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[BananaStand]

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

Fine, I'll choose one of the hundreds of schools that are NOT prohibitively expensive.

In Spain,......

Ugh....I gotta be honest man, I am so friggen tired about hearing what a utopia Europe is. It's not.

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?

How is it that you can keep using NYU as an example, but my Cadillac analogy is a "problem"?

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.

Im not sure I follow this analogy but it seems like you're just reiterating your previous point that if we cut military spending, we could subsidize college. Again....that's ALREADY HAPPENING. Military spending has increased 1.8 times since 1960. Legislative appropriations for higher education has increase 10x. Also....within that military spending you seem to despise so much is over half a billion dollars of tuition assistance.

You can strip ice cream from your diet without it having any negative effect on your life whatsoever

Tell that to all the Northrup Grumman, DRS, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, employees who lost their job after the Sequestration spending cuts.

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

Yes, they are.

[Jack Sawyer]

Fine, I'll choose one of the hundreds of schools that are NOT prohibitively expensive.




Ugh....I gotta be honest man, I am so friggen tired about hearing what a utopia Europe is. It's not.




How is it that you can keep using NYU as an example, but my Cadillac analogy is a "problem"?

Purposefully dense, I see

Im not sure I follow this analogy but it seems like you're just reiterating your previous point that if we cut military spending, we could subsidize college. Again....that's ALREADY HAPPENING. Military spending has increased 1.8 times since 1960. Legislative appropriations for higher education has increase 10x. Also....within that military spending you seem to despise so much is over half a billion dollars of tuition assistance.

Not nearly enough to make any positive change whatsoever

Tell that to all the Northrup Grumman, DRS, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, employees who lost their job after the Sequestration spending cuts.

Cry me a river

Yes, they are.

Where/how did you get this information? And please, don’t tell me you got it from some Fox News segment.

[BananaStand]

Purposefully dense, I see

Personal attacks are really not helping this discussion.

Not nearly enough to make any positive change whatsoever

So how much would be enough? We've thrown TONS of money at the problem and, according to you, nothing's changed. What do you call it when you do the same thing repeatedly but expect different results??

Cry me a river

You just got through saying that cutting our ice cream budget wouldn't hurt one bit. I just explained to you how all of the ice cream producers, which represent a massive section of the economy, are out of a job. Unemployment hurts the economy. Just because YOU personally, don't see a need for ice cream, doesn't mean that you're right.

Where/how did you get this information? And please, don’t tell me you got it from some Fox News segment.

First of all, I've cited way more sources here than fox news. And I'm not going to let you disqualify them because they rarely align with your viewpoint. They're #1, so they're doing something right. But to make it go down easier....here's the answer from your liberal socialist bible...the NY Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/o...s-so-much.html

The bit about massive increases in administrators, not faculty, spending is alarming. Going back to my GM example. Let's say we gave GM money so that they could subsidize $10,000 of a car, and thus poor people could afford to buy one. Now suppose instead GM just jacked up the price of every car by $10,000 and pocketed the extra profits. That would be scandalous!! Yet you want the government to do the exact same thing with education, and you call it effective government spending.

[Poopadoop]

Personal attacks are really not helping this discussion.

But to make it go down easier....here's the answer from your liberal socialist bible...the NY Times.

It's funny how you forgot how you started the post by the time you got to your last point.

[BananaStand]

It's funny how you forgot how you started the post by the time you got to your last point.

I know....I'm fucking hilarious.