JoeB131
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And again, they create programs because they know Uncle Sam will loan the money to the students, so they don't have to be very fiscally smart. Without the easy federal student loans, they would have to cut costs or college would become the playground of the nation's wealthy elite, and probably mostly white male. While you might prefer that, a lot of people don't.
Don't blame student loans. They aren't the problem.
The problem is that we don't directly subsidize education.
Going back to my own example of UIC. When I went there in 1985, tuition was about 400 a quarter with about 150 in fees. (Half of which went to subsidize the Stumps in the Athletic programs.) Adjusting for inflation, that would be about 1425 a quarter or about 4275 a year. Today, UIC in state tuition is 15,472. Why? Part of the reason is that the State of Illinois no longer subsidizes it's university system the way it used to. Part of the reason is because UIC wants to get those classier students, so they invest a lot in amenities.
when it was first conceived, UIC was seen as the working class, inner city alternative to Urbana. Not so much anymore.
Sure, academic scholarships are great, now why do you think there are so few of them? Maybe it's because even fewer people care about them than want to watch women's sports. You know that's the problem, right? No one cares if a college cranks out top graduates. Haven't you figured that out yet? Launch a crusade to get people to demand fewer athletic scholarships and more academic scholarships instead of bellyaching on a debate board when people want girls to compete in physical sports against other girls and let us know how it goes. The fact that you haven't done it yet tells me that you know it would go precisely nowhere. Until people care more about the number of qualified computer scientists graduating than the number of national football titles a college holds, it's not going to change.
Nobody "wants" to watch women's sports. If Title IX didn't exist, neither would they.
Right, some people like to their daughters and granddaughters compete in sports against other girls, and you don't like it. Well, life isn't fair. Suck it up and live with it. And while you're at it, maybe you should spend a little more time enjoying what you have instead of constantly yammering on about how much you don't care about women playing sports and revealing that it ticks you off when other people do.
I don't have to. History is on my side. Just like minorities, women and gays have gained acceptance over the objections of bigots like you, so will trans people.
Wow, you do love you some projection, don't you? That's much closer to your vision than mine. Obviously, you haven't paid a lick of attention to anything I've written, so what you think will never match reality. You're so far gone into your faith that you can't even see people as individuals anymore, only members of groups. Makes it easier to demonize them, I know.
When you give a guy like Mormon Bob as much grief for saying he wants to execute women who have abortions as you give me for saying that transwomen should be allowed to compete, then you can get back to me.
Please do quote a lynch mob that claimed whoever they were lynching was competing unfairly because of biological differences. Knowing you can't, what's going to be your next excuse? See, you and I both know there's no comparison and you're only flinging it against the wall, hoping desperately it will stick.
Well, there was that whole lynch mob in VA where they claimed the slut who had hookups was the victim of an evil Tranny.