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BlueToTheBone

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1. In 1983, my 4 year degree cost me

Reply to stockholmer (Original post)

Sat Feb 4, 2012, 11:19 AM

Feb 2012

$10,000. That included living expenses. I was so lucky to be in the push for women's education and received a couple of grants and scholarships. I had work study and loans to pay for it all.

What is happening today is a real travesty. THe pukes hate educated people...Raygun drove the first spike in the coffin of public education as governor of California.

In contrast, the "Founding Fathers" knew that democracy couldn't survive among the stupid, so they enacted the first public schools.

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In 1983, my 4 year degree cost me BlueToTheBone Feb 2012 #1

The price of college is set by supply + demand, not by the availability of gov't aid. Romulox Feb 2012 #2

Agree completely.... Fastcars Feb 2012 #3

by increasing the amount of available credit (subsidised loans) & outright grants, an artificial stockholmer Feb 2012 #4

I disagree. Demand for higher education is driven by the limited economic opportunities Romulox Feb 2012 #5

if that were indeed the case, then you wouldn't have seen the explosive increases in tuition you did stockholmer Feb 2012 #6