(July 10, 2013 at 5:02 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Yeah, Agenda, I'm callin' bullshit on the "college education is inferior" claims. Our college education is actually some of the best in the world. Our universities are still the best of the best. Why do you think students from all over the world come to the US for advanced education?
No, our problem is not our colleges. Our problem is our public education system, which has been suffering over the last 15 years due to constant cutbacks because of Republican assholes who want to put more emphasis on religiously-backed private schools.
Sure public education is suffering, but as old as I am, I can tell you it started long before 15 years ago. Moreso when Regan unwittingly gutted the power of the middle class and gave it to big business, with the start of "deregulation".
People work more for less and less, our pay gap is huge, our cost of living is exploding with wages not keeping up. Combine that with 30 years of union busting, both public and private, sure, schools are going to suffer.
All aspects of our middle class and working poor are being affected and big money bullies are the ones doing it. If most billionaires thought like Nick Hanour and most companies were run like Costco, we would not be in this mess.
