Comments on: More on the Cost of College

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:01:23 +0000

Furthering your education is a rewarding endeavor, both financially and spiritually. Unfortunately, there is financial help for many college costs such as tuition and living quarters but no help for College Textbooks.
I have resorted to buying older edition cheap textbooks when available and also have been purchasing International Edition textbooks that are much cheaper on sites such as http://www.WholesaleCollegeTextooks.com. International textbooks are legal in the US but the professors frown on them. I wish the government would regulate the prices and profit on textbooks and make them more accessible to students.

By: waymad

waymad — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:45:09 +0000

It's worth taking a look at what Spengler has to say, here and here on the potential First Lady, in Asia Times online. An angry lady......

By: Tribal Elder

Tribal Elder — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:40:30 +0000

But capped tuition wouldn’t generate the substantial raise Mrs. Obama’s got following Mr. O’s election to the Senate. Her value to the University of Chicago more than doubled.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:24:03 +0000

Surprised Mrs. Obama hasn’t proposed the obvious solution: goverment control of tuition costs.

By: dave smith

dave smith — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:06:14 +0000

And everyone thought Hillary was a scary first lady.

By: happyjuggler0

happyjuggler0 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:44:42 +0000

Going $200,000 (or whatever) into debt to get a $30,000 (or whatever) year job makes about as much sense as hiring Michael Jordan to tutor your 5 year old daughter in basketball. It is a massive waste of resources, you can do about as much good with radically less cost by hiring someone (or some school) far less prestigious, or even forgoing the education for that matter.

By: Sameer Parekh

Sameer Parekh — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:28:22 +0000

I have to just second M Hodak — great analogy. I think I will use that one myself.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:26:33 +0000

It is pretty obvious, why. She is an Affirmative-Action Admit.

By: M. Hodak

M. Hodak — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:05:49 +0000

Great analogy.

BTW – we’re quickly arriving at the point–without any government program–where a poor, smart kid less likely to graduate from an Ivy league school with debt than an upper middle-class kid. The poor kid would actually have to borrow to pay the $6,000 state tuition, etc. whereas an Ivy league school would likely fund their entire education–room, board, and supplies–from their burgeoning endowment.