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ChrisLA says:
"For whatever the reason internet is filled with bunch of 20somethings that have not lived a life and think they know the liberal answer to everything because they can write a post on the internet. Competition requires competitors, otherwise it might as well be called monopoly."

Wow, you really should do better with your insults and insinuations. There are other conservatives on this board who do it much better than you.

My actual age is 41. IRL I get mistaken for mid to early 30's all the time. I haven't been mistaken for a twentysomething since I was in my mid-thirties. I guess working with 18-25 year olds keeps me young. Lol!

Last time I checked, and I help people to get into colleges all the time as part of my work with 18-25 year olds, there is fierce competition in higher education. I finished my latest master's degree almost 6 years ago. The choices are so vast that it is difficult to choose. Public institutions compete with private institutions. Public institutions compete with each other as private institutions compete amongst themselves. In point of fact you can argue that costs have increased as choices have multiplied and private institutions gain market share. The facts show this. Is there a true cause and effect here? I think that's an interesting question to pursue as you make the assumption that somehow by eliminating public funding for all levels of education, privatizing all levels of education, and allowing comptition in the marketplace to pick the winners and the losers, you get lower costs and better quality. Right now the data doesn't support your hypthesis.

marcus says

If schools were competitive in ways you suggest

That was someone else not me. I just think "Public" Unions are a bad idea in general. In particular within bankrupt nations/states. Also, I think a lot of the problem is not necessarily the lower level public employees. There are fat cats in Unions too and the 'already retired' who are living large at your expense as well was that of tax payers.

I hear you about "finding yourself on the street" and no I'm not a engineer by degree. I'm a lowly biologist - picked up several SW Dev languages AFTER the dot-com bust. I'm now a bioinformatics scientist. My title is that of a 3rd level PhD yet I've only a BS. I don't know anyone in my shoes. Given what I've seen in biotechnology and my age I expect my career to end at age 45 - or maybe sooner given an unexpected layoff.

Maybe I'll buy a subway sandwich shop for my next career if I can save up enough dough. :)

As an aside, I'd like to nominate UTI for having the most unfortunate acronym for a university. Lol! :-)

UTI

I hope they subsidize cranberry juice.