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posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Can't-fix-it dept.

In a shift from a mere couple of years ago, when a majority of Republican-Americans thought that higher education was a good thing, the majority of them now believe the opposite.

A Pew Research Center survey published Monday revealed voters have grown apart in their support of secondary education since the 2016 presidential election season, when a majority of Democratic and Republican Americans agreed the nation’s universities serve as a benefit for the U.S. Whereas 54 percent of Republicans said "colleges and universities had a positive impact on the way things were going in the country" in 2015, the majority now believe the opposite, with 58 percent saying such institutions negatively impact the state of the union.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @03:58PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @03:58PM (#537628)

    We don't pay them not to work. The pittance that we pay out in terms of welfare and other social assistance are tiny compared with the actual needs.

    Those people who are on public assistance long term are mostly people that are sick or unable to gain employment for one reason or another. This whole business of people choosing not to work so they can get the government to pay for things is ridiculous. The closest thing to that is retirees on social security, and even though they pay into the system, the money they get out is typically insufficient in all but the cheapest parts of the country to be viable.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @07:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @07:46PM (#537764)

    Don't bother with real responses to Jmorris, he's a boot licking piece of crap who can't see his own stupidity. The alt-righters around here are pathetic excuses of techies.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @01:05AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @01:05AM (#537881)

      A real techie is interested in using technology to return power to the individual, not take ever more resources from the individual against his will.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:44AM (#537921)

        While your words sound nice they are really just nonsense. Techies come in many political flavors, but generally they have above average intelligence since tech stuff tends to be hard.

        I like the idea of tech giving power back to the people, but you sound too much like the "violently imposed monopoly" guy. By the way, that guy was totally The Mighty Buzzard. Sure it was just IRC chatter, but if the shoe fits.