they would say it's with the evil graduates of Harvard and shit. The process is to steal money at gunpoint from productive people and then give it to idiots who will vote like idiots; it should be eradicated completely. By the way, if these loans didn't exist, there would be NO NEED for them. College is expensive because stupid people are willing to pay ridiculous prices because it's 'later money' or 'gonna be forgiven'. If loans ended, colleges would simply lose attendance until their prices became reasonable.
And once again, just like with Obamacare, Republicans, including supposedly 'awake' patriots, are screaming about muh handouts instead of talking about the underlying issue that's giving this legs.
Make the schools themselves accountable for producing capable students, and the issue will go away. Right now, schools get money and don't actually have to provide anything for it. These loans should have always been merit based anyway. If grades fall below a certain point, loan money stopped.
I agree completely about that underlying issues need to be addressed.
The idea that everyone should get a college degree these past several decades really screwed us over in the long run. It eventually made a college degree pretty useless in itself. I think a college degree today is worth what a high school diploma was in the 50s and 60s. Back then a man could get a good job with just a HS diploma and support himself and a family in a fairly comfortable fashion.
Today you need a college degree to get pretty much any non-labor or menial job. Just a basic front desk job where the hardest thing you do is file paperwork and answer the phone requires a damn 4 year degree these days. It's ridiculous beyond belief.
People looking down their noses at trade crafts has also been a factor. Why plumbers and mechanics and electricians and welders and such have been so belittled as careers is beyond me. All I can figure is that snobbery won out over common sense.
Anyway, all of that is just my opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions. 😁
The loans should not exist. There are no handouts, it is Republicans paying for Republicans to go to college, and Republicans also paying for Democrats to go to college. There is no metric for 'merit' and if there was, they would say it's with the evil graduates of Harvard and shit. The process is to steal money at gunpoint from productive people and then give it to idiots who will vote like idiots; it should be eradicated completely. By the way, if these loans didn't exist, there would be NO NEED for them. College is expensive because stupid people are willing to pay ridiculous prices because it's 'later money' or 'gonna be forgiven'. If loans ended, colleges would simply lose attendance until their prices became reasonable.