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JTHipster  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Just Paid for Dick Cheney’s New Heart, Now Who Will Pay for My Daughter’s?
....welp looks like I need to get on the lowest possible company plan I can get on so I can afford going to a terrible community college because of rising college costs.

I'm slowly beginning to suspect that the ultimate plan is to make everyone enter the labor force immediately out of high school, and leave college up to the richest citizens.

Why do people get confused when they here young people aren't buying houses? Is that really so surprising given the cost of everything we need to pay for? If your parents can't or won't pay for your college you're in the whole an enormous sum of money, if you can afford it at all, and if ACA is repealed I have to add health insurance on top of it. Then I have to add car insurance on top of that in order to get to work and get around because I live too far from public transport, and I'm not paid nearly enough to cover all of this.

Good thing we're giving the rich all those tax cuts, I'm sure that last nickels and pennies in my pockets can more than make up for it.





zebra2  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It's actually very easy nowadays to get the money to go to college; the catch is paying it back. With many colleges now looking to put you into a debt of 100K+, it gets very hard to justify the education from a pragmatic standpoint short of going for the most lucrative career path that college offers you. It cheapens education and makes it more oriented around business and entirely economically-focused.
JTHipster  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Debatable. Here's the issue.

I had a pretty bad semester, due to some personal drama and the resulting depression. Okay it was romantic drama. I'm young enough to be stupid.

Regardless, I did poorly enough that my parents would not pay for any part of college, even cosigning a loan. The student loan I was offered for 6.5k was pretty much worthless; I couldn't find anyone to cosign it for me and since I'm still a middle class white male with generally above average but not fantastic grades, I had no scholarship available either.

I am resolving that if I ever win the lottery, one of my actions will be to establish a scholarship fund for middle class white people who are slightly above average. I'll call it the "Egan Dunne Fund for Middle Class White People Who are Slightly Above Average and Don't Have a Chance at Another Scholarship but Still Want to Go to School."

I hope you guys are comfortable knowing my name. It might get awkward if you track me down and try to start deep conversations or share interesting stories outside of the internet.

zebra2  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It is true that there's a gap in providing aid to those above the very bottom of the economic ladder. In my personal experience, the FAFSA and such do a pretty good job of giving the means for those at the bottom, but the support dries up before you get to those who can carry the burden on your own.

You can still file as an independent at age 24 under the FAFSA and greatly improve the aid you get, but that's obviously far from ideal.

thenewgreen  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Sharing your name is totally your call, but be advised... I just purchased:

www.EganDunneFundforMiddleClassWhitePeopleWhoareSlightlyAboveAverageandDon'tHaveaChanceatAnotherScholarshipbutStillWanttoGotoSchool.com

You're going to have to pony up some $ for that URL pal!

JTHipster  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Fool, I'll just register it as www.EganDunneFundforMiddleClassWhitePeopleWhoareSlightlyAboveAverageandDon'tHaveaChanceatAnotherScholarshipbutStillWanttoGotoSchool.org
thenewgreen  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
JTHipster  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I still laughed harder at that scene than any other.
thenewgreen  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I know... if only it were meant to be funny. Have you ever seen this? If you're a star wars fan and hated the prequels you'll laugh a lot. I know I did.
JTHipster  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Seen it, the Episode 2 Review, the Episode 3 review, all four TNG Star Trek movie reviews, every episode of Half in the Bag, the Star Trek 2009 review, Babies Day Out, Cop Dog, Avatar, and Indiana Jones 4 reviews.

I was debating getting the one t-shirt. "Strike Hard to Break the Bone." Might be pushing my social standing a bit too far though.

thenewgreen  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Alright then...

Which should I watch next?

thenewgreen  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
This is so true. Why would someone owe $100,000+ and become an educator that earns $45k, which is really about $30k after taxes? It's going to take many years to pay back the $100k as an educator. That same person could get an MBA and earn 6 figures or medicine etc.

It changes how capable people decide what they will do with their lives.

squeebies  ·  4703 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Wow. What has happened to your education system. 60 years ago it was essentially free. It's a real bad sign for the future of the US that your economy of educated people is severely shrinking. This is the opposite in China and India. The chief of Education programs in Finland has tried to explain why they do so well (they only have public free schools, including UNI) to the US but they can't see past the $. Bye bye teachers and art degrees