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Old 03-21-2012, 6:06am   #1
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Dig this bullshit, there is about a trillion bux of student loans, backed by the feds, loans for all the bullshit colleges teaching basketweaving and other important technical skills, like political science and english and philosophy and music and of course ART......


but there is this bill/petition/action that should be modified that only those with hard science and technical, business type education should be forgiven, those with useless degrees need to pay up for their stupidity.....

I noted a sign on petition on my kid's face book page, they are seriously down on their student loans with useless degrees and underpaid jobs as a result....it would help them, but I feel signing the petition just aids the rip off colleges and 'educational' outfits into teaching more stupid useless shit, at taxpayer's expense....I bet this does go through, thereby ensuring all the kids vote for nobam this election....

I figger it for passing anyway, but will not sign on for it....

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Old 03-21-2012, 9:39am   #2
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I don't talk to many philosophy majors, but when I do, I ask for the super sized fries.
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I don't talk to many philosophy majors, but when I do, I ask for the super sized fries.
Yeah.


I'm just going to go ahead and give you the clap.



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I don't talk to many philosophy majors, but when I do, I ask for the super sized fries.
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I have a friend with an English degree with a minor in philosophy and he doesn't work in a fast food restaurant. He's a logger.
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I don't talk to many philosophy majors, but when I do, I ask for the super sized fries.
They make a good latte, too.
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I paid back my significant student loans. Every penny.

Sorry you picked the wrong major. Life is not fair.
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I paid back my significant student loans. Every penny.

Sorry you picked the wrong major. Life is not fair.
Maybe Life isn't fair...but being unable to pay back student loans for a non-paying degree seems pretty fair to me.
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My son has student loans, in addition to what we paid, and a Mechanical Engineering degree and a job that is paying nicely. He makes his loan payments on time. It sure would be nice if his loans and the loans of his friends that graduated with ME degrees would be forgiven.
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A lot of people go to those schools to avoid working. If they wanted to work many of them wouldn't need a loan. Why change after they get a degree?

I began working for cash at the age of 12 and entered the military a week after my 17th birthday during the Vietnam war. That didn't stop me from getting a degree and I didn't need a loan. My higher education was paid for by the government however as compensation for my service
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My son went to a community college so the cost was much cheaper than other institutes. He paid off his loan promptly as it was installed in him that a debt is always repaid.

He took machining and computer sciences and after working a couple years at a other machine shop he quit and is now the programmer and Forman of all vertical milling machines at his present employment (CNCs around 10 if I remember right) He now has about 18 people and many millions of dollars in machines to oversee. He is well compensated!
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My ex-wife has the weirdest degree I ever heard of. It's a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts which was granted by Regents University which is part of the State University of New York System (SUNY).

However, she immediately put it to use at Ft Huachuca where she was the contractor branch chief on Link 16 testing and is now the chief of software testing for Raytheon in Tucson, AZ.
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I'm not particularly critical about the type of degree people want or have.

Regardless of the field of study school does a good job of documenting a persons capacity for learning, perseverence, and dedication to a goal... I was a student for 8 years, even took classes most Summers. Never dropped a class, never failed a class, never late, absent, or disciplined. In that sense any degree is useful to an employer as an indication of what they can expect from a person they hire.

My youngest recently started taking classes at the age of 24. I was just glad he finally devloped an interest in learning. He'd been going half a semester before I even asked him what it was for... Was waiting to see if he was for real or one of those jerk-offs that sign up for classes only to drop them after the first week
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What people fail to realize is that due to the government subsidizing student loans it has driven up the costs of education.

If you want a loan get one from your local bank based on either assets or other criteria. Or better yet get a job and work your way through college.

It took my 5 1/2 years to get my degree and I worked 50 plus hours a week to get through. Many companies did offer student support programs so you could work and get tuition assistance.

There should be NO government supported student loans other than the GI bill type or for government workers as a benefit.
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