Comments by "Edward Bernayse666" (@edwardbernayse6665) on "A Roundtable with President Barack Obama: The Cost of Education" video.

  1. that's really cool that you got obama to be an interviewee and got him to sit down at a round table discussion but couldn't you have had some of the students on the panel be attending college who are either taking out a student loan or else working to pay their way through college?  all of these guys seemed to be on some kind of scholarship and that isn't most non-rich kids student's stories.
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  2. yeah i also wanted to know why colleges are so much more expensive everywhere else but california.  i paid eight hundred something a semester and around 300 dollars in books in the CSU system.  i worked full time at nights and paid for it myself that way.  as expensive as it is in other states, i couldn't have done that
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  3. Adam Gibby i went to school there around 1998-2002.  i graduated in 2002.  they probably raised it a little bit since then but i doubt that much.  you could try googling "california state university campuses and tuition." i would think that it would work.  also i worked full time on the grave yard shift and went to school in the day time and paid my own tuition and books.  when i graduated, i didn't owe any money.
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  4. marshawn lynch the rest of the country should follow california's model or at least its old model.  they have the CSU system here and i only paid 800 something dollars and around 300 dollars for books a semester and worked full time at nigh so that i could pay my tuition without having to take out a student loan.  when i graduated, i didn't have a student loan to pay off.  the funny thing is that 1o years before, it was 480 dollars a semester and a few years before that it was around 300 dollars a semester.  25 years ago, people paid a little over 300 dollars a semester.  why can't the rest of the country do that?
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  5. orangemania its still not as simple as raising the standards.  a dyslexic kid who has to work a lot harder in order to keep his/her grades up might do better than a kid who parties too much, develops poor study habits and flunks out or cheats his way through even though his grades in high school might have been impressive.  that's probably part of the reason why so many other 1st world countries either have free college or very low tuition and books cost and people here are against it.  they don't want their taxes to go to fund some kids drinking/drug habits.
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  6. docufreak1 i blame the person whose screen name i use for convincing people that this kind of system is a good thing. really if we all lived within our means and didn't use credit cards and were all frugal with our money, the economy would collapse probably worse than it did in 1929.
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  7. 010101 010101 yeah but the libertarian style of economics would lead to mafia run cities and towns or back to the 19th century where robber barons would pay their workers piddly wages and force them to go on strike again. 
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  8. MrJustlucky11 how do you think that the CSU and UC systems out here in california are able to stay so cheap?  the CSU systems here are cheaper than a lot of european countries.
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  9. Toobi WestW when i went to school through the CSU system, it would cost me under $1700 in tuition and around $600 in books for a year.  this is unique though and none of the other states are like that.
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  10. jeffery gibson "usf" that could be any school. 
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  11. OneLove94 i have a theory about why some people don't want to help flip the bill in order to lower the tuition prices.  the drop out rate is too high for them.  the drop out rate isn't astronomical but still with as many kids as there are drinking as much as they do in colleges and flunking out or dropping out, it would get them to question whether or not it would be a good thing or a bad thing.  i think that it would also give people the feeling that they are financially supporting other people's kids and the public was financially supporting them.  that's just my theory.  still i think that there is probably a majority out there in several states that would be willing to pay a little bit more in taxes in order to lower the cost for tuition.
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  12. Herve Shango too many kids here party too much and either flunk out or drop out for most people to agree to let their taxes pay for college students tuition.  besides that they are greedy and don't like their taxes to go to social programs.
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