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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 09:51 AM Original message |
Edwards proposes expansion of his "College for Everyone" program nationwide |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. More about the price tag for programs Edwards is proposing |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 10:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Anyone not willing to make this investment in America's future is either shortsighted |
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draft_mario_cuomo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 12:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. We have a $2.9 trillion budget, with $100+ billion going to Iraq |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. Just as long as people don't think that he can make college-relevant jobs |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 10:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. At least hands on health care jobs, teaching jobs, can't be shipped |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 01:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. but is college just the new "Vo-Tech High"? |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 04:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. This can be a chicken and the egg argument. The current Bushie |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 06:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. You are partly right about the need for hands on job, but |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 10:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The education system in India is part of the reason these jobs are going there |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 11:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Babara Ehrenreich has been instrumental in starting a white collar union |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 05:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. The jobs are going there because they speak English and work for less. |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. How'd they get so many people educated well enough to take these jobs? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The jobs are moving there because the pay scales are lower. |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 09:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. China does it better than India, but India's doing it too -- educating your citizens |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 11:48 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Yes, we need to continue to educate people. But anyone in engineering |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 02:08 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Yeah. We're too educated and too skilled and too expensive. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 02:39 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Ninety percent of India's students drop out before reaching high school. |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 02:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I made that point above. |
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dave_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. Widen it. Education for all |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 01:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I'm not bothered by the work requirement of 10 hrs/week while |
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dave_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 01:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Understood |
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electron_blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 02:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Would you put a cap on the hours worked? |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 04:31 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. That's why this program is so worthwhile for these kids. It's often |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
11. Kucinich has proposed free college tuition to all qualified people |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 04:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Edwards hasn't just PROPOSED this program; he put together money |
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Czolgosz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 06:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. Yet another key issue where Edwards and Kucinich are driving the debate; time for Obama to weigh in! |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-12-07 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
21. My bugaboo; controlling costs. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. I'm strongly opposed to making students work while in college. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 06:09 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Perfection or nothing? (nt) |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 04:58 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. It's a thin-end-of-a-wedge issue. |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:34 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. In Utopia, yes. In the US? Not likely. Ten hours/week is quite reasonable. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 04:56 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I would hardly call the UK Utopia. |
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