Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-06 Thread keith smith
I wish I had time to get involved in this one Sorry to let you down. Keith Smith --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com wrote: From: Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com Subject: Horribly OT odious troll food To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss

Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Trent Shipley
Subsidies to community colleges and state universities should be replaced with a one-size-fits-all higher education vouchers. Using vouchers will contribute to a free market in higher education services, leveling the playing field between the University of Phoenix, Grand Canyon

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Joshua Zeidner
what I dont understand about the voucher system is, why are we taxing just to give back credits? why tax at all? -jmz On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Trent Shipleytship...@deru.com wrote: Subsidies to community colleges and state universities should be replaced with a one-size-fits-all

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Trent Shipley
We used to do that before World War Two and the GI Bill. Very few people went to college. If you were willing to sacrifice any pretense of a knowledge economy and to target a low wage-no tax strategy you could curtail all higher education government subsidy. If I were a politician I wouldn't

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:12 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: We used to do that before World War Two and the GI Bill. Very few people went to college. If you were willing to sacrifice any pretense of a knowledge economy and to target a low wage-no tax strategy you could curtail all higher

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:12 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: We used to do that before World War Two and the GI Bill. Very few people went to college. If you were willing to sacrifice any pretense of a knowledge economy and to target a low wage-no tax strategy you could

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Butash
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/it_grad_sues_school/ Couldn't help but think of this... My buddy went for an anthropology degree at a well respected east coast college, and has worked to survive as everything from a mechanic to tech support to management, none of which had any relevance

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Joshua Zeidner
you can always go into teaching. :) or grad school. or burn a pile of hundred dollar bills. -jmz On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Michael Butashmich...@butash.net wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/it_grad_sues_school/ Couldn't help but think of this... My buddy went for

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Eric Cope
did anyone ever think that most people attending college are wasting their (parent's | governments | own) money? Most degrees are a waste. Take my wife's degree in sociology. Do you know what you can do with that? Nothing or wait tables. It was a waste. We need to reevaluate your higher education