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11-09-2012, 09:53 AM
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Location: Waldorf, MD
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Whether or not people want to admit it, the only reason prices are so high right now (even for online college) is that the US Government backs the student loans. Much like healthcare and previously the housing market. All forcasted by experts years ago.
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11-09-2012, 11:59 AM
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#102
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Chattanooga, TN
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Quote:
Originally Posted by randomrogue
Healthcare and education should be free. We should all be picking up the tab so that we have a healthier and more educated population.
Just simply cap enrollment to those that can actually get a job. There is no need for a million art literature majors.
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This is certainly where we're headed. Of course, we don't have unlimited resources, so government will have to decide who gets into Harvard and who attends their local community college, who can be a doctor and who cannot. But it'll all be free.
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"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know,
72 degrees at all times and -- whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the
tundra, and then just expect that every other country is going to say, okay, you know you
guys go ahead and keep on using 25% of the world's energy - Barack Hussein Obama
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11-09-2012, 12:03 PM
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#103
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Chattanooga, TN
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mursilis
I have a sociology degree with a philosophy minor. I can personally attest, what a profoundly bad idea that was!
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Time to open a civilization repair shop? 
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"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know,
72 degrees at all times and -- whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the
tundra, and then just expect that every other country is going to say, okay, you know you
guys go ahead and keep on using 25% of the world's energy - Barack Hussein Obama
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11-09-2012, 12:10 PM
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#104
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by werepossum
This is certainly where we're headed. Of course, we don't have unlimited resources, so government will have to decide who gets into Harvard and who attends their local community college, who can be a doctor and who cannot. But it'll all be free.
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I have heard of some countries like that.
Free educations
Guaranteed job
No freedom.
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11-09-2012, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Holy fallacy batman!
If you have the grades and aptitude then you can get into Harvard. The only thing that will change is that it won't be so expensive.
I love how people are so worried about change. Adapt, migrate, or die.
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11-09-2012, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doppel
Londo and jadow are both correct.
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This
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11-09-2012, 01:12 PM
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#107
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 46,414
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mursilis
It's a nation of 300M+ people, with a ridiculously complex economy. How are you ever going to figure out how many of each kind of degree we need?
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Whatever pays, they need.
Whatever doesnt, they dont.
My beef is people racking up tons of debt for shit like Art History, Womens Studies, and other things that will not likely get you any job, much less one that pays well enough to get rid of your loans.
And since the government backs up student loans, I think I have a right to complain.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alkemyst
you can't ask for it 6x a day bro.
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11-09-2012, 01:13 PM
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#108
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 6,730
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Quote:
Originally Posted by werepossum
Time to open a civilization repair shop? |
Luckily, law school worked out better.
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11-09-2012, 01:33 PM
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#109
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Join Date: May 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by highland145
How? Union? That doesn't compute either. |
Not union. It's completely normal for the plumbing bill for a 1500 sqft New house here to be around $10k materials in, most expensive item is usually a high efficiency gas water heater @ about $900, the rest is pipe and connectors. Homeowner/general contractor supplies fixtures. Total material cost is about $2200, rough-in labor about 24 man hours, finishing about 8.
So pay your apprentice $18/hr (typical second year rate) @ 16 hours, that's $288 plus employee costs, so $320 about. That leaves you with $7480 for your own 16 hours.
$467.50/hour. I see it almost every week.
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