Agreed. But you don’t get there by “cancelling” the debt of people who willingly took it on. You fix the crisis by:
1. Cutting DEI waste and administrative bureaucracy. Higher education is spending more on bureaucracy than on teaching. At public 4-year schools in 2010, 32% of expenses were for instruction. In 2021, instructional spending dropped to just 27%.
https://t.co/i9ei91JZru
At private schools, spending on administrative costs was also higher than instruction. This is a problem: tuition is rising, but schools are spending less and less on actually *teaching* our kids. Yale even has a 1:1 administrator to undergraduate ratio — each student gets their own bureaucrat.
https://t.co/uMusvQ3DbY
2. Incentivizing students to major in meaningful, economically sound degrees that are worth the return on investment. A recent study estimates that almost 1/3 of bachelor’s degree programs yield a negative return on investment, meaning that students are worse off financially.
https://t.co/lcYaTIwf0Y
3. Holding large taxpayer-funded institutions accountable for the tremendous tax burden of our current system would arguably fix a lot. Between 1980 and 2020, the average price of tuition, fees, room, and board for an undergraduate degree increased by nearly 180%. Why? The more loans and grant aid a college student and their family get, the more they are willing to pay for tuition —allowing colleges to set higher rates of tuition. It’s a perverse cycle. “Cancelling” student loan debt doesn’t realign incentives and address the root cause of ballooning college costs.
https://t.co/A3iPD9yHil
Probably the most important story happening right now has gotten virtually no attention. So let’s give it attention.
Saudi Arabia and Iran— Sunni & Shiite Muslim— are sworn enemies, yet China just brokered a peace deal between them. China.
But wait there’s more
Saudi Arabia is talking about settling their oil trades in the Yuan, replacing the dollar. This is in spite of being allied with the US.
But I’m not done yet.
There is also discussion of Saudi Arabia and Iran joining the BRICS alliance.
-Brazil
-Russia
-India
-China
-South Africa
“But Josie what are the consequences of that?”
That would mean all of the major oil producing countries in the world would be part of the same alliance. These countries also make up half of the global population. And I imagine there would be a level of protection safeguarding Iran from American invasion.
Most apparent, there is no need or room for the US in this new boys club. There is no seat at the table of this super alliance.
For those who cannot see the catastrophe The Deep State has made of our country, our values, and our global status, who take our Bill of Rights for granted, spend all the time and resources prosecuting political dissenters, and victimize themselves over sins they never experienced because they have it so damn good they have to sit there and make up ways to self exploit — I just don’t think there is any saving these people.
@AmericanAir Not sure what that'll do. We've been jumping through hoops since Friday. Apparently, the person we filed a claim with night of didn't file it. Different people giving us various pieces of information. Just wild you guys lose our shit and then won't locate it or reimburse us.
@AmericanAir Hey American Airlines. What kind of shit is this? You lose mine and my coworkers luggage and you say you won't reimburse us because we didn't file a claim? We followed the procedure... I'm sorry you have incompetent workers.
@AmericanAir Hey American Airlines. What kind of shit is this? You lose mine and my coworkers luggage and you say you won't reimburse us because we didn't file a claim? We followed the procedure... I'm sorry you have incompetent workers.
I know I'm yelling into the void, but PSA
If you have something you never want to see again... check it on a flight with @AmericanAir . Just make sure there's nothing valuable... once they lose your shit they also won't pay for it. #AmericanAirlines#ConAir#FuckAmericanAirlines
Q: Are YOU going to hold up this spending bill?
A: Leadership knows the deadlines. It is all on them. THEY fail every year to meet the deadline. Then they blame conservatives for not rubber stamping a $1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page spending bill.