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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended a LAC while the majority of my HS classmates (who enrolled in college; the majority did not) attended the two large unis in our state or one of the five regionals. Many returned to our hometown, landed jobs, married, had kids, were active in the local schools, took care of their parents as they aged, and are now grandparents themselves. While my life pretty much doesn't resemble theirs in many ways, I just don't get the vitriol here. [b]It is certainly great for our hometown that folks return, pay taxes, and plow money back into the community. It's not necessarily what I sought in life, but I don't begrudge them for it.[/b] [/quote]

Ah, so keeping sheep shackled to the local region is great for...legacy costs i.e PENSIONS AND HEALTH CARE for fat cat lazy boomers who retire to Florida or Arizona and live high on the hog in their late 50s 60s 70s 80s? Got it.[/quote]

I don't even understand this....[/quote]

The PP explained it's good to keep most kids narrow-minded and tethered to the same region they grew up via local public degree mills because it keeps the tax base in place. In sum, it's self-serving because the young tax base in most of the country merely services the legacy costs of the baby boomer's fat retirement packages. Most of those retirees barely lifted a finger in whatever public job they had and retired with lavish taxpayer-funded pensions and platinum health care benefits. The country is bigger than just DMV, much of the nation is struggling and has increasingly limited opportunities, while the tax base too narrow-minded to move is fleeced to pay for retired boomers (many of which moved to Florida and Arizona).[/quote]

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