I hope this will make many of the readers here, too many of whom come from social sciences, really mad.
I love Obama. I think he is a wonderful president. I think he has done everything right until now, except for one thing: His complaining about university tuition being too high during the state of the union was absolutely wrong.
The problem is that stupid students and their parents pay for degrees such as psychology and exercise science in a market with 20% unemployment for graduates instead of computational science related studies where 80% of the jobs are. The problem is a government that subsidizes students in useless fields by giving them too long a period for returning their loans.
Paying for someone to go to a community college where they would teach you the basics you should have learned in our ``wonderful'' No-Child-Left-Behind-Somalia high schools system is throwing bad money after bad. We need advanced skills to compete in the world, not Calc 101 that should have been studied in tenth grade.
Of course Republicans solution is way nuttier: they want to cut all expanses by gov, pray for businesses to create something out of nothing, such as figure out new ways to get MORE healthcare money out of poor and sick people and into the pockets of HMO stock holders, and let those that fall off a cliff live in the streets or die. Oh. Newt wants us to teach kids how to sweep floor. Are we supposed to export the dirt to China?
Our universities are STILL (but not for much longer) the best in the world in computational science, engineering, and natural sciences. If you are studying engineering or science you will be able to pay back. If not: its your own damn fault.
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