Uhh... This maybe flame-bait, but I can't pass this up.
What planet are you from, anyway?
This is why only the rich can learn in the US. Very very few poor people have degrees...
I will grant you, there are stories of poor people who cannot get an education because they live in a cycle of violence or poverty, but this is hardly the standard. Rather than "The system won't let poor people can't get an education, therefore they're always poor", I submit that "People who didn't go for an education stay poor."
When I was getting ready to attend college, (1979) my father had been diagnosed with Alzheimers and was no longer working. My mother worked as a bookkeeper at a local radio station. I went to a 1st rate, 4 year school and got a good education. I borrowed money, I saved money working during high school and I worked summers to make it through. My situation is hardly special or unique. THIS is the standard... and there is nothing wrong with working for something.
I'm sure someone will pop in with "that was then, this is now". Well, now my state proves the HOPE scholarship. If you maintain an A or B average, your tuition is paid for. This is paid for by a state-wide lottery. "Lottery n. - a tax on the mathmatically challenged"
There are plenty of things that our society can improve on, but hopping in here with doom & gloom over why the government doesn't just pay everbody to go to college shows a tremendous lack of thought on your part. Socialism may sound great, but it rarely yields vibrant, properous societies where people actually have a chance to better themselves in life.
Anybody remember PKARC? This was Phil Katz's first compression program. The people that made ARC sued him and won. PK changed his algorithm, called it PKZIP and never looked back.
At the time, the xxARC programs were used by BBS's. That community adopted PKZIP and went out of their way to ignore anything that came from the ARC folks.
Win the battle, lose the war.
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What planet are you from, anyway?
This is why only the rich can learn in the US. Very very few poor people have degrees ...
I will grant you, there are stories of poor people who cannot get an education because they live in a cycle of violence or poverty, but this is hardly the standard. Rather than "The system won't let poor people can't get an education, therefore they're always poor", I submit that "People who didn't go for an education stay poor."
When I was getting ready to attend college, (1979) my father had been diagnosed with Alzheimers and was no longer working. My mother worked as a bookkeeper at a local radio station. I went to a 1st rate, 4 year school and got a good education. I borrowed money, I saved money working during high school and I worked summers to make it through. My situation is hardly special or unique. THIS is the standard... and there is nothing wrong with working for something.
I'm sure someone will pop in with "that was then, this is now". Well, now my state proves the HOPE scholarship. If you maintain an A or B average, your tuition is paid for. This is paid for by a state-wide lottery. "Lottery n. - a tax on the mathmatically challenged"
There are plenty of things that our society can improve on, but hopping in here with doom & gloom over why the government doesn't just pay everbody to go to college shows a tremendous lack of thought on your part. Socialism may sound great, but it rarely yields vibrant, properous societies where people actually have a chance to better themselves in life.
Anybody remember PKARC? This was Phil Katz's first compression program. The people that made ARC sued him and won. PK changed his algorithm, called it PKZIP and never looked back. At the time, the xxARC programs were used by BBS's. That community adopted PKZIP and went out of their way to ignore anything that came from the ARC folks. Win the battle, lose the war.