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Professor Baxter said:
We don't need to increase government involvement. In another twenty years the market will provide college courses for next to nothing through MOOCs and bring about a revolution in education.
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The argument I've seen made is the more the government has gotten involved in student loans the more the cost of colleges have gone up. I've haven't delved into all the data behind that so I can't say I know that statement to be 100% truthful. We do know though the cost of colleges have gone way up and the government has gotten more involved in student loans.
 
007 said:
You forget to mention, the USA has a much higher graduation record than nations that give free education/indoctrination.
Guess if you work for something, you value it!!
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I think it's hardly arguable that the countries that have offered free education and healthcare for their citizens aren't light-years better off than they were before. That wouldn't be your argument, would it?

In the case of Cuba .. how much better off would they be without the embargo?

In spite of the embargo, because they place a true priority on education and healthcare, Cuba has more doctors per capita than any nation in the world. Don't take my word for it ..

What's With All the Cuban Doctors?
How Castro built a nation of physicians.

Cuba has announced it will send a group of doctors to help Castro's old ally President Daniel Ortega bolster the health system in Nicaragua. Castro also sent about 1,700 physicians to Bolivia in 2006 to lend aid to the government of Evo Morales. Why does Cuba have so many doctors to spare?

Well, because Castro said so. The Cuban constitution guarantees every inhabitant the "right to health protection and care." After the revolution in 1959, half of the country's 6,000 doctors fled the island. The new government promoted medical education as part of a national project to revamp the health-care system, and by 1984, Cuba had enough doctors to put a physician and a nurse in every neighborhood. Some will tell you Cubans become doctors because they believe in universal health care; others emphasize the social and economic rewards. (Doctor aren't paid much, though—some make less than $40 a month.) Whatever their motivations, Cuba has more doctors per capita than any other country: 70,000 for a population of 11 million.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...2007/02/whats_with_all_the_cuban_doctors.html

Guess what Mr. Indoctrinated .. the US has suffered a doctor shortage for more than a decade .. AND, it's about to get much, much worse.

Matbe we can import some from Cuba. :0)

Wouldn't be up for arguing that the countries I mentioned are exponentionally better off than before free education and healthvcare, would you?
 
Chapel The Evergreen said:
We'll see. I mean, I certainly HOPE so (as the vast majority of my knowledge has come from such avenues), but I remain skeptical as to it bringing down college costs.
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You didn't get college credits for your military training? I managed to knock a year off college that way. Back then there was something called a CLEP test that you could take and get credit for various things.
 
I never CLEPed, but I did receive almost a semester's worth of credits for my Basic Training and Tech School. Add in two classes satisfied by my AP US History test score from junior year of HS, and I was looking good.
 
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