The Problem With A One Word Solution

But expulsion means loss of revenue to a university and as we all know, today's university is not in the business of education, but increasing enrollment and leftist indoctrination. Also, since Bill Whittle was mentioned, check out his essay on the Declaration of Independance at PJTV. Very inspirational.

"Running out of other people’s money stinks, doesn’t it?" QOTD LOL!

Skip: You took the words (letters?) right out of my mouth.

or took the words right out of Margaret Thatcher's mouth. That's a famous phrase attributed to her: 'the only problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.'

Well just look at Greece and the mess they are in. I was listening to French television (France) and the commentators are so sorry for the poor unions in the streets who have to suffer with their 8% raises.

Its so sad. All those English majors forced to pony up actual money for their worthless degrees.

Hey kids, why not skip the expensive post secondary education and go straight to the burger flipping job you're going to have anyway? It IS what you're being trained for, you know.

You can take all that money you save on the education and blow it on an expensive car. That way you'll still be in debt to the neck like your friends, but it will be easier to pick up chicks on Friday night.

I paid cash for my degrees. Have to say I'm not all that impressed with the value for money.

...and I went and got me a redneck job driving a truck.

Do you think I would do better than the 90g a year I do now with a PHD?

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""""Do you think I would do better than the 90g a year I do now with a PHD?""""

was "polishing" cars a few years ago(piece work), made about 85K a year, but I had to work long hours.....24-30 per week:-))))

see what a gd 12 certificate will do for you, oh and a little ambition:-))))

Phantom, English majors might actually have some marketable skills, like, you know, the ability to string together a series of coherent sentences to form a paragraph. What does a degree in Sociology or Anthropology or Women's Studies or Native Studies do, other than make you really, really good at whining and complaining?

Like Phantom, I paid cash for my degrees also but I went to med school when the tuition was less than $2K/year and it was easy to work part-time and pay my tuition.

I've never understood the mindset where people will take a degree in English and expect to get a job with it. This is just an expensive form of daycare for overgrown kids.

These people would be a lot better off if they spent their time learning a trade (and the money considerably better than flipping burgers). OTOH, most of the people who I see who have decided to pursue the tradesman route are energetic, self-sufficient and not looking for handouts which leaves us with the problem of WTF do we do with the potential English majors if they can't go to their academic daycare center?

And in the wonderful socialist paradise of Iceland, the citizens have voted against paying their bills, owed mostly to Brits and Dutch investors. Meanwhile, in Greece, now would be a good time for Melina Mercouri to begin clattering on about the return of the Elgin Marbles, so they can pawn them back to the EU.

The university student union president got a ear full when he came gloating about the tuition freeze to me and my fellow 4th year engineering students as we where all about to become the tax payers who funded his little victory.

I've been out of university 5 years now, student loans are paid off (where never very big). I have a house, nice new car, a motor cycle for me and my wife, honeymooned in Tahiti and live pretty well. Of course I never did go to Cancun on a spring break or back pack in Europe of over the summer. Instead I worked 2 jobs, that and I have an education and experience worth paying for.

If you want to spend 4 years becoming the best dam English literature critic there is, all the power to you, just pay the bill yourself.