True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.
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Peace,
emaycee
Showing posts with label College Tuition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College Tuition. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Better at accounting
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Idiot idea #1
In their never ending quest to show just how much they don't care about the American people, the republican party just keeps putting forth bad idea after bad idea. First up--Marco Rubio's economic plan which calls for helping people pay for college by selling themselves to private investors. In a nutshell, students would have their tuition paid for by an investor, who would in turn take a percentage of their pay after college (Rubio calls for 4%) until the debt has been paid.
Leaving aside the fact that the idea reeks of indentured servitude (what is it with conservatives doing all they can to ensure Americans are working in some sort of slavery?), the first major problem I see with it is with extreme conflicts of interest. Can you imagine the potential pitfalls with a pharmaceutical magnate investing in a host of doctors? Wall Street investing in business students conducting research on labor? Please, we working class folks get fucked enough without stacking the deck even further.
The second major problem I see is...how exactly does this help the folks who need it most? It's easy to imagine a host of investors wanting to underwrite Harvard MBA's and Yale law school students and Johns Hopkins medical students, but what about the man or woman going to BFE Tech who wants to be a nurse or an elementary school teacher?
Frankly, this idea floated by Rubio is just another in a long line of republicans puckering their lips for the wealthy elite while simultaneously trying to boot the rest of us in our collective asses.
Peace,
emaycee
Leaving aside the fact that the idea reeks of indentured servitude (what is it with conservatives doing all they can to ensure Americans are working in some sort of slavery?), the first major problem I see with it is with extreme conflicts of interest. Can you imagine the potential pitfalls with a pharmaceutical magnate investing in a host of doctors? Wall Street investing in business students conducting research on labor? Please, we working class folks get fucked enough without stacking the deck even further.
The second major problem I see is...how exactly does this help the folks who need it most? It's easy to imagine a host of investors wanting to underwrite Harvard MBA's and Yale law school students and Johns Hopkins medical students, but what about the man or woman going to BFE Tech who wants to be a nurse or an elementary school teacher?
Frankly, this idea floated by Rubio is just another in a long line of republicans puckering their lips for the wealthy elite while simultaneously trying to boot the rest of us in our collective asses.
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Ring, ring goes the bell
This past week, Germany ended college tuition fees for all its citizens and for international students.
The thing that amazes me the most--and this may be because I'm an American, and as a nation, we're anything but--is how forward thinking this is for a nation (note that the link mentions many other EU nations have done the same). This is a virtual guarantee of a chance at a better future, better life, and a better country for every student in Germany, and without being saddled with the $1.2 trillion of debt that American students are stuck with.
It means more doctors, more lawyers, more teachers, and more consumer spending to make Germany's economy grow faster instead of tons of students loans payments going to Big Banks.
And therein lies the rub--as long as we're beholden to Corporate America and Big Business, the chances of America being anything more than a country of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich are nil.
Pay it forward, indeed.
Peace,
emaycee
The thing that amazes me the most--and this may be because I'm an American, and as a nation, we're anything but--is how forward thinking this is for a nation (note that the link mentions many other EU nations have done the same). This is a virtual guarantee of a chance at a better future, better life, and a better country for every student in Germany, and without being saddled with the $1.2 trillion of debt that American students are stuck with.
It means more doctors, more lawyers, more teachers, and more consumer spending to make Germany's economy grow faster instead of tons of students loans payments going to Big Banks.
And therein lies the rub--as long as we're beholden to Corporate America and Big Business, the chances of America being anything more than a country of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich are nil.
Pay it forward, indeed.
Peace,
emaycee
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