Guess what time it is?

Dean mentioned higher education. The price for college started to shoot up a little after there were so many opportunities for scholarships for dumb reasons, student loans came around, grants on top of grants, and when foreign students were getting full scholarships, places to live and a job so that they could say they had a student from a place like Bulgaria and the colleges could say they were diverse with people from lots of countries.

Then we had the proliferation of BS majors and Masters programs for stuff like Lesbo Studies. Tons of professors with only 20 people in the whole program. The best thing that could happen to the colleges and the people would be to stop all loans that are called college loans. Limit the money that colleges get. Let colleges tighten up and only offer majors that allow people to get good paying jobs after. Stop the class duplication across the state except when there are a lot of people wanting those classes and the University can make money so to speak. Tighten it up and let the free market decide.

We would have more serious students. We would have the universities going out and having to compete to get these students. The quality will go up and the prices will go down. The number of students will be cut, but we would have a better student.

Tops? stop the student entrance requirements into Tops. Make everyone pay their first semester then TOPS will reimburse the school for the next semester if they made a good GPA the semester before. And we need to continue to pay Tops for trade schools for those that cut it academically.

When the academic elite get into government and politics that's when things go bad. These moronic academicians have never practiced their skill in the real world. "Those that can't do, teach".
I had professors in law school that never spent a second in the courtroom or even had any idea where the courthouse was located. They were the academic drones that strive to put their ideas, untested though they are, into play in our government. Want an example, I give you barack hussein obama. Want another, Hillary Clinton. The list goes on forever. I had a few retired lawyers as professors and they would teach and not go on with the socratic method just to terrorize the students. They wanted their students to learn.
Too many academic morons in universities today making far too much money for their craft. These fools couldn't make a dime in realville. They get these huge salaries only because the free flow of government money going to students disguised as student loans and grants, etc. Half these professors should be making minimum wage.

Hold on a second there BlackRiverJosh, you're a lawyer? Next time I see a post bashing our profession I expect you to step up and defend it, yes?

Well it's not just law degrees that leave graduates burdened with debt...

I totally agree....
like i said plenty times before jyst because you are black dont make u have to be a n1gger.
And jyst because you are a lawyer shouldnt make u think that your shit dont stink and your
Better than all who arent.

HaHa, very true.

what the hell is the Department of Justice (DOJ) doing down there? If you are by Ville Platte,LA get ready the tap is about to be opened, don't worry the DOJ is with the Government and their there to help.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... 10&elqat=1

The Feds always come it to make excuses for the ill-behaved cousins of obama.
These creatures break the law, get arrested, claim racial profiling, then the Feds send down the racist DOJ to tell the world that it is the police's fault.
See what the democrats have done to our nation?
Now it's hitting home.

Seems like simple rule to follow!!

“Appropriate Dress” Laws

But there are still other troubling rules on the books, say civil rights advocates. “They have a lot of overly punitive and some idiosyncratic ordinances that lead to incarcerating people for things that shouldn’t be infractions at all,” said Marjorie Esman, the Louisiana ACLU’s executive director. Esman said she has been following events in Ville Platte for several years.

One is a ban on sagging pants. Specifically, the city’s municipal code requires that pants be “size appropriate and secured at the waist to prevent the pants from falling more than three inches below the hips (crest of the ilium) causing exposure of the person or the person’s undergarments.”

Self respect is what these fools are missing. They think they get respect automatically instead of earning it.
Oh wait, they get everything without earning it.

I am against laws against saggy paints. Even if I do think it is stupid, it is their right to wear whatever they want. First amendment and all. Plus, it makes them slower and an easier target to shoot when they are running away armed and dangerous.

The doo doo bomb seemed to work here baron.

thank goodness - now we can get back to the real tough issues on MMT like oil, oil filters and air filters

Enough of the bombs away pictures. I'd rather see Hillary nude. Probably.

1. If your a guy don't get married to your girlfriend
2. Have a couple kids
3. Use your mom’s address for your mail
4. Buy a house
5. Rent your house to your girlfriend and your two kids
6. Section 8 will pay $900 a month for the rent on the 3 bedroom home
7. Have your girlfriend sign up for Obamacare
8. Your girlfriend gets to go to college free as a single mother
9. She also gets $400 a month for food stamps
10. She gets a free cell phone
11. She also gets a cash grant to help pay for heating costs
12. Move into your house with her, but keep your mom’s address for your mail
13. Each of you can claim one child on your taxes so now you both get to claim head of household credit ($1295)
14. Have your girlfriend get a permanent disability for “marked difficulties maintaining concentration” or having a “back pain.”

