It seems to me that the milenials are looking at t
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Posted On: 02/02/2016 1:46:17 PM
Re: scoobysteve #240
It seems to me that the milenials are looking at their near term pain and not looking at the overall situation.
Basic facts about college:
1) We send way too many children to college. Making it cheaper or easier to get in will only make that problem worse.
2) Some of our children are not viewing college education as an investment. This results in children pursuing degrees in fields that will not pay enough to justify the huge expense. No matter who pays that expense, it is still an expense and some degrees are simply not worth it.
3) The government has solid record on delivering poor quality products at an exorbitant price and sticking the tax payers with the bill. Look at how much we pay for public education and what do we get? Crap. Our kids are not competitive with their peers in other 1st world nations and many 3rd world nations. Our military spends outrageous amounts of money simply to remain competitive. Yes they are the best, but, if you look at what we have to pay for this military superiority compared to the next best military, i would say we are being ripped off. (This is not a knock on our soldiers. This is knock on our government's ability to negotiate the price of our weapons systems. Our soldiers are the best, bar none.) Let's also look at some of their feeble attempts at health care. We have the VA system, the Medicare system, the Medicaid system and the new and improved Obamacare system. Compare the efficiency and "Return on Investment (ROI) of those programs with what Aetna delivers for me and my family. It seems no matter what they try, the government does a really bad job at providing services. So, the last thing I want them doing is providing any thing else. in fact, I would love to see them forced out of the medical and education business. We can't take any more of their "help".
I live in California (but my heart is in Colorado still). If you take the total dollars California spends on educating K-12 kids ($77B) and divide it by the number of kids served(4M), it comes out to roughly $19k/kid. I happen to send my kids to a local private school which provides a far superior education at just $15k/kid. Clearly, California should end their monopoly on education, scrap their monstrosity of an education system, provide vouchers for children in the K-12 age group and let the existing schools go charter. Let parents have a choice on where to send their children. Let schools compete for those kids and perhaps we will see much needed improvement. Evidence for this is scattered throughout the country with the most vivid examples in DC and New Orleans. The kids in the poor schools in these towns started getting the quality education they deserve and the cost to the state was less.
Again, we need to reduce the impact of the government on our lives. If they start paying for everyone's college, who knows how bad the schools will become.
JMHO.
Basic facts about college:
1) We send way too many children to college. Making it cheaper or easier to get in will only make that problem worse.
2) Some of our children are not viewing college education as an investment. This results in children pursuing degrees in fields that will not pay enough to justify the huge expense. No matter who pays that expense, it is still an expense and some degrees are simply not worth it.
3) The government has solid record on delivering poor quality products at an exorbitant price and sticking the tax payers with the bill. Look at how much we pay for public education and what do we get? Crap. Our kids are not competitive with their peers in other 1st world nations and many 3rd world nations. Our military spends outrageous amounts of money simply to remain competitive. Yes they are the best, but, if you look at what we have to pay for this military superiority compared to the next best military, i would say we are being ripped off. (This is not a knock on our soldiers. This is knock on our government's ability to negotiate the price of our weapons systems. Our soldiers are the best, bar none.) Let's also look at some of their feeble attempts at health care. We have the VA system, the Medicare system, the Medicaid system and the new and improved Obamacare system. Compare the efficiency and "Return on Investment (ROI) of those programs with what Aetna delivers for me and my family. It seems no matter what they try, the government does a really bad job at providing services. So, the last thing I want them doing is providing any thing else. in fact, I would love to see them forced out of the medical and education business. We can't take any more of their "help".
I live in California (but my heart is in Colorado still). If you take the total dollars California spends on educating K-12 kids ($77B) and divide it by the number of kids served(4M), it comes out to roughly $19k/kid. I happen to send my kids to a local private school which provides a far superior education at just $15k/kid. Clearly, California should end their monopoly on education, scrap their monstrosity of an education system, provide vouchers for children in the K-12 age group and let the existing schools go charter. Let parents have a choice on where to send their children. Let schools compete for those kids and perhaps we will see much needed improvement. Evidence for this is scattered throughout the country with the most vivid examples in DC and New Orleans. The kids in the poor schools in these towns started getting the quality education they deserve and the cost to the state was less.
Again, we need to reduce the impact of the government on our lives. If they start paying for everyone's college, who knows how bad the schools will become.
JMHO.
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