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It's hard to know if one's earning potential goes up as a result of what's become finishing school for millions of upper-middle class folks. College is just...where they go. And they tend to live longer as a matter of course.

 

I don’t think you know what the word rich actually means.

Actual rich people don’t borrow money for college. The government won’t even give rich people money for college.

I roomed with a Saudi whose parents sent him three TV’s and two computers for a two hundred square foot room in one year. He did not have a fucking loan.

 

Once a fox approached a river, preparing to swim to the other side. Before he waded in, he heard a voice call to him.
“Please, mister fox, could you do me a kindness and let me cross this river on your back? Surely if I try to swim myself, I will drown.”
The fox looked beside him and found the source of the voice to be a scorpion.
“No,” replied the fox. “If I allow you on my back, you will surely sting me and I will drown.”
“Trust me,” assured the scorpion. “If I sting you, we both will die.”
The fox thought for a minute but although he did not trust the scorpion, he agreed. The scorpion crawled on and the fox began his swim.
Halfway through, the fox felt the pain of a sting in his back. Quickly, the fox began to lose his strength. As he struggled against the venom, the fox managed to get one last question out.
“Why?” The fox pleaded. “You have liked us both!”
“Sorry,” The scorpion said. “It is my nature.”

Farewell, Kevin. The scorpion followed his nature.

 

It kills me when Miami Rep M. Salazar - who's accent is thicker than a Cuban sandwich - is on TV talking about closing the border and immigration.

 

Some of that certainly, but

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-...milies-especially-at-less-selective-colleges/

 

What could possibly make one skeptical of Alma's earnestness? @doctorquant

 

Similar to Irish Catholics giving a cold shoulder to the Italian Catholics who emigrated to the US decades later. A lot of Hispanic voters feel "they got here legally" and others should too. That the border crossers give Hispanics a bad name and make things tougher for them. Hispanic voter are the least homogenous voting bloc in the US today. Depends a lot on how long you have been in the US. Whether they primarily speak English or Spanish. Male/female etc.

New data helps explain Trump’s gains among Latino voters in 2020

 

Well, let's factor for that in the "staggering" study and see where it comes out.

Of course, if college graduation alone is the trigger, let's redesign higher ed so that it doesn't cater to niche (mostly progressive) studies and bloated administrations, but toward funneling as many people as possible into schools focused on education. Not grant-gathering. Not young adult socialization with massive dorms and lazy rivers. Learning. Let's be pragmatic.

But that won't happen. Because college isn't designed for that. It never really was.

 

Let's just argue, for a second, OK, graduating from college - that act, and all the things that go along with achieving that act - really did, for a variety of factors, accumulate to five additional years on the lives of Americans who did it.

If that's true, is this how colleges should be spending money? Is this how they should be charging tuition?

Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow. ‘These Places Are Just Devouring Money.’

Higher ed is in for a reckoning. And it'll be sad, too, because there are so many good-intentioned folks within it. Just like the Christian church. But it's become a rotten egg.

 

I assume Boebert knows she's in a dog fight to retain her seat and voting to oust McCarthy would only become one more issue in her campaign. But that's a lot of assumptions on my part, starting with the idea that she has any self awareness.

 

What are some of the niche studies that you would like to see eliminated?