"SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)" (sammauri)
03/28/2014 at 15:45 • Filed to: None
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"SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)" (sammauri)
03/28/2014 at 15:45 • Filed to: None | 2
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Recently I have been stressed about tuition and whatnot, as I'm sure a lot of us are. But I found this, and its made me a lot more appreciative of what little financial aid I do get. At least our government isn't about to cut $12.7 billion from the education budget, right? With this cut, Spanish "universities will be allowed to raise fees by as much as 66 percent ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )" at a time when no one can afford tuition anyways because no one can get a job.
Normally I don't like to mention anything that could be seen as political but I thought this was worth a share, mostly because I have some friends taking part in protests like the one in the video I found bellow.
This happened in Madrid... Crazy, crazy stuff. Its brutal and pretty violent. Just giving you a heads up.
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dogisbadob
> SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
03/28/2014 at 15:48 |
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Their tuition still won;'t be anywhere NEAR what ours is though
Crocket Bernet
> SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
03/28/2014 at 15:49 |
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Skin the politicians!!!!
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SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
> dogisbadob
03/28/2014 at 15:59 |
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Thats actually not as true as you (or I) would think. A friend of mine is paying 15,000 € for school. USD, thats about 20k and with a 60% bump, you're getting up to the low/mid 30k USD mark. Thats not far off of (or more than) what some schools here cost. Now, obviously even with the budget cut schools might not raise tuition a full 66%, but thats getting up to US prices.
Full disclosure, I don't know what the "around 15,000 €" includes, so if he's including a place to live, books, and whatever else than thats a slightly different story.
Tekamul
> SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
03/28/2014 at 16:02 |
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"Access to education and health is among the basic rights of citizens and as such should be untouchable, whatever the state of the economy,"
Policia : "Now that right there is some optimism. I'm gonna go ahead and bonk you with this club, and maybe while you're getting your access to health, you can think about the access to education I've just provided."
/RightWinged
Manuél Ferrari
> SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
03/28/2014 at 16:04 |
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That is very interesting. Taxes are (generally) higher in Western Europe. But people generally got much cheaper college tuitions and free healthcare. If taxes remain the same but education goes up then that's a real bummer for the citizens.
I know how they feel already. I live in CA. The insanely high state income tax here makes my total tax burden similar to that in some Western European countries. But I don't have free health care and college will be insanely expensive by the time I have kids and they are old enough to go to college.
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SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
> Tekamul
03/28/2014 at 16:07 |
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There was a good amount of bonking going on from both sides.
Police: I'm gonna bonk you with this baton.
Student: Okay. I'm gonna throw this rock at your head.
Healthcare for all!
samssun
> Tekamul
03/28/2014 at 16:13 |
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Spain? Right wing? What gave them away, government being half the economy, or the inevitable riots when "progressive", cradle-to-grave dependency didn't work out again?
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SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
> Crocket Bernet
03/28/2014 at 16:15 |
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Burn [them]!
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Tekamul
> samssun
03/28/2014 at 16:22 |
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Free health care means free hugs, too, you know
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SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
> Manuél Ferrari
03/28/2014 at 16:26 |
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Apparently the government might make some serious healthcare cuts too. I haven't read anything about that though, so I can't really give an opinion on that aspect of it. But yeah, compared to places like France, the cost of tuition in Spain is next to nothing. I think I read somewhere that the average cost in Paris, with room/board and books was something around 60-65,000 €. Thats absolutely nuts (if I'm remembering that correctly) when compared to the school my friend is going to in Madrid. I'm transferring to either NYU (if I get it... still waiting to hear back) or Fordham next year and I am seriously not looking forward to the costs, and NY's income tax definitely isn't as bad as it is in CA.
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Manuél Ferrari
> SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O)
03/28/2014 at 16:45 |
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wow that's really expensive in paris considering their taxes!
the world is going nuts...