Sorry, I understand than there are some philosophical differences here. And I can understand how someone could disagree on the impact of taxing companies profits on inflation.
But this is cause for you to worry about senility and incompetence? Come on man, you understand that different people can hold different views than you on things and still be thoughtful people, right?
His point is perfectly valid, when you have an investor class when several individuals basically hold the wealth of nations as personal tools, where they can bid up the price of goods, and create their own currencies from thin air, and basically extract excessive rents from their clients. And while companies are making record profits, pulling some of this wealth into general government revenues which on balance would go towards national debt, would on balance reduce inflationary pressures. It might not work in practice but it's perfectly reasonable to hold those views.
I think looking at what is driving the increase in the cost of education could also be useful.
It seems that the ancillary services in education are driving higher costs. I suspect that teaching costs are going down, as there are simply fewer professors. At the same time, universities are constantly getting incredible new facilities, and seem to be growing from an admin standpoint.
Those ancillary costs aren't really relevant to educational outcome.
Looking at costs, I feel like University education is ripe for disruption. Lower cost options that provide greater upside. I liked what Lambda was doing, and can see other options in that model, but it could be something totally different.
If you get down to it, the reason most people 'buy' a degree is the ability to secure quality employment. Students pay high prices for mediocre and good schools, as opposed to cheaper community colleges, because in general the good office jobs go to university graduates.
Yes, I can agree with the bolded. It's not like professors are being paid incredible sums for teaching either. However, this is due to student demand. Institutions with newer or nicer facilities see higher enrollment than those who have older or simpler facilities. The quality of education doesn't matter to the students as much as the "college experience" does. In order to remain competitive, institutions have to upgrade their facilities.
It seems to me that if students were actually focused on education over everything else, they would choose schools that have good metrics on graduation and employment following graduation, not necessarily which school has the nicest university center or dorm rooms. Part of this problem is on the consumer.
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If Oz loses I wonder if his creepy final campaign pitch did him in..
"So, when you go to bed at night, put your head on that soft pillow, you'll know Oz will be doing exactly what you want him to do if you were there next to him,"
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Oz is ahead right now, barely, but it's in automatic recount territory so the winner there won't be known for weeks. As for Cawthorn well, he broke the first rule of Cocaine Orgies: You Do Not Talk About Cocaine Orgies. Obviously future congresspeople will have taken note.
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American Universities (and to some extent Canadian as well) have way too much entanglement with private enterprise to not be exploited. Start treating education as a function of government, and you will start to see some financial return that will mitigate costs to the facilities and students.
Example : a great wealth of medical research and breakthroughs are due to post secondary work. The system in place however, requires knowledge to be passed to private interest for preparation and delivery for consumption. There is obvious and rampant corruption to this system.
... a generic government department that verifies testing, follows all regulation of the FDA, shoulders liability and sells to the public under the supervision of the original researchers? Profits go back to the school system? Pharmaceutical companies must work independently. Scientists that successfully launch product are rewarded to offset staying in a non-profit setting.
Anyway, I'm out of my depth, I'll see myself out.
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Nice to see progressive candidate, Summer Lee, holding onto a narrow lead in PA after AIPAC tried to get involved by flooding a bunch of money and ads in support of the establishment candidate.
I don’t think he lost because he is terrible. He lost because he made the mistake of trying to run in a district that had been created and gerrymandered for the State Speaker.
I'm sure it's been happening for a while now, but pretty crazy to now have multiple examples of GOP super-PAC groups trying to drag the Democrats more to the right. This is why I think groups like the Lincoln Project should not be trusted.
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Derek Sutton is right. I personally took out a $150,000 student loan because it would be great for my credit score. I look forward to putting it to good use and obtaining an assuredly quick approval on my Capital One Mastercard, with a very attractive interest rate of 21.99%.
I am glad we have intelligent, responsible, and forward thinking adults urging our children to obtain tens of thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for the benefit of their extremely valuable credit score, a number which cannot be raised in any substantially less financially risky ways that I can possibly imagine.
I also think 18 year old drunk drivers should be executed on the spot. So that’s two things we agree on.
Yes, you're right. But why stop at student loans, forgive pay day loan debt, credit card debt, car loans, business loans, and mortgages too. A real solution would start with capping interest rates on (or interest free) student loans, free communitty college which Biden campaigned on, and the financial disclosure of post secondary institutions. Affordable distance education and child care programs for students with children. Simple, efficient government sponsored job programs for students including more paid co ops and more paid apprenticeship programs and providing higher/ more scholarships and bursaries for course completion and GPA. Fair incentives, fair costs and fair consequences. Not just wiping out debt on to have the cycle begin again immediately.
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Are you trying to compare the current incompetence with the previous? If so, the previous level certainly was 1000x worse.
The incompetence coming from the White House is currently connected to two Democrats in the Senate and the entire GQP or things might actually get done.
Trump is a buffoon and was called out for his buffoonery each and every time. Biden's press availability is extremely limited, like last week, when addressing the baby formula shortage, he released a prepared statement and did not meet with the media. As entertaining as I found Jen Psaki, the President, if capable, should really be more available to the media.
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So you watched 4 years of Trumps White House, you credulously sat by and considers injecting bleach into your arms, shining a light down your throat to kill viruses, you watched a man with a sharpie show that many many meteorologist agree with his false statements, you believed that 20,000 people in a picture was more than 200,000 people (I'm sure if we put our backs into we could come up with 300-400 equally bad examples).
Yet some giving two concrete actions being taken regarding baby formula shortages, then refusing to give definitive timelines on something, thats incompetent?
What are you trying to say here?
Did you just endure years of people laughing at the rank incompetence of someone you like and internalize that its a good line of attack?
I mean the tweets are more polite, but things, right now could not be more difficult for so many Americans then they've been in the last 70 years. Division, cost of living/ cost of everything, violence in the community, supply chain, border crisis and on and on. This list is endless and under the current Democrats not one thing has improved for anyone.
What has Biden done right? The withdrawal of the troops from Afgahnastan? Nope. Covid? "We're not going to eliminate jobs, we're going to eliminate the virus". Nope. Immigration? Nope, millions illegally crossing the border and with Title 42 set to expire, more and more undocumented migrants will enter the country each day. This government in its current from is a total failure.
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