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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:15 PM
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Education expert on CNN: Tuition crisis can be solved with individual fundraising and ... microloans
Edited on Sat Mar-06-10 03:17 PM by Bozita
Latina woman seemed as clueless as a doorknob. She was on along with a Latino guy who said he found her tips helpful.

After seeing this, I think I need help.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:21 PM
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1. Fundraising?
So families are supposed to have bake sales to come up with tuition money?

Did this woman give suggestions on what kindof fundraising would work? Schools around here do all kinds of fundraising - candy, magazines, wrapping paper, auction nights, etc. Is this the kind of thing she expects families to do?
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:27 PM
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4. Yes. All of the above *plus* selling pieces of your graduation gown
Where does CNN find these people?
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:23 PM
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2. let the military have a few bake sales.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:25 PM
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3. Increased taxes is a form of fundraising - its just not voluntary
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 07:23 PM
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11. Sure it is. When you choose not to have a job.
Oh, wait... wrong site. :hide:
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:57 PM
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16. And your point is? nt
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:29 PM
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5. Yes - because funding wars is far more important than teaching our children
:wtf:
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:42 PM
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6. Insane
Tuition has gone up 3X faster than income since 1982. Where is the money supposed to come from?
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 07:25 PM
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12. Where's the money going is a better question.
I'm betting upper management.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:56 PM
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15. But...but...universities are allowed to charge whatever they
want.....because it's their business. :sarcasm:

This is something I hear from a righti at work...
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 04:03 PM
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7. Perhaps holding signs at freeway ramps reading,
Impoverished Student
Will Party For Money!

That makes just about as much sense. Although, I did know a fellow English major who paid for her college, through a PhD, as a call girl. A very attractive, highly-paid one too. She was a friend of mine. She didn't find it to be a moral conflict for her. I accepted her choice in the matter.

N.B.: This was in 1969-75. I lost touch with her, though, so I don't know how her life turned out. She did get the PhD, though.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:22 PM
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8. The solution is simple:
Keep poor riff-raff out of college altogether. They're what mops and brooms were made for.

:sarcasm: in case anyone really wondered.

Seriously, though, from the comments on the news blogs, this is what a lot of the uberconservatives think. Even those who are poor themselves. Freakin' idiots.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:44 PM
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9. I saw that too, I hope Jon Stewart picks up on that segment.
It was almost comedic to begin with. He (or Colbert) could do wonders with that type of raw material.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:58 PM
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10. Another CNN education *expert* said teacher unions are responsible for the tuition crisis
This was at ~ 5:15pm ET.

Where does CNN find these people?
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:04 PM
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13. I saw this one, too. They need some REAL education...
...experts, not people paid to spin. That's all any of them did...spin.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:54 PM
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14. CNN is more dangerous than Faux. nt
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 09:08 PM
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17. CNN: Compromised Network Nonsense = Dead Journalism n/t
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 09:20 PM
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18. Microloans are the latest corporatist scam to make more debt slaves.
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 09:47 PM
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19. The solution to the Tuition crisis is to pay more money? (microloans)
The solution is to tax the rich. Tax them until they are so small I can drag them to the bathroom and drown them in the bathtub.
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