Posted by machine_easy2 on October 14, 2015, 7:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Democrip debate"
So if that would fund it (and I'm not saying it would, I honestly don't know) --- what would be the downside?
Downsides? Well first off, the people who manage my 401k stuff would be loosing what might be the only money I can make on a trade. I know the government isn't going to be able to provide for me a retirement. I'm good with math, I've seen the numbers, it's not possible (setting the retirement age to 89 aside).
Another down side: We are already sending way to many people to college, who have no business being on a campus of higher learning. They typically earn degrees not worth the paper they are written on, in a field of study less valuable than "Under Water Basket Weaving". These students are then racked with debt they never should have incurred, while the ones that should have, and did, go to college, have their prospective valuations cheapened. You don't dumb down college so every one can go. It's not an "experience" for would be frat boys, it's for smart ambitious people, who want to learn things they just can't teach in High School. When college becomes about frats and sportsball, we all loose. Take away the cost, it will be all frats and sportsball, the nerds we need will loose their educations.
It will work the exact opposite as planed and we move towards Idiocracy that much faster.
Have you been on a college campus these days. Math teachers must announce a trigger warning before they use a number like 69. If you need a trigger warning in a math class (or any other class for that matter) you belong in a nut house, not a college classroom.
Now if you wanted to send kids who looked like good prospects for Med School, to Med School, you might have a point, but when I have little sisters (white ones mind you) who have "Bachelors Of Science" degrees who spent more time in "African American Women's Studies" than math class, we have a problem.
on October 14, 2015, 7:27 pm, in reply to "