Don't you just love our shitty system??

[Playinghardball]

[sakabatou]

1. K&R

[ManiacJoe]

2. Many college degrees will get you a "shitty office job". True.

[bvar22]

3. In the 60s and 70s,...

ANYBODY could attend the State University and graduate DEBT FREE,
including the Graduate Degrees,
IF he or she were willing to work a Part time job.
This was the RULE, not the exception.

We could have that again IF we had a Party that represented the Working Class.

Lowering the interest rate on Student Loans is a Moderate Republican solution,
not a traditional Democratic Party solution.

The Democratic Party solution back when I joined the Democratic Party was that Higher Education
was a fundamental Human Right
and NOT a Commodity to be sold to Americans by For Profit Corporations.


[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center] [center] [/font]
[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]

[mountain grammy]

7. Yes, that's true. I went to a private college

so accumulated a small debt, but if I had attended the state university, I wouldn't have had to borrow a dime. That was 1965.

[Cleita]

13. Yes, the good old days and we sort of took it for granted back then, never imagining in a million

years it would be taken away from us.

[ErikJ]

20. I heard the govt used to subsidize 80% of tuition now only 20%

dont have time to research exact figures. I think Thom Hartmann said it.

[hunter]

9. I graduated with ZERO debt.

That's the way it ought to be now.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

10. A Party that represented the Working Class?

Oh you silly! You had me there for a moment.

[bvar22]

11. Sad,

isn't it.

The really sad part is I remember that Party,
and I miss it.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. That party is more interested in Drone strikes now apparently.

It's more important to kill civilians in undeclared wars the world over than educate your own.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

12. We employed students at a maximum of 19 and a 1/2 hours a week

at the University of Calif. when I worked there and at better than prevailing wages.
Working around their class schedules and finals as well.

[SunSeeker]

16. Yes, and UC schools were tuition FREE back in the day...then Reagan became Governor. nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

18. Ah yes, "If it takes a bloodbath" Reagan

Those were the words directed at student protesters by Reagan.

[geretogo]

19. tuition free

I remember . In 1971 I got a associate degree after two years at a junior college in LA for just $ 6.50 per semester for parking
and then a couple hundred per semester at Cal State Northridge . In 1980 it all changed when Reagen became president . It was all out war on the working class from then to now .

[giftedgirl77]

4. I was thinking about almost the exact same thing today...

However, I was thinking about the debate surrounding the minimum wage & how people argue the fact that jobs at fast food restaurants & the like aren't meant to support families & those people should go out & get better jobs. Yet higher education at any level is so damn expensive & people still have to have a way to support their families while trying to get this higher education it's a vicious circle of endless nothingness.

This shit is nonsense, people should be rewarded for bettering themselves & obtaining some type of higher education, even if it's through a technical college.

Sorry of subject a bit, but still somewhat applicable.

[librechik]

5. what's really frightening is how fast the system turned around from Golden Age to

Fuck you buddy. Let's see, about 35 years, as I reckon. I'm counting from when Reagan decided free state college was a crock.

[Auggie]

14. Name it Reagan's Shitty System

[daleanime]

6. Big K&R...

[MindMover]

8. and flipping burgers ... or waiting tables ....nt

[LibDemAlways]

17. In 1970 I paid $72.00 a semester to

attend a California State University. My half of the rent on my small off campus apartment was $70.00 a month. Today my daughter attends the University of California. Her tuition is approx. $4500.00 a quarter -- three quarters in the academic year and her half of the rent on her small apartment is $700.00. It's insane.

[rhett o rick]

21. After they get a degree they will find they are over qualified for the only jobs available

and end up begging on the streets. It's a win-win for the wealthy. Great system.

[Capt. Obvious]

22. Meh, kids these days

[jsr]

23. +1

[woo me with science]

24. K&R