Comments on: 49 States Get F In College Affordability

As Economy Worsens, Only California (Barely) Passes Independent Survey

[rhs648]

The country can talk all it wants about equal opportunity and all it wants about mean big business.
But all the while the academic society is ripping us off with absurd college education costs that only the rich can afford or that mid-incomes have to go broke for - and that minorities can never dream of.
All courtesy of the white, liberal educator elites. --

Posted by kamsack50

Then you must feel ripped off everytime you buy a car, take a vacation, buy a house, or buy a soda. College was never been meant to be an entitlement. There is no legal requirement for people to attend college. In spite of this, state and federal government has been providing lower cost state colleges and community colleges in addition to financial aid such as loans and grants. Add to that affirmative action where minority students get preferential treatment in admissions and lowered tuition and room and board. If you can''t afford the more costly schools, you have the option of state subsidized and community colleges. How much more equality do you want? Should the government help buy you a mercedes when you can only afford a Kia?

[kamsack50]

The country can talk all it wants about equal opportunity and all it wants about mean big business.
But all the while the academic society is ripping us off with absurd college education costs that only the rich can afford or that mid-incomes have to go broke for - and that minorities can never dream of.
All courtesy of the white, liberal educator elites.

[xxunknown]

kuei12: There is public transportation and USED cars available. I went to school on part scholarship. You should check your figures, more than 1/1000 qualify. And you dont need to tell me that the govt is raping me. I believe taxation is illegal as outlined in the constitution. I am pointing out that people live above their means.

[xxunknown]

kuei12: There is public transportation and USED cars available. I went to school on part scholarship. You should check your figures, more than 1/1000 qualify. And you dont need to tell me that the govt is raping me. I believe taxation is illegal as outlined in the constitution. I am pointing out that people live above their means.

[kuei12]

"Why do you need a brand new vehicle every 5 years?"

I don''t if I don''t have a job to drive to.

"There are scholarships available for college."

That''s great if you are the 1 in a thousand kids who can qualify.

"Dont have a child if you can not afford one."

In america it doesn''t matter since we have to support everyone else''s child.

"Could it be the US is materialistic and we CHOOSE to overspend? "

Could it be that our politicians are spending too much of our money and we have to struggle to keep up? Naw. Couldn''t be that.

[xxunknown]

If you choose to be a consumer, you are going to pay the price. Not all of us need the latest fashion in clothes, the best in luxury vehicles and a mansion. I make about $50,000 a year and I do just fine.

[kuei12]

GEE. WHY CAN''T AMERICANS KEEP UP WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION? LOL

[xxunknown]

Why do you need a brand new vehicle every 5 years?
There are scholarships available for college.
Dont have a child if you can not afford one.
Could it be the US is materialistic and we CHOOSE to overspend?

[xxunknown]

Where do you live that the average cost of a home is $300,000?

[darnedsocks]

LET''S SEE WHAT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN IS FACED WITH WHEN IT COMES TO DEBT:

SCHOOL LOANS: $30,000 TO $70,0000
NEW VEHICLE: $15,000 TO 30,000 EVERY 5 YEARS
NEW HOME: $300,000
MEDICAL INSURANCE: $8,0000/PER YEAR
NEW BABY: $1,000,000
TAXES: $PUT YOUR NUMBER HERE

U.S. WORKER''S MEDIAN ANNUAL INCOME $50,0000

HMMM. GEE, YA THINK WE GOTTA A PROBLEM?

[nolalou]

This study is missing something. I go to Florida State University and my tuition is about $700 a semester for fifteen credits. That is not including the grants I recieve for academic achievement. Florida has the lowest tuition for state universities in the nation, I do not know how this study missed that.

Posted by JM_rvel

I don''t think they missed it. They don''t look at indiviudal colleges, but they average all colleges in the state. So apparently the low tuition at Florida State is offset by high tuition a Florida''s private colleges.

[jm_rvel]

This study is missing something. I go to Florida State University and my tuition is about $700 a semester for fifteen credits. That is not including the grants I recieve for academic achievement. Florida has the lowest tuition for state universities in the nation, I do not know how this study missed that.

[comeon11]

vsg4....................The purpose is not to make student loans seem impossible to pay back- it''s to deter people from going to school because of the high student loans.

[comeon11]

The price has gone up secure and increase the gap between rich and poor.

[walt1944-2009]

An independant study has determined that California is the only state in the Union that makes college affordable and that is "barely".

Naturally, this is all in keeping with the philosphy of the Great Emperor Bush II and all neocon Fascist Socialist Nazi Republicans everywhere who feel that college is a "privilege" which goes only to the spoiled kids of the rich and powerful, and not to the kids of the "underprivileged" masses.

After all, the Great Emperor Bush II himself was a totally spoiled rich kid who graduated from an Ivy League school with plenty of financial help from his "daddy"!

As far as actually LEARNING anything, one gets an idea of the Great Emperor''s IQ everytime he opens his mouth!

Keeping higher education out of the reach of the ordinary ciizen also means that the average person is believed to be more stupid, and thus more easily "influenced" by the maniac babblings of such "people" as Rush "Druggie" Limbaugh, Bill "I''m Always Right!" O''Reilly, and that "brilliant" orater from the sewers of New York, Micheal Savage!

The more stupid the average person is, the more "intelligent" the Great Emperor Bush II seems to be!

SIG HEIL, I LIKE STUPID PEOPLE!!!, BUSH!!!

[indianaman13]

Legacy,

You seem to think that intelligence is genetic and not a skill that is learned over time. College is just the culmination of a persons education. You want to make a difference in children, teach them more when they are younger, like getting them ready for math in 1st grade, not 3rd. And i don''t know where you went to school, but no one ever gets a degree for just showing up, there is this thing called work that students have to do and show for something called credit. I feel i have to explain this to you since you seem to never have gone to school.

[indianaman13]

This is a systematic approach to keep a consumer society like ours running. The populace has to be at a certain low education level to keep them buying *** they don''t need. Dumb people are easily fooled into being dumb with their money, go figure. The countries view on education creates a elite among the populace as well, all based on money and family, and i thought that us called Aristocracy, or a monarchy, or at the very least, a Hierarchy based on money. The general population are nothing more than numbers and statistics to those leading right now.

[roadracer9x]

LegacyABQ-- I wouldn''t blame the kids. If teachers were paid higher salaries and made more accountable for their ability to teach, we wouldn''t be a third world country as far as education goes. It is obscene that athletes, celebrities, and rock stars make millions while our teachers make less than most truck drivers. But we, the public, are ultimately at fault since we attend sporting events, rock concerts, and go to the movies thus jacking up what these people make and yet we do not get involved (as a whole) in the local school systems.

[legacyabq]

How about mental and intellectual suitability for college admittance, never mind the money thing. We''''ve dumbed down our academic requirements so much in the past few decades in order to allow for those who lack the intellectual and academic aptitude for this privilege. Remember, even public colleges and universities are a privilege and not a right and have to be earned. Money isn''''t the issue, it''''s the scholarly aspect that is.


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Posted by Credibility2


Absolutley true

[legacyabq]

Not everyone is meant for college.
I know some pretty stupid people that went to college and didnt learn anything concrete, or how to think critically or care about knowledge..
The more underserving brats that get handed a degree just for SHOWING UP, the LESS VALUE college degrees have for everyone..
A degree dont mean jack anymore as it is..
Thanks slackers and socialists for ruining education