Today we take a look at couple of ways smart job-creators have come up with to make people pay for portions of our education system that should either not exist or be free, thereby creating wealth for themselves and a few jobs to boot. They must have gone to college to be smart enough to come up with that plan.
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: The war on common core - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 05-08-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: The Secret Agent: The Secret Agent Ending - Philip Glass: Glass Reflections
Ch. 4: Act 2: Republican: Common Core is a Plot to Turn Kids Gay! - @majorityfm - Air Date: 05-20-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Shame - Emotionalism (Bonus Track Version)
Ch. 6: Act 3: This Test Is Not For Non-English Speakers - @radio_dispatch - Air Date 5-2-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Classroom - East Coast Teen Party - Volume 7
Ch. 8: Act 4: Students Now Indentured to the Banksters - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 05-24-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Free College - Pie in the Sky
Ch. 10: Act 5: Senator Warren Fights For Students, Knowing She'll Fail - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 05-10-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: We Are the Champions - Queen: Greatest Hits
Ch. 12: Act 6: Student Debt PayBack Cap via @WhiteHouse - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 14: Act 7: Time for a Student Loan Debt Jubilee! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 06-04-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Free Education (feat. Treez & Young DJ) - Unconditional
Ch. 16: Act 8: Graduating? The Class of 2014 is Screwed - @majorityfm - Air Date: 05-24-14
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Summer hours should be summer weeks - Dan in Sheffield Lake
Ch. 22: Don't read history, work on the future - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 23: Final comment on the importance of synthesizing historical information to help create the future
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism Update!
”Obama Announces New Executive Orders to Reduce Student Debt” via In the Capital
ACTIVISM:
"How to Contact All the Senators Who Voted Against Student Debt Relief Legislation” via In the Capital
Find out how much the Congress cost you — then tweet it at them.
Track legislative efforts at Higher Ed Not Debt.
Sources/additional glimmers of hope:
"The 37 Senators Who Voted for Millionaires Over Students” via Campaign For America’s Future at Truthout
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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“You recently expressed concern that frustration in the country is breeding cynicism about democratic government. You need look no further than your own administration for a major source of that frustration – politically driven suppression of news and information about federal agencies. We call on you to take a stand to stop the spin and let the sunshine in.”
http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1253
- The enlightened Educators are raising the tuition prices. No one is forcing them
- The Federal Reserve enable ALL the debt because the Feds could not print the money to pass to the Feds to pay off the bad student debt if not for the power of the Fed
- This appears to be a government created mess from top to bottom. Govt support tuition increases, lure the students in to debt, pass the law to ensure the debt cannot be discharged even in bankruptcy.
- I agree . It is a plantation operation. The Feds make money, College administrators and tenured posse do very well in what turns out to be a diploma mill
Note colleges price gouge
http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/charts/inflation/CPI-categories-since-2000.html?CPI-categories-plus-college-tuition-since-2000.gif