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[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

An article from the "left-leaning"* think tank Manhattan Institute: Time for Colleges to Get Some Skin in the Game



Yea that's right. Not only is Mis Born-rich private school shill letting scam private colleges off the hook -- they are now lobbying to get rid of the one method many (including myself) college grads with shit employment have of paying our loans back. "It will cost money"...

What a fucking joke. It literally costs less than 1/4 of the new military spending the Congress just gave trump.....over multiple years. How would this fucking help anything?

I watched Chris Hedge's best speech this year last night. This a lot of what he is talking about. The elites bled the working class so much that they are now going for school money and monetizing prison labor etc...essentially cannibalizing the state. This is a phase that all late empires have gone through.

The college student-loan bubble is going to pop...and there is no way we are electing a president "hard on student-loans"...this and other problems could very well create a crisis of debt and cause the world to detach the dollar as their primary reserve currency.

Once the dollar is no longer king...the empire is over. We are not going to be voting in military adventurism (another sign of late empire) and it will cause us to retract. Any credibility the elites have (very little), will disappear.

Trump will go down in History as a sign of all kinds of problems....but we will mostly focus on what the corporate elites were doing during the Trump era.

* It appears that they no longer purport to be centrist or left-leaning.

If it makes you feel any better, you’re right about many of these points. The good thing about “late empire” is the facade of republic will fade and you won’t have to worry about these decisions. The Elect will be making your decisions for you because you couldn’t make he correct ones yourself. Claudius II saved Rome from a decline much more inevitable than the one you predict now. A hero will rise, and he will silence the whiners and crybabies and welfare recipients

As an aside, would you admit that people who worked their way through college and got valuable degrees instead of pursuing law to rob people using state power were actual smarter than you and had a more ethical lifestyle as it pertains to civics? Just curious what responsibility you bear for completely predictable mistakes that you made

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As an aside, would you admit that people who worked their way through college and got valuable degrees instead of pursuing law to rob people using state power were actual smarter than you and had a more ethical lifestyle as it pertains to civics? Just curious what responsibility you bear for completely predictable mistakes that you made

Not going to lawschool right out of college, from a personal interest standpoint, was my mistake. Not going in the first place. Lawyers are not always evil. The main reason people have this perception is corporate law...and some rubes fall for the idea that trail lawyers are extremely bad people (corporate propaganda). Even if we turned into a utopian society, we would need a few lawyers. I honestly think I'm the type that like law enough to do it even if it wasn't well-paid. A lot of people can't say that.

Look, everyone is accountable all day long for the decision they make. This idea that unless they get fucked on loans they aren't going to be accountable is really, really, stupid. Their already fucked because they have low paid jobs and bad income to debt ratio.

You can always make that dumbass argument. "Well if prisoners don't have to work for 22 cents an hour, how are they going to be punished?" How about because their in prison? The kids that are debt free, are debt fucking free. They don't need to see those in debt punished to be proud the decision their parents basically made for them.

This is the same argument for low capital gains tax. "How are we going to reward investment unless we give it preferential tax treatment?" How about all the fucking returns on their investment? Isn't that a reward?

The idea that people will stop investing because of the tax rate is retarded. Just like the idea that people are going to go into debt because they can get a plan to remain solvent when they have other options. These things are their own reward. They don't need to be further incentivized to occur.

[Patriam1066]

I’m cool with you serving in the military for 8 years for loan forgiveness. The bottom line is student loan debt, obesity, diabetes, etc, all of these are individual mistakes that get portrayed as a collective problem. Mormons Persians jews ans Hindus don’t have these problems. It’s your culture bud. Go to church and ask God to make you believe in chauvinism and success as your ancestors once did. That’s how dad did it. That’s how America does it

[JurisDictum]

I just want to point out. A lot of you guys get your idea of the modern college campus from media videos of student in one of the top 20 US colleges. In this privilege epicenters -- safe zones and banning offensive speech is the norm.

Because these kids are overwhelming rich and have no other problems. This is the time in their life where they delve deep into identity issues and intersectionality and talk about how the Rich LGBT students are short changed compared to the rich white cis-generded students...

This is very far removed from a person going to University of (insert state). These campuses...there not any god damn different then when you went there. Just go down to your local state college in sit in a few classrooms...

None of this crap you saw on infowars videos is occurring there. It's just people doing course material..much of which hasn't changed much! It's literally the same damn course as 20 years ago in political theory....in yet were supposed to believe "we aren't learning what we used to."

Wrong. There is no difference. This is just big finance and corporate America's chance to:

1) blame student majors for shit opportunity

2) get rid of pesky humanities majors that teach people how to think, question and argue.

3) get more math and science majors that know just enough to run the current system but not enough to question it.

What % of college student major in identity-politics oriented subjects? I'm guessing its low and doesn't begin to explain the problem. And despite popular belief...20-somethings are bit too old to be brainwashed by a few years of college classes about race and gender...they believed that shit going in.

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by ibetweenk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He's right you can get your loans forgiven in the military. You haven't smoked marijuana more than once in your life, right?

I did consider the military...and this why I stopped considering it.

It's not a problem for me to just stop smoking pot. But I can't undo my conviction at 24 for growing it. As far as their concerned, you could never be trusted to be in the military having pot-related crimes.

It's also still highly taboo to be anything but 100% straight in the military.

[Patriam1066]

JD I wish I could’ve been your father. You would’ve had college paid for and I would’ve murdered you before I let you become a parasite like a lawyer. You would’ve been a trauma surgeon. Alas, it can never be. But Jesus is your father. You need only submit and serve

[Patriam1066]

The military thing was a joke dude you couldn’t do physical labor, that’s obvious. You’d cry the first time you broke a toenail