tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post7125631516323097688..comments2024-03-28T22:01:11.059-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: The Students are RevoltingOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-83172680452293984292010-12-14T02:02:47.543-05:002010-12-14T02:02:47.543-05:00Dan, just letting you know that the Download an Ex...Dan, just letting you know that the Download an Extract link on the Blood Atonement page at http://www.danwaddell.net/ is actually leading to the THE BLOOD DETECTIVE.<br />BTW I'll have <a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">a review</a> up later today.Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-43143536563006217962010-12-12T11:54:35.523-05:002010-12-12T11:54:35.523-05:00Dan,
What a good post. I cheer on the students in...Dan,<br />What a good post. I cheer on the students in Britain; they are getting a terrible deal with the increases in tuition fees, dangers of huge debt and then a tough job market.<br /><br />And that they're out in the streets is a good sign. Youth are so often out there ahead of others, bravely and with determination.<br /><br />Across the Atlantic, as others have said, students accumulate huge debt, tuitions are going up, and the job market is tight. Youth unemployment is high, many who graduate from college take jobs for which they are very overly qualified and underpaid.<br /><br />There have been protests, such as in the California university system, and some in other states.<br /><br />The city college I went to for free years ago now charges tuition and more increases are looming.<br /><br />Since unemployment is nearly 10% and many pundits are saying that it will stay high till 2012 (and some say it has become a permanent feature of the U.S. economy), the powers that be may just be deciding that college educations do not need to be available to all youth. The economy does not need them.<br /><br />And so those with money will get educations, the others don't need it. Or they graduate with enormous debt.<br /><br />A friend who is in a very good grad school (due to her fantastic grades prior) had to take out big loans to do this, yet there are no new hirings of teachers and threats of thousands of teacher layoffs loom--and, as an aside the class sizes are growing.<br /><br />Friend's daughters and their friends graduated from college and can't find jobs.<br />One is a receptionist in a hospital, another a waitress. <br /><br />I don't know how youth today can deal with this tough situation which clouds their futures.<br /><br />One thing that surely helps is the actions of the British young people. It's heartening to young people everywhere. I heard a woman in my city who is a transit worker--where there were just more layoffs of people with homes to pay for, children to feed, etc.--bring up the British students' actions in the most positive light.<br /><br />And here the Democrats should let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire and then fight for the unemployment benefits and everything else NOW!<br /><br />As some columnists here say, the wealth is being redistributed even more to the top, at the sake of the poorer folks. Something has to give here, there and everywhere!kathy d.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-37913264231229100712010-12-10T17:21:50.035-05:002010-12-10T17:21:50.035-05:00These protesters desecrated the Cenotaph. There is...These protesters desecrated the Cenotaph. There is no excuse for that, even when faced by a government of millionaires who don't care about ordinary people. Let us hope that the Liberal Democrats are utterly destroyed at the next election, are there really still 8% of voters who will vote for this cynical band of freeloaders. <br />Our problem is that we have three useless major parties, and some minor parties that are run by people, who want to live in Bavaria circa 1934. Our children and grandchildren face a bleak future.Uriah Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02046023583067265187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-22131633264704477352010-12-10T13:24:31.856-05:002010-12-10T13:24:31.856-05:00I know that many students around the world also ha...I know that many students around the world also have to pay through the nose for their college educations, but I don´t exactly see it as something to be proud of. As the mother of three young students, I feel for your British demonstrators, and I cringed last night when a Danish top politician bragged about our not having British conditions yet. Well, our government is doing what it can to catch up with yours. It may still be possible for most young people to struggle their way through college, but will this widen the gap? Yes it will.Dorte Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14535044092722418173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-90814191200380769072010-12-10T10:24:59.302-05:002010-12-10T10:24:59.302-05:00Dan, Obama is trying but yesterday a group of Demo...Dan, Obama is trying but yesterday a group of Democrats refused to allow debate or discussion on a bill he sent to Congress. The bill would allow the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest people to continue. This was required by Congress, included Democrats, in order that long-term unemployment benefits, due to expire this week, will be funded.<br /><br />The Democrats, planted firmly on the left, had a meeting in which they "bravely" declared war on the president, the leader of their party. At no point did anyone in Congress mention the unemployed.<br /><br />Back in the 1960's, Lyndon Johnson pushed through Congress his plan, The Great Society. A major part of that program was to offer low cost loans for college to those who would be, primarily, the first in their families to attend college. So after four years there was a flood of very bright, well-educated young people moving into the better paying job market and competing with the not so bright "legacies" who got their educations at the best colleges without having to prove they could read beyond a 7th grade level.<br /><br />George Bush falls into the same category as Charles. Name and checkbook are the only requirements for admission. The well-heeled did not take well to competing against those whose true station in life should have kept them repairing those heels. Competing against those who forgot their place was unfair, so those with power and money (judges) ruled that schools needed to be integrated. White flight killed education and the cities.<br /><br />Tuition, board and room, and "fees" can cost a student $50,000.00 a year at a private college, a school that the wealthy would not deign to enter. Competition for jobs is desperate. So, working class and lower middle class students, no matter how bright are opting to do the same as their British counterparts. They won't take on the debt because there is no guarantee that jobs are on the horizon.<br /><br />So, now we are all back to the way it should be. Those who have money get more and those that don't have the money won't get the education to get more.<br /><br />BethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-20434650943015556372010-12-10T10:13:40.091-05:002010-12-10T10:13:40.091-05:00What you describe as the future for U.K. students ...What you describe as the future for U.K. students is today's fiscal reality for many in the U.S., and has been for what seems generations. And for those who go the student loan route, the enormity of what they incur often shackles their lives to repaying that debt. <br /><br />In Greece, though, those successfully negotiating a national exam could expect an essentially free and endless university life. The operative word in today's world being "could." The times are a changin'...everywhere.<br /><br />By the way, Dan, you made an observation that succinctly summed up what I've felt since my very first disappointment at the hands of an inspirational leader: <br /><br />"Obama shows us that there is no ire as great as thwarted hope. The right can get away with it. Being entirely cynical...The left campaign in poetry despite the fact ruling can only be done in prose."Jeffrey Sigerhttp://www.jeffreysiger.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-48909881021302692872010-12-10T10:00:33.955-05:002010-12-10T10:00:33.955-05:00Most American students leave college with a debt o...Most American students leave college with a debt of $50,000 and many up to a $100,000. Welcome to the real world of a college education.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-58313261218261601372010-12-10T08:01:05.551-05:002010-12-10T08:01:05.551-05:00There was a great quip of Facebook by horror write...There was a great quip of Facebook by horror writer Steve Duffy reminding us of Camilla'a line: The fox enjoys the hunt as much as the rider.'Paul D Brazillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881642426845398389noreply@blogger.com