Qanon -The Storm

[DC_Vol]

I‘m not sure my degree would be worth it @ 2020 tuition cost.

Federal government taking over student loans has made working your way through school with no debt nearly impossible.

Try paying out of state tuition on top of that

 

[ajvol01]

Try paying out of state tuition on top of that

No joke

 

[Septic]

There's still a problem with a new drug being patent protected for 7 years before generic can be produced. The patent holder can charge whatever they want to recoup R&D of the drug and make a huge profit.

I don't see a problem with that, why would a company drop hundreds of millions into R&D if it didn't think it would be able to have that investment protected? The government should have no business telling a private business how to price its goods or services

 

[NurseGoodVol]

I don't see a problem with that, why would a company drop hundreds of millions into R&D if it didn't think it would be able to have that investment protected? The government should have no business telling a private business how to price its goods or services

I don't have a problem with them recouping their R&D and making a profit. Charging $1000 for one shot is a bit excessive.

 

[Septic]

I don't have a problem with them recouping their R&D and making a profit. Charging $1000 for one shot is a bit excessive.

Either you see value in a commodity and are willing to pay the cost or you aren't. I'm not disagreeing with opportunistic gouging, e.g. Epi-pens. "Excessive" is a subjective term, I think that the free market can work without government regulation and price control, it will ultimately stifle innovation.

 

[clarksvol00]

I‘m not sure my degree would be worth it @ 2020 tuition cost.

Federal government taking over student loans has made working your way through school with no debt nearly impossible.

When I was in Knoxville in the early 00's, tuition was increasing about 10% every year mostly due to less funding in the state budget. I can only imagine what its like now that they've gotten into the arms race of building luxury dorms that come equipped with personal chefs and butlers.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

When I was in Knoxville in the early 00's, tuition was increasing about 10% every year mostly due to less funding in the state budget. I can only imagine what its like now that they've gotten into the arms race of building luxury dorms that come equipped with personal chefs and butlers.

I would have been happy in college to just be able to get a parking spot within a 15 minute walk from campus.

 

[ajvol01]

When I was in Knoxville in the early 00's, tuition was increasing about 10% every year mostly due to less funding in the state budget. I can only imagine what its like now that they've gotten into the arms race of building luxury dorms that come equipped with personal chefs and butlers.

As of 2 years ago in-state tuition was over $7k per semester for a full time student

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

As of 2 years ago in-state tuition was over $7k per semester for a full time student

Just to give you an idea about tuition inflation, in the 1960's, a college student could work a minimum wage job between May and September and pay for their annual tuition. Today, you would be lucky to be able to pay for one semester at $7k.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

Either you see value in a commodity and are willing to pay the cost or you aren't. I'm not disagreeing with opportunistic gouging, e.g. Epi-pens. "Excessive" is a subjective term, I think that the free market can work without government regulation and price control, it will ultimately stifle innovation.

I could see that happening. It was one of my first thoughts when I contemplated socialized medicine and its repercussions. Take the profit out of research and it deincentivises it.
$2639.64 for one dose of HIV med is the cost, it's eventually spread out and everyone pays. Increased premiums across the board.

 

[ajvol01]

Just to give you an idea about tuition inflation, in the 1960's, a college student could work a minimum wage job between May and September and pay for their annual tuition. Today, you would be lucky to be able to pay for one semester at $7k.

Not to mention room and board

 

[ajvol01]

Uh-oh! Intervention time

 

[ajvol01]

 

[Orange defense]

Uh-oh! Intervention time

But yet, nothing on Epstein Island that was conspiracy before, but has came true. Nothing can stop what is coming nothing.

 

[DC_Vol]

It is rather interesting that what the media once described as a fringe conspiracy theory is not taking so much fire from the media big guns.

 

[BigOrangeD]

I would have been happy in college to just be able to get a parking spot within a 15 minute walk from campus.

Me too. When I was at UT, they were doing a lot of construction and that ate up a lot of the parking. I just started parking at the Library in the 1 hour parking and racking up parking tickets left and right. I lived at Kingston Place Condos and drove in daily. That place was one fun place to live at the time. Pool, volleyball and lots of hot women. It was the place to be at the time.

 

[Orange_Crush]

A college degree is so overrated. It’s where you waste four years of your life that you could have been doing something productive.

He doesn't understand the cognitive dissonance of his post/bump. It's a rational belly-dance, making a mass, speculative, attack-the-man fallacy against a group of people that he can never prove or support. Yet he's dense enough to question the critical thinking of others. In actuality, he's desperate that the people reading his post wouldn't actually have any critical thinking skills.

 

[hjeagle1vol]

Another accuser comes forward...maybe jealous sister syndrome, maybe not.

 

[tvolsfan]

It is rather interesting that what the media once described as a fringe conspiracy theory is not taking so much fire from the media big guns.

Lol

I'm sure the indictments are coming any day now.

 

[ajvol01]

 

[Stew Cook]

That's nice. Moving all those migrant kids from hotel to hotel has to be expensive. If someone hadn't "lost" the records of who their parents are, maybe they could go home.

 

[ajvol01]

That's nice. Moving all those migrant kids from hotel to hotel has to be expensive. If someone hadn't "lost" the records of who their parents are, maybe they could go home.

You’re clueless.

What percentage of the kids you’re referring to crossed the border illegally with their actual parents?

Why do you assume the only kids/victims being trafficked are via illegal crossing of our southern border?

Gotta spread/support the narrative no matter what, huh?

 

[Stew Cook]

You’re clueless.

What percentage of the kids you’re referring to crossed the border illegally with their actual parents?

Why do you assume the only kids/victims being trafficked are via illegal crossing of our southern border?

Gotta spread/support the narrative no matter what, huh?

Well, it's difficult to say how many crossed with their parents, because a great deal of those records were "lost" or destroyed.

I didn't say I assumed that they made up the bulk, but why would you assume that they do not?

 

[Stew Cook]

You’re clueless.

What percentage of the kids you’re referring to crossed the border illegally with their actual parents?

Why do you assume the only kids/victims being trafficked are via illegal crossing of our southern border?

Gotta spread/support the narrative no matter what, huh?

Here's a list of places receiving the funding. None of which would be looking after migrant children in limbo, as far as I can imagine, anyway.

So, my theory about this money going for their upkeep doesn't hold up.

https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/media/document/htvictimsfactheet.pdf

 

[OldVolMan]

I'm thankful that they are doing much more than just keeping them in the wired holding areas that Obama was satisfied with providing for them.