Do you support Socialism?

[Sin City]

Sorry...this sounds like the Tobacco lobbyists who fund research organizations that conclude that there is no link between cancer and smoking cigarettes.

I've almost read the entire thing and still no actual retort other then "Most experts conclude there is no link between student aid and tuition going up". I guess if you keep saying it enough times...it will make it true.

All one needs is to use is observation. If you pump more money into the system...prices go up because money is soo easily available, therefore less worth. If you make higher education more easily accessible through Fed grants and guaranteed loans...universities respond by hiking up tuition. 1) because of inflation and 2) because they can. If you're gonna give them more 'students' to teach, they're gonna give you (and the students themselves later on) a higher price to pay for that service, so they can pay their professors and staff more money for teaching bigger classrooms of students.

What you're also doing is devaluing the degree itself. That articles says that "63 percent of U.S. jobs will require some form of postsecondary education". Of course they will but why is that? It's because of the Govt. A 'free" high School diploma is now almost worthless. Bachelor degrees will follow suit.

Pretty soon you're gonna have to go to school an additional 10 to 15 years...just to stand out from the rest of the crowd and get paid for a job that you could've gotten with a High School diploma... decades ago.

1_Cap over and out.

you still haven't provided any proof of this. there's a general consensus that what you say is not true. it's not like it's coming from a single source. nice try though..

[Sin City]

Sorry, I am not in the business of reading, or listening to pundits from any side. My opinions are my own. I base them on my own reasoning skills. I know its hard for someone who relies on talking points to comprehend, but formulating your own positions on complex issues is indeed possible!

providing actual facts to back up statements is indeed possible as well..
well for anyone but you at least. you don't seem to understand the notion.

[!! Shawn]

providing actual facts to back up statements is indeed possible as well..
well for anyone but you at least. you don't seem to understand the notion.

When you can find "facts" the point in either direction, its fairly pointless. If you don't like my opinion, explain how my logic is wrong. Don't just be like NUHHHUHHHHHH!!!! YOU WRONNGGGGG WHERE YOUR FACTTTTSSSS YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE APA CITATION IN YOUR POSTS OR YOU IS WRONGGGGSSSS!!!!!.

[One_Tycoon]

you still haven't provided any proof of this. there's a general consensus that what you say is not true. it's not like it's coming from a single source. nice try though..

What proof? What to you qualifies as proof. Are you even capable of engaging me on this on your own...or do you just post source about stuff you don't nothing about.

Most of you liberals have this 'indifference curve' graph fetish, where everything has to be pointed out to you on a graph. Sorry I don't have this.

Just pointing out to you the laws of economics using deductive logic. if you can't connect the dots...don't bother. Your articles were not proof. It was a blog, with the writer posting some 'studies' conducted by Government bureaucrats. Well in my book a killer or thief cannot investigate himself and then say, "there is no link between the killing and the killer".

[One_Tycoon]

providing actual facts to back up statements is indeed possible as well..
well for anyone but you at least. you don't seem to understand the notion.

You didn't provide any facts. Your source did not explain themselves.

They simply pointed out to some Govt. 'studies' and supposedly those studies say "that there is no link" without properly explaining how they arrived to that conclusion. And I guess we're supposed to take it at face value because a quote "expert" said so.

Sorry...some of us are a little more independent minded then that.

[squealpiggy]

You didn't provide any facts. Your source did not explain themselves.

They simply pointed out to some Govt. 'studies' and supposedly those studies say "that there is no link" without properly explaining how they arrived to that conclusion. And I guess we're supposed to take it at face value because a quote "expert" said so.

Sorry...some of us are a little more independent minded then that.

The thing about studies is that you have to read them to find out how they arrived at their conclusions. Simply dismissing them because you don't like the conclusion is not the same as reading them and finding out how they arrived there.

[mokmokv2]

The US does not exercise spending restraint. Just because they are wasting money on draconian criminal justice and on expensive wars and an absurd military instead of spending it on their citizens doesn't make them an "austerity" government.

What the... Sir sometimes I'm just wondering if you're really pretending to be ignorant just to get a good laugh. The freaking data is staring you right in the face and yet you choose to ignore it.

Dude AUSTERITY is staring your country right in the face. It's called FISCAL CLIFF. The cosmetic cuts and corrections your government "might" do is but a precursor.

[$tate of Mind]

No.

I believe that people have a basic right to their own prosperity.

So socialism eliminates personal prosperity?

[mokmokv2]

So socialism eliminates personal prosperity?

It makes the citizen DEPENDENT upon the state for personal prosperity.