3 takeaways from the 2022 election

[Billo_Really]

Shmuck! They have off-shore accounts.
You do know your baggage is not checked when you fly your private jet back to the US from a foreign country.

I'm sorry, I was forced to sell my Gulfstream V!

 

[bripat9643]

The GOP ain't gonna do shit in office! That's their MO.

That's 100 times better than what Dims do in office.

 

[Billo_Really]

That's 100 times better than what Dims do in office.

No, the Dems actually did some things!

 

[bripat9643]

No, the Dems actually did some things!

Yeah, they blew up the debt, sent inflation soaring, opened the floodgates to illegal aliens, let criminals run wild, got chased out of Afghanistan and doubled the price of gas

 

[Billo_Really]

Yeah, they blew up the debt, sent inflation soaring, opened the floodgates to illegal aliens, let criminals run wild, got chased out of Afghanistan and doubled the price of gas

What is your plan to combat crime?

...that's what I thought.

 

[Concerned American]

What does that have to do with Biden?

What does a war between two countries that we have no treaties with have to do with the US, moron? We shouldn't have sent one thin dime to that war. Obama had already given Russia the go-ahead when he didn't oppose the occupation of Crimea. Biden is laundering money and paying debts with YOUR tax dollars and you're too stupid to see it.

 

[Concerned American]

What is your plan to combat crime?

What's yours? Democrats have been total failures in their blue shithole cities.

 

[Concerned American]

You must of flunked economics,

You must HAVE flunked third grade English composition.

 

[bripat9643]

What is your plan to combat crime?

...that's what I thought.

Hire more cops. Force criminals to post cash bail.

 

[gipper]

Wow! That's a mouthful!

Is it true?

 

[gipper]

It's not a fact! There is nothing Biden could've done to avoid the war! This war is all on Putin, not Biden! Fuck!

You can’t be serious but than maybe you get all your news from the CIA controlled media, which would explain your ignorance.

 

[otto105]

Instead of colleges being held responsible for teaching students and training and placing them in jobs that pay the high costs the universities got paid, which they dumped on the students,
The taxpayers pay off this money that the universities collected in advance for "educational services" that didn't generate enough revenue to pay that investment

A college could charge $10,000 a semester for worthless class time,
The student uses a federal program to pay the university and transfer the debt to their name without paying, then tax dollars pay this which "already went to the university" for completely wasted investment.

Why not hold that university responsible for setting up a mentorship or internship program and a plan for the student/borrower to pay back the cost?

If the numbers don't add up, then go find an education program that does both, gets the degree covered and gets a job that covers the costs so it's cost effective.

The medical and teacher education programs can do this.

If military required service to get education paid for, why not medical schools like the program in Bethesda MD that covers med school in exchange for service in public health.

If the equation doesn't balance out, that means public tax dollars are used to subsidize profits by universities not creating enough wealth to make the cost of education pay for itself.

Taxpayer what?

40 years ago state universities received 50% of their revenue from state money which kept costs low.


Today just 18% is provided by states.



So….

 

[bripat9643]

Taxpayer what?

40 years ago state universities received 50% of their revenue from state money which kept costs low.


Today just 18% is provided by states.



So….

One more thing the federal government fucked up.

 

[emilynghiem]

Taxpayer what?

40 years ago state universities received 50% of their revenue from state money which kept costs low.


Today just 18% is provided by states.



So….

The more money you get subsidized from govt,
you can just keep charging more because that cost is built in
as a given grant, not earned by working to generate that money.

So if your prices rise from 20,000 to 50,000 for tuition
then "only getting 20%" funded by government
actually rises from $4,000 to $10,000

Do you see how this perpetuates a vicious cycle?

Sadly I know people who calculate their budgets and incomes
relying on the welfare money coming in from govt.
Businesses are hardly different.

As with credit, that allows faster spending without investing the
hours of labor to earn that money,
govt money distorts the perception of market value
and the work it really takes to run a household or a business.

It is better to manage such capital as loans WITH COLLATERAL
AND A BUSINESS PLAN to repay.

If you look at the nonprofit MICROLENDING groups, the way
they generate economic development is to invest loans requiring
viable business plans as part of the training, not welfare handouts.

 

[otto105]

The more money you get subsidized from govt,
you can just keep charging more because that cost is built in
as a given grant, not earned by working to generate that money.

So if your prices rise from 20,000 to 50,000 for tuition
then "only getting 20%" funded by government
actually rises from $4,000 to $10,000

Do you see how this perpetuates a vicious cycle?

Sadly I know people who calculate their budgets and incomes
relying on the welfare money coming in from govt.
Businesses are hardly different.

As with credit, that allows faster spending without investing the
hours of labor to earn that money,
govt money distorts the perception of market value
and the work it really takes to run a household or a business.

It is better to manage such capital as loans WITH COLLATERAL
AND A BUSINESS PLAN to repay.

If you look at the nonprofit MICROLENDING groups, the way
they generate economic development is to invest loans requiring
viable business plans as part of the training, not welfare handouts.

State Universities aren't businesses.

Their function is to higher educate people. The state funding is an investment in human capital.

 

[bripat9643]

State Universities aren't businesses.

Their function is to higher educate people. The state funding is an investment in human capital.

Let those students invest their own money.

 

[Billo_Really]

Is it true?

At least half; I don't know about the other.

 

[gipper]

At least half; I don't know about the other.

At least you’re not a complete duopoly partisan dupe, like so many this board.

 

[emilynghiem]

Let those students invest their own money.

^ Yes, by giving students and taxpayers a choice of funding programs, this will solve multiple problems, including
A. Liberals who want mandatory health care and "prochoice" reproductive options (like the birth control others don't believe in funding) or liberal agenda taught in schools can pay for the training and education themselves without imposing on other taxpayers of opposing beliefs

B. Teaching financial responsibility for investing in sound plans that pay back costs and or generate revenue sustainably instead of handouts

 

[bripat9643]

^ Yes, by giving students and taxpayers a choice of funding programs, this will solve multiple problems, including
A. Liberals who want mandatory health care and "prochoice" reproductive options (like the birth control others don't believe in funding) or liberal agenda taught in schools can pay for the training and education themselves without imposing on other taxpayers of opposing beliefs

B. Teaching financial responsibility for investing in sound plans that pay back costs and or generate revenue sustainably instead of handouts

Why not give the taxpayers a choice of funding programs? That will solve an abundance of problems. If they don't like how there money is being used, then can simply quit supplying it.