@mom2collegekids Are U S Government and Economics not high school requirements in all states? I wonder. It is in Texas. Of course, it doesn’t mean everyone takes the same thing away from it, since students and some professors participated in this march in Austin.
Northeastern is a fine school; students who are ignorant about money and economics are present at every University. Unfortunately for NU this student publicly linked herself to their school while speaking on something she obviously knew little about. Perhaps a basic course in Economic should be required of all majors so that students will be able to function more effectively in the real world. This young lady is obviously going to have problems with that.
This young lady and Tiger above are not saying anything different from what Bernie said on TV yesterday…
on a side note …the biggest loser is northeastern university… I was just talking to an alum and teasing her about her school and quality of it’s students.
she made a joke about the the neil cavuto interview and said NE students should stick to CO-OPS and stop talking about stuff they are clueless about.
NEPatsGirl
btw… the number of college students who are ignorant about stuff is probably more like 97.85%
so you did exaggerate a little (sarcasm for those without a sense of humor or need a “safe space” from humor)
“Mom2aphysicsgeek only fools think that the rich should get all the benefits that a society Some people think there should be an equitable distribution of wealth for the good of all. And no I dont think everyone should go to a community college. The prudent decision would be to tax the rich and corporations and use that money to help pay for higher education costs. That would benefit all of our society”
Or better yet, have the rich pay for their own kids to go to college, as opposed to rich kids going to four years of college, signing the dotted line, and then crying for the taxpayers to pay off their debt. Because you know what? The taxpayers include the rich, middle class, and the poor. Is it right to have the middle class and the poor paying for rich families kids who ran up debt? Apparently you and Miss student loan debt think so.
Contrary to this silly girl, I think rich people are paying their way through college, so is most of the middle class. Maybe it is simple, how about just attending where you can afford?
Isn’t Northeastern a co-op school? How can anyone be dumb enough to graduate from a co-op school w 150,000 in debt?
And if this gal is so keen on wealth redistribution, then the State should confiscate her family’s million dollar home and redistribute the capital to poorer folk who rent.
Am I the only person who thinks the person who “grilled” this “silly girl” in this interview kind of take advantage of her lack of experiences as compared to him? I somehow feel this is not a very fair game. Of course, some young person at a similar age could be quite mature/knowledgeable/articulate even under a stressful environment, e.g., the young college student from Texas who challenged Trump’s fact about the US military spending on S. Korea and challenged him when he was trying to imply that he is not an American.
mcat
"Am I the only person who thinks the person who “grilled” this “silly girl” in this interview kind of take advantage of her lack of experiences as compared to him? "
ummmm…no…she is the organizer of this group! you would think she would have a clue about what she was babbling about. she was not some random person. perhaps the issue is when asked about what her group wants and how it will work she has no grasp on the real world. she debunked her organization. he was very fair to her I would have pushed her a lot harder. the issue I think that bothers you is not that it was not a fair game but her plan is like a block of swiss cheese…full off holes!
p.s. " e.g., the young college student from Texas who challenged Trump’s fact about the US military spending on S. Korea and challenged him when he was trying to imply that he is not an American."
what does a student challenging trump in a q &a session have to do with an organizer of a group marching in washington and her being clueless and embarrassing herself about what she wants and how it will work. you are grasping at straws with that comparison.
I have to admit I am mystified by this comment. She is the one that chose to start the movement and lead this event. Who else would you choose to interview? And as far as the interviewer having more experience, what is any news organization supposed to do? Look at who is being interviewed and select an interviewer of similar age and inexperience to do the interview? Is that how the public gets enlightened about issues? Forget whether you agree or disagree about the fundamental issues in this particular case, I am asking if you are really saying that we need to “dumb down” making people defend controversial views so they don’t look bad. If so, I am rather speechless. It would be like taking this dangerous idea of not exposing college students to ideas they find “alarming” or “attacking” or otherwise “threatening their mental safety” and making it the case for the whole country.
