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I love this idea Bob. Have the people who benefit from the education pay for it! The better of a job they do educating you, the more you benefit and the more you pay. I love it! You are hired. ;)

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I couldn't agree more. Add to this the myth that only people with a uni degree can be successful and you have a perfect storm for failure.

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Sure there is no budget for this. They are spending all of that money on professors who don't show up to work, fancy parties, $400,000 plus for a party house for the president. Heck, I don't have to tell you. I'm sure you see more waste than I do.

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Why should working people be asked to pay for this when the schools squander massive amounts of money and sell worthless degrees? If the education is worth so much ask the students to pay for it.

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The state should stop funding public higher education. I have no problem with granting scholarships and grants. The entire higher-ed system is broken, from the tenure system to the wholesale fraud committed on students who have been told that they have to have a degree to be successful. An example is the ridiculous number of useless degrees SOLD to students because the uni needs the money, not because Oregon or the nation or the world needs more people with useless degrees. It's fraud to sell a degree with little or no job prospects, only to send these young citizens out into the world with $50,000+ in debt and no skills to get a job. This entire system rests on the backs of working people, many of whom may not even have the need of a university education.

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