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Economics isn't politcally correct (as if I was supposed to give a fuck about pc bullshit anyways) oh, and petitions are worthless and any bleeding heart dumb enough to think that a piece of paper with a few signatures on it will make a difference needs to check back into reality.
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Education should be paid for by society as a whole, not the individual who wants to educated, because it is an investment into the common good - an educated populace is not only beneficial on an individual level, but also when it comes to making decisions in the community and for business, since it expands the pool for advanced jobs. Indeed, the only ones to whom public education is undesirable are the conmen and demagogues who want the people stupid and gullible, and thus easier to exploit.
Society benefits from an educated population. Society should therefore pay for said education.
If petitions are so worthless, why are you so enraged about them, honey?
Petitions seldom are pieces of paper any more, but Internet pages, with tens of thousands of signatures.
Girl: "Excuse me, would you mind signing this petition to end college tuition?"
Man: "That depends, who's going to pay for your "free" college?"
Girl: "In this part of Britain? Hull City Council. It's only Universities here in the UK where tuition fees apply. "
Me: "You haven't taken Geography, yet, have you?"
Man: "Geography? What's that? "
That petition was to end college tuition fees in the US. As my country proves, Geo-politics is Correct.
As a former economics major: You're an idiot.
Government sponsored college is workable, and has been demonstrated in other countries. Where do you think Pell Grants and the like come from? There is nothing economically unsound about the government providing education. After all, it works for K-12, doesn't it? Or are you opposed to that as well? Whether or not you think education is a right, society benefits from an educated populace. Further, people with proper education and/or training are of more benefit to the economy than unskilled labor. Supporting vocational programs and higher education is of net benefit to the economy, not net loss.
Real adorable touch there having the black man in your comic scoff at free education, what with the well-known trend of denying black students loans out of hand and being bamboozled into scholarships that more closely resemble indentured servitude where they have no time for an after-school job and no right to profit off their own image or achievements while being shuffled into joke classes that are held against them and overall being dismissed as "affirmative action" when they graduate. Just adorable.
Education is an investment not only in an individual's future but that of the entire economy in which they participate. "Reaganomics" would have you believe that a single successful businessman props up the entire country in ways that somehow outstrip the 99% as long as nobody gets between them and their money. A person trying to invoke the injustice of many profiting from the individual achievements of one should know the hypocrisy of an economy that benefits from the individual without investing in them. A country that advertises itself to the world as the home of brilliant minds and successful business should understand that. A culture that supposedly exalts individual achievement and the idea that one can climb to the top from literally nothing but their own wits shouldn't grease the ladder.
We could cut out worthless and unnecessary military programs which give us weapons which don't work. We'd have enough for college tuition and free health care. I mean, I'm a military veteran and I don't see the need for the worthless F-35 when all the current fighter aircraft work well. Nor do I see the need for a new $17 billion aircraft carrier named after a president who was neither a military leader nor even elected to office.
Girl: "Excuse me, would you mind signing this petition to end college tuition?"
I mean, come on. You don't need to know squat about economics or government to answer the question.
>check back into reality.
Fedorable-Art implying that he lives in the real world
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Somebody doesn't understand petitions.
And America's case is usually about affordable tuition, not free, with subsudies for the worthy but financially unable. This is a concern in Canada to, over the last fifteen years government has forced tuition and course costs up, then cut grants and loans. Guess what this rise in costs and grant cuts was preceded by? Rich kids unable to academically compete with others, therefore they had to cut the others out. Yeah that shit goes on here.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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