Don’t worry, educated idiots. This will bring the price down so that your kids, or your grand kids, will be able to pay their own way.

Get a job. Then you’ll learn something worth knowing.

Maybe this is an opportunity for Private Colleges to offer financing to graduate students. Why rely on the govt for everything!

Not even out of college and they are being taught to be dependent on the government. No wonder they go out into the job market and expect the government to provide them with a job or work for some place that is government funded and think that this is how it is for everybody. Wait until they see the burger flippin job or gutter sweeper jobs waiting for them. But this is not really their fault, all the goods jobs moved to China… check out IBM, no jobs here but lots in China and MExico etc…

Cuts? What is this non-sense about “cuts”?

Reductions (which, mind you will never happen) to future spending increases are not cuts.

Any individual who has been educated as opposed to indoctrinated will understand this.

So now everyone is entitled to graduate school? Since when is graduate degree required to get a job?

My grandfather had to drop out of school in the 8th grade to support his family because his older brothers were drafted into the war. Through hard work he was able to put my father through college and my father returned the favor and helped me.

Now these spoiled brats think the government owes them a secondary education and graduate school. Makes me sick. What is happening to America?

Plain & Simple..it’s tax increase for grad students. You should be paying a loan while still school. I repeat a loan!!

You should be paying a student loan while still school?

I repeat a loan!!

Why do people fell like it is the governments responsibility to provide these loans? If you haven’t noticed were broke.

You need a loan, go to a bank.

When a good solid work ethic is good enough to solve our nation’s innovation lag or scientific expertise shortfalls, then grad school support won’t be needed. But right now it’s like a science apprenticeship where you actually get to start research projects to try to reclaim our national status.

The trouble is, fully-funded foreign students have the motivation to achieve for us and we’re lucky to get them here, but technology sharing allows all that work to be put into commercial practice in their home lands instead of here. We have grown useless in doing this for ourselves. We pay for the schools, we pay for the research, and then they get the brains and get all of the jobs and all of the new innovative product advances. How nuts is that?

In almost every country except USA and a few others, everything is copied. There is no inovation because no one can make money from their idea. The government or others take the idea and give nothing to the person who came up with it. the more government control we have here means the less likley any new ideas will happen. Soon we will be just another 3rd world country trying to copy others. and we can not do that very well.

I am almost sick reading these responses and am disgusted at the lack of understanding. Graduate degrees absolutely strengthen both the private and public sectors and the way to balance the mess in Washington is NOT to require STUDENTS to pay higher interest rates. Yes, grad degrees are not for everyone, but are absolutely vital to our country. Here are the facts folks: Subsidized Grad loans come with a 3.8% interest rate and the interest does not inquire while enrolled (SMART!!). Unsubsidized loans for grad students carry an 8% interest rates and the interest is inquired while enrolled. 8%????!!!!! This is damn fraud and the government is now only going to make it much more difficult for anyone to afford grad school…Except of course that 1% of Americans who can afford it. Get real people this is a crisis if you can’t see the long term impact of not having affordable advanced degrees in this country, it is not worth the time to listen to your argument. Sure I am ranting but a lack of understanding about this is nothing less than absurd.

Who needs research? Especially in medical school -go back to the good old days the Tea Party advocates. Leeches to bleed the poisons in the blood anyone? We wouldn’t want to spend “our money” for something so frivolous as a cure for cancer, would we?

What is really needed, and oh I hate to suggest another program, but in these tough economic times when we need the brains and innovation so badly, is a defined way for graduates to enter the industry of their chosen field and work off the government loans. Widespread default or deferments will collapse the loan system, and working for stipend pay as an intern researcher is better than being drafted, for instance.

When times are better, they’ll be up and running for our benefit and theirs. Every industry can use the benefit, but the placement agent had better make sure the employer is applying for graduates to do new research and new work, rather than laying off current white-collar workers and hiring on the cheap. A community service stint could do graduates some good too, by giving them a feeling of personal investment in our communities’ well-being.

Funny how I was able to go all the way through school with unsubsidized, personal loans. Yes it was a lot of money and debt but it was important so I made it happen. Now I make a lot of money to pay those large loans off. It’ll take a long time but again, I was able to accomplish it so why can’t these students? It is all about initiative and I have discovered some of the dumbest folks I know have grad degrees.

Psst.

Your rants about value of the program might not ring so hollow if not every government program was a sacred cow for you liberals.

The republicans can’t even get Democrats to agree that a 40 year old (originally temporary program) subsidizing air traffic to rural airports shoud be cut. Millions of dollars to support less than 20 airports and all they requested was to cut the program for airports within 70 mile radius of another airport. Doesn’t sound very rural to me. I commute that far round trip every day to work. Truly government waste, but sacred to the Dems. Shared sacrifice my a$$.

Instead the Democrats don’t vote on the bill and take vacation putting thousands out of work and blame the Republicans. The House passed the bill to keep these people working and the DEMOCRATES refused to approve. Funny thing about compromise, it takes two to play that game.

America is going no where fast. Can’t wait for next election when you pompous liberals find out 2010 is the new direction. You just don’t get it.

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