Desert -
My daughter looked a several schools.  We're Catholic, so she first looked at Catholic schools like Creighton, Notre Dame, Boston College, etc.  Liberty was the cost winner, hands down.  And as I said, the quality of the program is really good.  I'm a lawyer, so having a graduate degree myself, I was impressed.

I tried to copy one of Lost Artists replies. The last one is so spot on, except that he fails to point out when the government started getting into the tuition loan business.
And seriously, look around at LIFE. What percentage of the JOBS in life need a college education? And how many jobs require a college education today that Didn't in the sixties? My dad, high school graduate, oil field worker, worked his way up and eventually ran a coupla oil companies. He was a consultant and had a plane and pilot and was ready to go anywhere, anytime, to get a well under control. He knew how, because he was part of the team that developed the techniques. He was in Libya and Nigeria in the sixties, overseeing the drilling. He was Just a high school graduate. Today, it takes a team of engineers to accomplish what he did.

Self esteem
I'm Awesome
Don't know how to Do anything, but
I'm Awesome.

DesertRat wrote on 03/01/16 at 15:09:35:


Amen... I made much better money and got far more respect as a "Consultant" than I did as an "Employee".     The college kids the HR department would hire as "managers" had ZERO real life experience and even less ability to think outside of what they found in the textbook.......  

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Again, I ask you, what PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION needs a college education?

I was Offered a chance to go to Texas Tech. I passed. Yes, could have made more money and worked less, b u t I Like work.
I didca y ear of college. Algebra, trig, chemistry and lab, all A and B. Burnt out. Real work has to be done. The oilfield runs on trucks, pumps, chains, sprockets, someone has to Build th, operate them, maintain them. I'm aware that we need doctors, etc. But I think the whole
You need a college education thing is way overblown.

Both JOG2 AND 'Rat are correct.....   Many of the young people are wasting time and money on degrees that lead to neither jobs nor careers... They would be better served in a trade school, learning something that they can make a living doing.       Todays' society preaches that "You need a college degree to be successful. " Bull Feathers !!!!!               Conversely, the HR departments in companies / corporations are convinced that a specific degree from a specific College or university is an ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT in order to perform certain positions....  

What we need are

JOBS

repeal the trade agreements
Lower corporate taxes to very low rates.
After all, EVERY product You buy is marked up, and that final price Includes Every penny it cost to create the product , which includes the taxes the company has to pay and the cost of obeying all those regulations.

The left should be particularly upset about the industry that has been sent overseas. THEY don't have the clean air requirements that our factories have. GLOBAL impact, the Air is blown hither and yon, before rain washes the crud out. Where does it land? What does it do? How many Texans are suffering from lead poisoning because of the battery recycling place in Mexico, where they stack the batteries and burn them, then pull the lead out of the pile?
Pretty sure those people need to go to college.

Americans need Jobs. Jobs that support families. The trade agreements destroyed that. The MEDIA , again, has been used to explain what we need, College, that is the answer. And what has it done? Waiters at Red Lobster and the sixty thousand dollar debt, but they have a degree in sociology!

Unless we are exporting more dollars worth of stuff than importing, we are going broke.

The debt based currency? It's a parasite.

Those companies are hiring foreign bodies and taking the money offshore, because taxes are so high here.

So, you can quote Ford.
What did he say about the federal reserve?