Twixt Boy is anti affirmative action

[thundley4]

TwixVoy   (1000+ posts)             Sun Oct-11-09 08:01 PM
Original message
Student loan debt will be a major issue in the coming years
   

 
Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:58 PM by TwixVoy
I believe that student loan debt is going to become a major issue in the coming years.

A very large number of students are getting tens of thousands (or even more) in debt in the form of student loans. The belief that college (specifically the earning of a bachelors degree) is for everyone that so many seem to hold is going to backfire on a large number of these people who should have been focusing on technical schools or learning a trade. The fact is many students in college have no place being there these days. These are the ones who even in a good economy would not be able to pay off the debt.
blah, blah, blah...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6754526

juno jones   (1000+ posts)             Sun Oct-11-09 08:23 PM
Response to Reply #1
7. Yup. My DH is in that position.
   
Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:26 PM by juno jones
Got his AA in graphic arts in the big bay area dot com boom. He used his degree primarily as an adjunct of his own buisness (silkscreening). He found out later when he tried to use it to get a job that it was virually useless. The school went under following some lawsuits and graphics jobs are on their way over to china and india with everything else.

The 12,000 education has become a 30,000 bill that we will probably never be able to pay off. It is why we we are unliekly to ever get married in a legal sense.

Selatius (1000+ posts)           Sun Oct-11-09 08:15 PM
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3. On a macroeconomic level, high student loan debt saps consumer buying power.
   
Money that could be going towards pushing up demand for products and services (which is a driving force for job creation and higher wages) is now being funneled into the banks in the financial services sector. Given what has been happening over the last several decades as far as deregulation goes in the financial services sector, I would rather make tuition at universities subsidized by taxpayer dollars.

There is less risk of damage to the whole economy if we did this compared to trusting what the banks say.

Um, yeah it's the EVIL BANKS that are making all the money. Oh wait, they are earning interest on the loans, and usually a low federal rate. It's the universities and colleges making the big bucks.

TwixVoy   (1000+ posts)             Sun Oct-11-09 08:32 PM
Response to Reply #3
11. I would never support tax payer dollars going to college
   
Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:32 PM by TwixVoy
UNLESS we changed from the "everyone gets in" policy.... AND we got rid of bogus degrees.

AND we cut college costs to reasonable levels.

Well, that's not very progressive minded of you. Without those bogus degrees, very few DUmmies could go to college.

Selatius (1000+ posts)           Sun Oct-11-09 08:58 PM
Response to Reply #11
22. I agree. Admissions requirements need to be strict. For everyone else, there's trade school.
   
I believe that college isn't for everybody. On the other hand, it's good to pick up a trade if college isn't for you. I've never met an electrician or an AC repairman or an auto mechanic who was short on cash, but I think the Great Recession is having a toll on them as well.

Doing away with Affirmative Action would be a good start on that wouldn't it?

[Alpha Mare]

These DUmmies didn't make the cut.

[JohnnyReb]

The DUmmie has a point....I see uneducated black women sitting along side US17 in SC that make lot better baskets than college educated DUmmies.

[Karin]

WTF?  Twix candy bar is making some sense today.  Especially about the bogus degrees.  And, let's face it, some people don't belong there.  They can't even write a simple essay, let alone a term paper.  College-level math and science are beyond them.  Their talents just lie elsewhere, that's all. 

[The Village Idiot]

WTF?  Twix candy bar is making some sense today.  Especially about the bogus degrees.  And, let's face it, some people don't belong there.  They can't even write a simple essay, let alone a term paper.  College-level math and science are beyond them.  Their talents just lie elsewhere, that's all. 

One of my classes at the online University of P.... is about essay writing... I'd be doing better if I didn't totally miss an assignment the other day.

[Vagabond]

I just started back to college after a thirteen year layoff.  I'm taking a Calculus class online, because just any class wouldn't be hard enough to restart on.

[The Village Idiot]

I just started back to college after a thirteen year layoff.  I'm taking a Calculus class online, because just any class wouldn't be hard enough to restart on.

dude I can barely add. =o)

[Tantal]

Womyns Studies and African American Studies need to be cut immediately. Their whole purpose is to perpetuate the victim mentality. No wonder they're chock-full-o-DUmmies.