09-08-2015, 04:15 PM
(09-08-2015, 04:06 PM)GodHatesBengals Wrote: Well, I am definitely in favor of not offering federal aid to students of for-profit colleges (just like Obama). No reason why the government should be paying for an industry's profits, especially when, as you alluded, the academics are often not up to par with state (read: socialist) institutions of higher learning.
Two points re not everyone being college material:
1. FAFSA has GPA requirements. They can be appealed by demonstrating Satisfactory Academic Progress, but the fact is that students with bad grades can and do lose their aid.
2. I presume you are in favor of bringing manufacturing back and raising wages for manual laborers to a living one, then. Unless your stance is that people who aren't college material should not be able to support themselves even if they work full time; aka "shrivel and die".
Part of the problem in number 2 above is that unions played a part in the downfall of manufacturing in our country. I don't really have that big of a problem with all unions, and believe that free people do have a right to collective bargaining if they choose, I also think that it's not just the evil corporations that are to blame here.
Paying someone a "living wage" is not nearly the same thing in China or Vietnam as it is here. Labor costs a lot of money. Not to mention other benefits, taxes, EPA regulations, and the like that play a part in manufacturing and other types of jobs choosing not to try here.
I'm not even sure what the answer is really. Technology plays a large part as well. Think of how many jobs we've basically advanced ourselves out of due to advances in technology? The internet, electronics, robotics, the list goes on and on.