This is all perfectly legal, and is clearly being enjoyed by millions of people.

Here’s how it all adds up:

$22,800 disability + $10,800 housing benefit +$4,800 food stamps + $3,300 Obamacare subsidy + $900 utilities grant + $5,645 Pell grant cash + $12,000 yearly college tuition grant + $8,000 single mother tax benefit + $1,295 head of household credit…

…equals $69,540 – and we didn’t even add in the free cellphone!

Now you know why our nation has a debt of $18,205,125,300,000.

Can we all agree that crime has nothing to do with race?

POVERTY, NOT RACE, TIED TO HIGH CRIME RATES IN URBAN COMMUNITIES

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Violent crime rates have more to do with poverty levels in a neighborhood than with the race of local residents, new research has found.

A study of Columbus neighborhoods found that violent crime rates in extremely disadvantaged white neighborhoods were very similar to rates in comparable Black neighborhoods.

The violent crime rate in highly disadvantaged Black areas was 22 per 1,000 residents, not much different from the 20 per 1,000 rate in similar white communities.

There are still many people who mistakenly believe there is something about Black neighborhoods that make them more violent and prone to crime, said Lauren Krivo, co-author of the study and associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University.

Our research shows that neighborhoods with the most crime tend to be those with the highest rates of poverty and other types of disadvantage -- regardless of whether they are predominantly Black or white.

In this study, overall rates of violence were nearly three times as high in Black neighborhoods as in white neighborhoods. But thats because Black neighborhoods are much more likely than white ones to be highly disadvantaged, she said.

Krivo conducted the study with Ruth Peterson, a professor of sociology at Ohio State. Their study was published in the current issue of the journal Social Forces.

The researchers examined crime rates for 1989 to 1991 in 177 census tracts in Columbus. They separated the census tracts -- which are the units researchers use to approximate neighborhoods -- into those with low poverty rates (less than 20 percent), high rates (20 to 40 percent) and extreme rates (more than 40 percent). They also separated the census tracts into those that were predominantly white or Black (at least 70 percent of one race).

Along with poverty rates, the researchers also compared neighborhoods on other measures of disadvantage: levels of male joblessness, female-headed families, and professionals living in the community. They then calculated a disadvantage index that combined all of these measures.

Violent crime rates were lowest in those neighborhoods with low disadvantage, regardless of whether they were predominantly Black or white. Extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods had violent crime rates that were 16.3 per 1000 higher than rates in low disadvantage neighborhoods.



The results showed that extremely disadvantaged Black neighborhoods still had slightly higher violent crime rates than did similar white neighborhoods. One possible reason may be that the Black neighborhoods in this study are still more disadvantaged than the comparable white neighborhoods, Krivo said.



In addition, the highly disadvantaged Black neighborhoods were more likely than the white neighborhoods to be grouped together, which may intensify the negative effects.


The researchers also looked at property crimes in the study. The results were similar in that extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods -- both white and Black -- had comparable rates of crime. However, in the case of property crimes, white neighborhoods had slightly higher rates than did Black communities.



This may be because residents in the Black neighborhoods are more impoverished, and there is less to steal, Krivo said.

Krivo said this study was conducted in Columbus because it has relatively large numbers of both white and Black high-poverty neighborhoods, which made comparisons possible. Many large cities have very few impoverished white neighborhoods, she said.



The results show a clear connection between poverty and crime, according to Krivo.

Disadvantage has the same patterns of effects on crime in white and Black neighborhoods. Black urban neighborhoods tend to have higher crime rates than the typical white city neighborhood, but this is largely because there are more Black communities that are highly disadvantaged.

Been dirt poor never looted. How many time have you seen the poor white folks, Hispanics or Orientals poor into the street, burn each others places down a steel everything in sight?

Dean all I see from what you posted is a connection with crime and extreme poverty. The government has thrown money at sorry ass people of all races for years now, IT DOESNT HELP! What would you suggest we do with them?

I disagree dean giving someone money without any incentive for them to get on their feet or work is just a hand out and that's why they stay where they are in society. If welfare worked you would see the poverty level in this country steadily decline and crime should too according to the study you posted but it isn't. Why is this can you explain?

Just got a call from a buddy in Baltimore...

Went to go help clean up a CVS and the only thing left was sun screen and Father’s Day Cards....

Frog:

I like your story, but there is one glaring inconsistency I would like to point out. You said this: " People are impoverished in this country because they choose to be!" And you also said your family was poor. So are we to conclude they were poor because they chose to be?