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Bloated universities? I work at a public university and we get budget cuts every year. Bloated my eye.
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Should Government Forgive Home Loans?
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Bloated universities? I work at a public university and we get budget cuts every year. Bloated my eye.
Staff...you guys such hind teat compared to fancy buildings.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Id rather see that than the banks getting bailed out while homes get forclosed on like during the Recession.
I'd prefer to bail out the homeowners
to keep both them & the banks healthy.
And then fix from what government
was doing wrong with lending, taxation,
& policies that are barriers to selling.
Well yes, I have read that the adjuncts in particular get paid diddly squat; but the students pay for housing with their school loans. Tuition is on top of that. Teachers don't taste a drop of that rent money. Then there is all of the food, and that comes out of loans, too. In the end the very cheapest full time student pays tens of thousands, and the most expensive pays hundreds; yet teacher budgets keep getting cut. Where is the money going? Not to you.
My university holds (held) a fake referendum among the students to get permission to pay for a building upgrade with student fees. The students vote (voted) against it, but the school ceo's overrides the vote by having the student council say the vote against is actually a vote in favor. So they have us vote, we vote against, then they add fees anyway to upgrade a building no students care about. For our own good. The building is part of the original campus and about forty years old. Its about 2 miles away from the golf course, and the campus is divided by a major highway that students must use 40 minutes to traverse. That's what I call bloat.
Audie
Veteran Member
OK cancel all debt.
Esp your national debt.
Because public spending on education promotes public wealth while public spending on housing does not.
Soandso
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There are a few - Norway being one of them. I don't know if I'd say "free" more than "covered" by their social programs payed for by tax dollars
We Never Know
No Slack
IMO they should have bailed out the home owners that way they get to keep their houses and the banks get their money. Its a win win.
We Never Know
No Slack
Lets wipe the debt slate clean for all individuals, all businesses and all countries. Start all over with no one owing anyone.
Audie
Veteran Member
All quite amusing if you aren't left holding the bag.
I wonder what percent of the population would be alive a year later.
We Never Know
No Slack
What ever the percent I bet they would all be back in debt within that year
The do cancel it partially every year
by inflation, ie, expanding the money
supply faster than the economy,
which devalues the dollar.
My statement was broader than just making it free.
Consider...
Can a student collect PhDs in various fields that
don't yield benefits commensurate with the cost?
IOW, you agreed with my post.
Every man for himself does not a happy society make. It creates a competitive, zero sum, sink-or-swim society; a society of winners and losers, with no help for the latter.
Government doesn't provide happiness, but it does have a role in removing obstacles to its pursuit, and ensuring the Maslovian basics.
It wasn't government intrusion that created the several crises we find ourselves in. It was the lack of intrusion; the removal of regulation and oversight over the past 40+ years.
????
So why do you think I proposed adding
social services when the economy can
afford it? In 1776, USA couldn't do much.
But in 2023 it can.
Heyo
Veteran Member
That would be biblical. Isn't the right all religious?
And while we're at it, make usury illegal again. Nobody would go into dept as nobody would lend any more.
esmith
Veteran Member
No, education is not "free". Taxpayers pay for it.
Yeah, well, if/when the USA actually does it, then we can have a completely different conversation. The point is, it's not being done, while many problems continue to fester and smolder unchecked.