Anyway, getting back to the issue, she chose to go to a private school. She had far more affordable options available. I am flabbergasted that people think there should be some inherent right to attend private schools they cannot afford. Should we let her buy a Lexus and then forgive the debt for that as well? There should be affordable options for higher education out there. There are. I cannot believe the person that brought up OOS schools. In what universe does that make sense? Attend your own state school. So many of these states have numerous options, including satellite campuses close to home that keep costs down, if the flagship happens to be further away.
Also, for those that keep saying there are “a lot” of people with this kind of debt, the average debt a year ago or so was $28,000. That is not factoring in people that took no debt at all, that is the average of people that have debt. So the rich are not in there, in general. Therefore while there are certainly too many people that foolishly just kept piling up debt they could not afford, far more kept the amount in the more affordable range. And just to be clear, I am only talking about undergraduate debt. As M2CK pointed out, taking on debt for grad school or professional school is a different matter, and certainly the student should know what they are getting into by that time.
I personally have zero problem with the concept of working off the debt through public service. Working off a debt is an old concept, and if we can improve public service via such a mechanism, then OK as long as the work is real and is taking the debt off at a value that is at least close to how much the debt truly is. If it is some public job that is the equivalent to sitting around all day counting jelly beans, then no we are not getting value for the forgiveness of debt. Hopefully that is not an issue, given all that needs to be done that is not getting done.
fallenchemist…2 thumbs up!
@mcat What would be the alternative? Not let her speak? She’s an orgnanizer. If news agencies refused to give her air time, what would that say about them?
If she wasn’t the best person to articulate their position, then she should have had someone else speak.
@tiger1307 << Some people think there should be an equitable distribution of wealth for the good of all. >>
Do you believe wealth should be “equitably distributed”?
Do you think salaries should be the same or similar?
Actually, I thought he was rather charitable to her, and dumbed down the interview. He is/was on the Business Channel, so he easily could have ripped her “economic” arguments – really just talking points* – to shreds, but did not.
*I really wonder if those pov’s came from some faculty members at NEU and the students, being students, just absorbed the “knowledge,” if for no other reason, to score an A in the class. Regardless, the interviewee sure showed a lack of critical thinking skills. (Not good for NEU, a fine school.)
P.S. Anyone notice that her bio includes attending a private prep school in Chicago? Francis Parker: currently ~$46k.
Her fault is not her private school or her parent’s large house; it’s being completely uninformed about the issue she went on national TV, a business show no less, to discuss. She has no doubt been sheltered from the reality of money, finance, taxes and lives in some rainbow colored bubble where everything is FREE!! and should be FREE!! for coddled babies like her.
Actually I had the same thought about half way through the interview. She was clearly in over her head and that became pretty apparent to Neil Cavuto early on. I think his line of questioning began to deteriorate in the latter half of the interview, and at that point he started looking bad to me. His hypothetical about what would happen if the 1% got fed up and left the U.S. seemed ridiculous to me. As things dragged on, I do think he took advantage of an immature girl who was not quite ready for prime time. He started looking “small” to me.
And to be clear, I am not defending her views or her hypocrisy given her UMC status.
I also questioned his whole focus on the astronomical income tax rates already in place for the wealthy. The vast majority of the 1% are not acquiring their wealth by employment income, but by capital gains. And if the asset is held for more than one year then I thought the tax rate was capped at 20%.
When we were looking at Frances Parker and Latin, tuition was $18K a year plus they wanted a “donation” of a couple of percentage points of your gross income. To be fair to Parker, high school tuition is about $34,000, not $46,000. From their website:
http://www.fwparker.org/Tuition
Here is there college placement. Given that full pays will spend around $440,000 for 12 years at the school, this is not impressive.
I listened to the interview expecting that she would be raked over the coals but I too thought the interviewer was charitable. She clearly had no clue - it was hard to listen to. I took her as a naive college student who’s had a very sheltered life.
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His hypothetical about what would happen if the 1% got fed up and left the U.S. seemed ridiculous to me.
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@HarvestMoon1 No it’s not. While many may not physically leave the country, many will and have put their money/assets beyond their country’s reach.
People do leave countries with ridiculous tax rates.
People and businesses leave states with ridiculous tax rates or policies/regulations that aren’t business friendly.
we’ve already seen retirees target lower tax states.