Until the rest of west follows Scotland's lead and offers government paid college education, notice I'm NOT including room and board, just like we do with elementary and high school today, we will continue to loose our place in the the competitive world of the future.
Yeah, okay tax payers, you may chime in with the same argument as the citizens of early America's past, "Why should tax payers pay for educating the poor?"
Educated people generate much more tax every year of their lives.
The state spends to get more back.
The poor also have an equal right to education and the taxpayers make a profit on the deal.
When it comes time for you to retire, where do you think your social security payments are going to come from. Certainly not from the uneducated folks standing on the street corner because they saw no hope of getting a higher education.
Sorry, my hopeless personal crusade.
I paid for my education. I worked my arse off while going to college. Is everything supposed to be provided by our Government? I thought we were responsible?
Unfortunately in todays job market I know many college graduates that can't get a job commensurate to their education. They are working as Waiters, Waitresses
etc. Where is all the money coming from that the Govt. hands out? Yep....taxpayers. We are not a nanny state yet. It's coming, but I don't know where the monitory resources will be coming from.
College tuition is ridiculously high. I have no idea why. This country has lost its' manufacturing base which always supplied a good wage to those educated and un-educated.
I've also noticed recently that companies such as Bank America etc. are laying off and/or dropping employees to part time because of health care costs. The service industry
is going to be our chief private employer....next to the Govt. BTW an example......in Detroit there are I believe 64 govt. related jobs to every one job in the private sector.
DUH! Who pays the govt. employees? And whose money pays a Govt. employees taxes? Easycore I believe in what you do......the paradigm needs to change.
Private employers and employees can't fund everything. We do need to educate for sure, someone has to pay the bills and quit printing money that makes our currency
even less valued. This is not a political statement on my part I'm just asking where all the money will come from. Are we just going to continue to print more money
and devalue its'net worth? I hope not. And I hope colleges decide to drop needless costs that will drop the tuition so that everyone can attend at a reasonable cost.