education costs
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At least they're allowed to drill. That is pretty smart.
"Don't drill in Alaska... a caribou may have to walk around a drill!"
They own their own oil. They use the profits to give their people free education and health care. I don't know why they would need a big military.
In the information age, it would make sense to have smart people around to keep Canada and the US at the leading edge. But no, we make it hard for our youth to be anything but burger flippers. The dumbing down of our population has been a sounding success.
Sort of. More to the point it is how the enormous sums of tax dollars are spent. As well as high wages there are far too many administrators.
Yep, bureaucracy is the big killer in pretty well all aspects of our lives. :smile:
At Nipissing U and Canadore College, there are more teaching staff off on long-term sick leave than there are instructing.
That's probably only a function of time before that changes.
Norway has a number of foreign joint venture players as well. They really don't "own" their oil in a manner that is different than Canada or the US.
Between the provincial and federal gvts (in Canada), post secondary education is subsidized to the tune of 75+% of the actual cost. I am finding it really difficult to believe the argument that it is too expensive.... Next time you are around a Uni campus, take a drive around the parking lots and pay attention to the # and quality of cars there. Hell, I would bet that you wouldn't find anyone without am expensive cell phone (with expensive data package).
If you think that the cost of an education is too high; the cost of ignorance is a helluva lot more.
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Proud of you.
You know that earning something means more than just being handed it. NYC tried that free education thing back in the hippie days, the concept died out with them after clogging up the system with unqualified individuals.
Mes Amis,
It's too damn late to save most of this generation of kids. They are lost. The old order is coming to an end. Something new will have to rise from the flames. That is where hope lies. I am not alone:
"The world system is breaking down.
In America:
1. The lower education/union bubble
2. The higher education bubble
3. The real estate bubble
4. Not enough oil production
5. Drug Prohibition is being recognized as a failure
6. Insufficient food production to support the world system.
7. The Green bubble
8. Unsustainable Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
9. The Democrat party is near a collapse point. Wisconsin is the leading indicator
10. etc
Europe - similar to the above without oil resources plus a Muslim problem.
In the Middle East:
1. Islam is breaking down due to the Internet/cell phones
2. It will not go quietly
3. Muslim Brotherhood etc.
4. Not enough food production
5. Dictators R us
6. etc.
China
1. Food
2. The Jasmine Revolution
3. Internet/cell phones - see Jasmine Revolution
4. One Party rule - like the Democrats in America only worse
India - I'm going to have to study more. Probably much of the above plus an Islam problem going back at least 500 years only partially resolved with the India/Pakistan partition.
No doubt much more.
The world system is breaking down. Much of the old system that we have been carrying is unsupportable. It will be a better system once the old order is gone. The old order will not go without a fight.
Texas is designing a degree system that will cost the student $10,000. I don't see why the cost shouldn't be more on the order of $2,000. We have the Internet."
Classical Values
It's too damn late to save most of this generation of kids. They are lost. The old order is coming to an end. Something new will have to rise from the flames. That is where hope lies. I am not alone:
"The world system is breaking down.
In America:
1. The lower education/union bubble
2. The higher education bubble
3. The real estate bubble
4. Not enough oil production
5. Drug Prohibition is being recognized as a failure
6. Insufficient food production to support the world system.
7. The Green bubble
8. Unsustainable Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
9. The Democrat party is near a collapse point. Wisconsin is the leading indicator
10. etc
Europe - similar to the above without oil resources plus a Muslim problem.
In the Middle East:
1. Islam is breaking down due to the Internet/cell phones
2. It will not go quietly
3. Muslim Brotherhood etc.
4. Not enough food production
5. Dictators R us
6. etc.
China
1. Food
2. The Jasmine Revolution
3. Internet/cell phones - see Jasmine Revolution
4. One Party rule - like the Democrats in America only worse
India - I'm going to have to study more. Probably much of the above plus an Islam problem going back at least 500 years only partially resolved with the India/Pakistan partition.
No doubt much more.
The world system is breaking down. Much of the old system that we have been carrying is unsupportable. It will be a better system once the old order is gone. The old order will not go without a fight.
Texas is designing a degree system that will cost the student $10,000. I don't see why the cost shouldn't be more on the order of $2,000. We have the Internet."
Classical Values