The News Thread

Thankfully, the federal government gave me enough money before the Army to go to college for free, per semester, and now that after the Army my college is paid for and by going off of my tax returns, I actually get to profit off of it. If I didn't have the GI bill, the Pell grant and State grant would cover my whole tuition.

Thanks for proving her point bro. Yeah, I'm also doing quite well in the same scenario as you, but I'm not blind to the systemic problem with it.

Edit: @FirePhone. I love Amazon for purchases, but I want to control my engagement with the site. I have no interest in my phone turning into the perpetual digital equivalent of the impulse rack at a checkout.
 
You dodged the entire point of the argument and instead just realized that wow "College is basically free like most countries if you go public, and if you go private you're fucked". How much did she get in her grants before her 13k income? Who knows, she never said it. I bet it was a shit ton of money.

She doesn't have a point. People in America shouldn't just have every option to them because we are American. Why did she want to go to a private school on the other side of the country, why should the government lower grants so she could save a few bucks by going to Duke? She's studying sociology, it's not like she's going to MIT for Engineering or something.

Public schools are more than adequate, especially as she's from the Northwest, and she could have actually 'profited' off of Porn instead of acting like it pays her bills when in reality she just wanted to get compensated for sex

"Middle class" my ass anyways, such a bogus term these days. I would love to see what her parents income are
 
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I'm sick of hearing about how high her bills are. You are from Washington, and you chose to go to one of the most prestigious basketball colleges in the country, and its private. Why the hell should I feel bad for you? Go to Gonzaga, get in state tuition, and have fun.

"I cannot tell you how difficult it is to hear my wealthy friends talk about all of the exciting summer plans in Greece or London they have, while I know I’m going to be working. I’m in that middle-class bind where many students find themselves. My parents make too much on paper to qualify for sufficient aid, but not enough to afford $47,000 a year. Alas, the plight of a middle-class student."

Get the fuck outta here. Go to a state school, Washington or Washington St is more than god damn good .

"Everyone is focused on my decision to perform in porn to pay my tuition. Let’s start paying attention to what got me here. Sky-high tuition bills result from a culture, from our President on down, telling every kid to go to college, regardless of their future plans or ability to graduate. And they result from schools being all-too-happy to raise prices to catch all the money flowing from the federal spigot."

Now she didn't want to do porn? What a joke. This chick really grinds my gears.

Thankfully, the federal government gave me enough money before the Army to go to college for free, per semester, and now that after the Army my college is paid for and by going off of my tax returns, I actually get to profit off of it. If I didn't have the GI bill, the Pell grant and State grant would cover my whole tuition. What else can the American government do? Jesus.

Wow! :lol: She's totally full of shit. My mom makes in the $30,000 range and I was the last of 5 kids, and was still able to find a way for college with minimum loans. In-state school is definitely the way to go. She really should just own up to doing porn, honestly, as oppose to making excuses. In the long run not many people would really care.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/cul...ob_so_what_if_family_ties_got_it_for_her.html

I posted this on FB the other day and it had all my fb friends arguing with each other. Personally, I am not going to fault the president's daughter using her connections to get work at 16 years old. If i had her kind of connections at that age, would probably be doing the same thing. Sure it sucks that people come out with loans up to 60 grand and higher with degrees in the arts or liberal studies field and still unable to land work, but at the same time if you are lucky enough to not have to go through all that and just jump right in why should anyone be upset with you?
 
I'm sick of hearing about how high her bills are. You are from Washington, and you chose to go to one of the most prestigious basketball colleges in the country, and its private. Why the hell should I feel bad for you? Go to Gonzaga, get in state tuition, and have fun.

"I cannot tell you how difficult it is to hear my wealthy friends talk about all of the exciting summer plans in Greece or London they have, while I know I’m going to be working. I’m in that middle-class bind where many students find themselves. My parents make too much on paper to qualify for sufficient aid, but not enough to afford $47,000 a year. Alas, the plight of a middle-class student."

Get the fuck outta here. Go to a state school, Washington or Washington St is more than god damn good .

"Everyone is focused on my decision to perform in porn to pay my tuition. Let’s start paying attention to what got me here. Sky-high tuition bills result from a culture, from our President on down, telling every kid to go to college, regardless of their future plans or ability to graduate. And they result from schools being all-too-happy to raise prices to catch all the money flowing from the federal spigot."

Now she didn't want to do porn? What a joke. This chick really grinds my gears.

Thankfully, the federal government gave me enough money before the Army to go to college for free, per semester, and now that after the Army my college is paid for and by going off of my tax returns, I actually get to profit off of it. If I didn't have the GI bill, the Pell grant and State grant would cover my whole tuition. What else can the American government do? Jesus.

And if she lived in a decent and sane country, like Finland, Norway, Sweden, etc., university tuition and health care would both be free. Americans get so fucked in the ass by over-indulgent capitalism at a corporate level that they've redefined the term "corporate slut."

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You are comparing apples to oranges, and really, the US government gives out a lot of money for federal aid on top of cheaper loans. There are many ways to minimize and or beat college loans but people aren't taking advantage of it.
 
And if she lived in a decent and sane country, like Finland, Norway, Sweden, etc., university tuition and health care would both be free. Americans get so fucked in the ass by over-indulgent capitalism at a corporate level that they've redefined the term "corporate slut."

I agree with this unfortunately. Free market capitalism simply doesn't work for people not in the societal elite. Thomas Piketty wrote a great book about it

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X[/ame]
 
Mind-control: ‘I drove a car with my thoughts’
A car in Germany can be steered with thought alone. Rose Eveleth asks its driver and his team about the fiendishly difficult skills required to steer mind-controlled vehicles.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140620-i-drove-a-car-with-my-thoughts

Brain Chip Allows Quadriplegic Man to Move His Hand
Ian Burkhart was able to clench and unclench his fist using Neurobridge.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/biot...-quadriplegic-man-to-move-his-hand-140625.htm