[NEWS] Annoying Orange proposes $54 bil increase on military spending

[IkeTheGeneric]

Wahhh let the government do everything for us! Put our governments greasy hands into everything! Steal from those who worked hard so my mom can spend more money on cigarettes and booze!

Did ya miss my post?

Honestly, coming from a more economically conservative point of view, it would probably be a good investment long-term to look into free higher education in the wake of further automation of the American workforce. You're going to have a lot of untrained people losing their jobs and not have the education to help them reenter the job market without having to reinvest their savings into getting a degree. This could pose a potentially disastrous outcome if we can't gracefully transition into automation.

It's less about giving people free stuff, and more about making sure to preemptively prevent mass unemployment in the wake of automation of our workforce.

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[PhantOS]

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84

Compare the amount of universities to the amount of high schools

this doesn't answer my question at all. why would there be a waiting list for college? free college doesn't mean they'll accept more people than they already do.

[McZealot]

b-b-but her emails!

[beachbum111111]

Because beachbum doesn't understand how college works. Or anything works, really.

Coming from you of all people

Nobody would just "apply" for college and get in

Except you do. Unless that's just exclusive to universities which I highly doubt.

[AndroFox]

i should prepare my own bunker

[LeisureSuit912]

Did ya miss my post?
It's less about giving people free stuff, and more about making sure to preemptively prevent mass unemployment in the wake of automation of our workforce.

Exactly. Automation is coming for the workforce, it's inevitable, and the way capitalism operates right now is not going to have any answers for the mass unemployment that'll happen with it.

Coming from you of all people

Ohhh stuff d00d

Except you do. Unless that's just exclusive to universities which I highly doubt.

No you don't. You apply, you get accepted, you pay. You wouldn't have to pay, but you'd still need to be accepted in. There's not gonna be this mass influx of people coming into college because it's free; you wouldn't be able to just pay your way in (aka Jared Kushner's father paying his university millions of dollars so his dipstuff failson can go to college).

[Poliwhirl]

Except you do. Unless that's just exclusive to universities which I highly doubt.

this is why canadians shouldnt pretend to know stuff about how america works

[PhantOS]

Except you do. Unless that's just exclusive to universities which I highly doubt.

what? do you know anything about the acceptance process?

[beachbum111111]

what? do you know anything about the acceptance process?

You apply, you get accepted, you pay.

Whats so difficult about this? Not once did I imply that when you apply you automatically get accepted. Some courses require a portfolio to get in but many of them only require a high school diploma, and (surprise surprise) some courses have a cost just for trying to get into the course. And with courses that require some sort of portfolio there are times that you DO get accepted but since so many other people did as well you get put on a waiting list for the next year.

[PhantOS]

Whats so difficult about this? Not once did I imply that when you apply you automatically get accepted. Some courses require a portfolio to get in but many of them only require a high school diploma, and (surprise surprise) some courses have a cost just for trying to get into the course. And with courses that require some sort of portfolio there are times that you DO get accepted but since so many other people did as well you get put on a waiting list for the next year.

Here's how it works:

You put in your college app, which is done through a website. You send the application on the due date, say January 1st. It takes them until April 1st to either send you a letter of acceptance or rejection. Once you get accepted, they give you a password to their website, where you fill out financial stuff and then you pay in advance the tuition, which is normally within the range of 10,000-40,000 for most universities.

There's no year long waiting list

[Poliwhirl]

also worth noting that a significant amount of people drop out or graduate every school year so there are rarely any real problems with capacity

[beachbum111111]

Here's how it works:

You put in your college app, which is done through a website. You send the application on the due date, say January 1st. It takes them until April 1st to either send you a letter of acceptance or rejection. Once you get accepted, they give you a password to their website, where you fill out financial stuff and then you pay in advance the tuition, which is normally within the range of 10,000-40,000 for most universities.

There's no year long waiting list

Holy forget I never implied there is ALWAYS a year long waiting list. I meant if they've excepted the 40 or whatever amount of students for the course that they can take then they will put you on the list for next year.

loving Christ man way to misinterpret what I said

[PhantOS]

Holy forget I never implied there is ALWAYS a year long waiting list. I meant if they've excepted the 40 or whatever amount of students for the course that they can take then they will put you on the list for next year.

loving Christ man way to misinterpret what I said

they don't do that either. you start the semester class of your choice in november-ish

most classes that you choose start off with around 200-300 people but by the end of the semester there's only 30 people left.

[beachbum111111]

they don't do that either. you start the semester class of your choice in november-ish

The course I'm taking has a portfolio requirement. On average 150 apply, 42 get accepted, 5 get put on a waiting list for the next year, 50 don't hand their portfolios in at all or at the proper deadline, and the rest didn't have a good enough portfolio.

[Planr]

I like how you didn't mention the massive amount of pollution - and animal neglect - created by the Dakota Pipeline Protesters. It's threatening to create more of an environmental disaster than the highly unlikely what-if scenario of a pipeline leak they are protesting.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/13944/despicable-dakota-access-pipeline-protesters-left-hank-berrien

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/5/massive-cleanup-underway-after-dakota-access-prote/