**** Elections thread *****

[Jack Sawyer]

You are definitely trolling. I’ll bite one last time.

A K-12 education is sufficient to gain employment. Certainly employment that is lucrative enough to pay a college tuition.




OMG, just stop. Was spending on military deployment in the last decade higher or lower than in the previous decade?




First of all...NYU is a private institution. They charge what they charge. I don't know why you're focused on that one particular school so much. There are other schools that cost less than $70k. SUNY costs $6,500/yr!!!


Also...I don't get what you're complaining about anyway. There are public universities, where the government subsidizes the cost. So you've gotten your way. What's your problem? In state tuition at UMASS is only $15K, and that's a fine institution. Jack Welch went there, and he turned out ok. And there are LOTS of state-run schools that cost nearly half that.

And Harvard Law costs $90,000 a year. NYU is just an example. Take your pick.


In Spain, actual tuition for EU residents is 0€. The Uni’s are excellent. And in Germany. Obviously you would still have to work, but to cover your own cost of living. Which would mean you have to work less, leaving more quality time between you and your books. Seems possible …

How is your suggestion any different from say, the government giving GM money to make it so Cadillacs are affordable for everybody. Why can't some people just drive an Impala?




You're not seeing the forest here. College costs are out of control BECAUSE of gov't intervention.

Well, the fact that we are comparing Cadillacs is the problem. If all the schools are Cadillacs, ergo of proper yet homogeneous quality, what would be your problem then?

Dude....NYU, and places like it, ARE businesses. And what economics book are you reading that says competition increases prices??

Treating them like businesses is the problem. Businesses go for profit. Had you had the opportunity to check out the video I posted, you would have seen what I was talking about.

Does not compute. If the money involved is all the same.....how are you gonna make NYU cheaper?

Pretty simple, and I’m frankly amazed that you can’t see it. If you are buying ice cream, and you have a budget for ice cream purchasing, and you also have to buy health food, common sense would indicate that the budget for health food should be bigger than your budget of ice cream if you want to live a healthy life. Now, if you have allotted $200 total for both budgets, it stands to reason that you should not spend like $180 on ice cream and $20 on healthy foods, but rather something like $20 on ice cream since you looooove ice cream so much, and $180 on healthy foods.


You can strip ice cream from your diet without it having any negative effect on your life whatsoever. Conversely, it will have positive effects on your life (and this of your loved ones, DUCY) if you eat less ice cream.

The government doled out cash in the form of student loans. That cash wasn't diverted from other things, it was just put into the system. That's what I call 'printing money'. And I'm not watching the video because I don't have audio on my office PC. Also, I'm not really thrilled about getting my economics lessons from 20 something youtubers. Maybe find somebody with a collared shirt, they'll have more credibility.

20-somethings that know a thing or two more about specific stuff than you or I do. Plus, calling Hank Green a 20-something is flattery to him, I’m sure.


But I won’t force you to watch anything, of course.

If you're suggesting that the government inserting tons of money into the economy doesn't result in inflation, and thus doesn't result in higher prices.....I guess enjoy your video.

The government isn’t making money to give out to students as student loans.

What does it cost NYU to educate a kid for a year? If it's say, $65K and they charge $70K, I'd say that you're right. But the cost is a zillion times less than $65K. Tell me, what's NYU doing that costs so much more than UMASS? Are teachers really making 5x as much? Does electricity in New York cost 5x as much as electricity in Boston? There's no way that the costs of educating are so disparate so as to justify the variance in tuition. Clearly these schools are not competing.

You would have had more of an answer on this had you watched the video I posted.

Your definition of trolling is completely warped

Not at all/