Am I the only one who has figured out that the whole college system is broke? I remember a conversation I had in Buenos Aires that paying for college is not a bad thing as it showed that you cared about your education. I am amazed; I now think I am wrong about this. Look at it this way, should everyone own a house? If they can afford it sure! Hey people, you can buy a house for 60,000 dollars, you don’t need a 500,000 dollar house. I saw in the airport yesterday that a couple was losing their house, their monthly mortgage was 4900 dollars, now this was a sweet house but let em lose it, 4900 WTF! Why refinance a loan they cannot afford to keep them in a house like this. Let them get a house they can afford! Well I think I understand it, to them it was never their money and now that there was no refi and the party was over they lost. Note they had several parties, several round the world trips, and now that they would have to pay it back – they are on TV, saying the government should bail them out. Well the government does not make money, it taxes.
Let us take Pell grants, in a country that believes in the theory of evolution we are silly enough to say that as a country we should provide everyone equally with money to go to school, loans, grants, you name it. Does anyone reading this believe that all people are equally capable of succeeding in school? I hate anecdotal evidence, but sometimes it gives us a starting point, a place that begs us to ask should there be more research done on some topic. So here is some anecdotal evidence. Once I knew a woman, whose boyfriend was in prison, she had nothing to do so was in school, fully paid by the government, to learn a trade. It was computers. She had gone through the program and was doing a internship. Her boyfriend got out of prison early and she quit and went back to full time drug dealing – more lucrative. Was this money well spent? When considering a student’s qualifications should income be the main consideration. Would a nation be stronger if it paid for (invested in [spent money]) its best and brightest to take any classes that they want, anywhere?
Who benefits from sending unqualified people to degree mills to get degrees versus an education in fields that they cannot compete or work? I think it is time for this country to do testing as part of what educational opportunities it will fund. People should have to work for opportunity not be handed a check with nothing owed for it. If the government pays for you to get a degree in basket weaving and you never work as a basket weaver you should have to pay back the money, with interest. Am I wrong here? Our politicians are more interested in buying votes than fixing things and soon they will bankrupt this republic because they are too afraid to tell the people the truth. One of the truths is that everyone is not given, by anyone, the right to a college degree and if we were, why did we all not go to MIT…