Since 1978: In 1978 I paid $210 per semester at a state university and perhaps $100 a semester if I bought all my books new. My 2 bedroom house rented for $125 a month and a part-time...

PeterS

In 1978 I paid $210 per semester at a state university and perhaps $100 a semester if I bought all my books new. My 2 bedroom house rented for $125 a month and a part-time job working in a restaurant paid for all of that.

What's changed is that we've had three Republican tax cuts, cuts to education from state and federal governments, and minimum wage increases that are 5 percent below 1978 levels. Now the question is why haven't all those tax cuts trickled down as promised by supply-side economics? Strange don't you think?

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

PeterS wrote:

In 1978 I paid $210 per semester at a state univer... (show quote)

It is unfortunate that there have been no Democrat presidents, Senates or Houses since 1978....

Shame on the Republican Party for squandering forty years of complete and unchallenged control of the government...

DaWg44

When I started college in 1966, I was paying $310.00/quarter. I got my college career interrupted by the Government but by the time I graduated, I was paying $1,330.00/quarter. I had no student loan.

I can still remember some Democrat Presidents in PeterS’s time frame. One in particular since my mother, his mother, & his wife were friends, Jimmy Carter. I believe there was a Clinton crime family & Obama crime family in office for a few years.

There are a lot of reasons tuition has gone up, student loans are a major culprit. Parents agreeing to pay it, is one. Staffing is another, there were two Deans when I started college, one for men, one for women. There must be 10 or more now.

I can say one thing for sure, college educations don’t mean diddly now. I started hiring tech school graduates over college graduates twenty years ago, paying for college for them if they wanted or needed more education in technology to progress in their chosen field. That was the smartest move I ever made.

PeterS

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

It is unfortunate that there have been no Democrat presidents, Senates or Houses since 1978....

Shame on the Republican Party for squandering forty years of complete and unchallenged control of the government...

There have been no democrats cutting taxes, creating huge amounts of debt, and causing the government to stop funding universities as they once did. Nor did they promise that those tax cuts would trickle down and create untold wealth for the middle class--which they clearly have not. So if they don't create wealth at the middle then what is the purpose of the tax cuts...to create wealth at the top? Well, clearly when you look at the top one percent that exactly what they did...

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

PeterS wrote:

There have been no democrats cutting taxes, creating huge amounts of debt, and causing the government to stop funding universities as they once did. Nor did they promise that those tax cuts would trickle down and create untold wealth for the middle class--which they clearly have not. So if they don't create wealth at the middle then what is the purpose of the tax cuts...to create wealth at the top? Well, clearly when you look at the top one percent that exactly what they did...

Democrats never created debt?
Seems to me that a certain POTUS managed to more than double the national debt...

Universities should recieve federal funding for certain majors...

Raising taxes helped the middle class?

Trickle down has always been a poor philosophy in my opinion...

The purpose and the results of tax cuts may not always be the same... I personally felt that it could have been handled differently... Perhaps with more bipartisan support it would have been...

Rose42

In 1978 if children fought teachers let them settle it themselves making sure it didn't get out of hand. No suspensions. There were playgrounds with roundabouts, seesaws and monkey bars. Boys and some girls played with toy guns and weren't barred from bringing them to school or suspended for drawing a picture of a gun. Families ate together. Neighbors helped each other and didn't snitch. Police weren't called unless they were really needed People were either male or female - there was no confusion. Young children weren't exposed to the homosexual agenda. There were no sanctioned pornographic parades called 'p***e' parades. Women didn't feel offended or violated by locker room talk. People had dogs without the animal rights insane legislation. They didn't freak out if animals got loose and got in a fight because they knew dogs acted like dogs.

People didn't have the victim mindset they do today nor did they think they had a right to not be offended.

There is so much more. None of this is progress. We are moving backwards not forward.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

It is unfortunate that there have been no Democrat presidents, Senates or Houses since 1978....

Shame on the Republican Party for squandering forty years of complete and unchallenged control of the government...

Don't forget CD we are still paying for Bush's war.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Rose42 wrote:

In 1978 if children fought teachers let them settl... (show quote)

In what world was that?

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

DaWg44 wrote:

When I started college in 1966, I was paying $310.... (show quote)

Part of the increase in college costs is that so many useless but mandatory politically correct courses are part of the liberal arts agenda. Another is that foollish departments and staff are also required to provide services for small groups of special people. I am not referring to people with disabilities, but special remedial courses for those whose education is not good enough to admit to college in the first place, and the less than 3% of the population that is same sex attracted or think they are the opposite sex from their genetic sex. Plus colleges are providing non educational services they should not have been required to provide.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Bad Bob wrote:

Don't forget CD we are still paying for Bush's war.

If only there were a president willing to pull out permanently

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

PeterS wrote:

In 1978 I paid $210 per semester at a state univer... (show quote)

I did some quick totals and found that since 1978, we have had 22 years under Republican presidents vs. 18 under Democrats, while the House has been 22 years under Dems and 18 under Repubs and the Senate even. This may be slightly off but it seems any you should blame assign evenly.

TrueAmerican

PeterS wrote:

In 1978 I paid $210 per semester at a state univer... (show quote)

Jealous ??????

okie don

DaWg44 wrote:

When I started college in 1966, I was paying $310.... (show quote)

My daughter got her BS degree and is saddled with a big Govt Student loan. She went to a Yech School and now is an X-Ray Technician doing good.
So, I hear ya .

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

PeterS wrote:

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Gee, I'm so jealous, who can I rob today?

GmanTerry

Bad Bob wrote:

In what world was that?

The world I grew up in is the one she is speaking of. That was America before the Democrats changed it. THIS country is NOT the one I grew up in. I am so fortunate to have grown up in the real America before it was fundamentally changed.

Semper Fi