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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's so crazy to me is that even if you save really aggressively, and you end up with like I don't know $500,000 for two kids. [/quote]

Sorry I wasn't done.

But if you have to pay all of that. Then you're left with zero savings? It seems inherently unfair and just bonkers.[/quote]

Yep.  And the crazy thing is, this is likely the most expensive product you will ever spend money on and as a buyer you have zero control!  That's kinda how criminal cartels work.  They control the product, it's price and the terms of sale even though free market principles would suggest otherwise..[/quote]

You have plenty of control.  Go in state. Go to community college.  Go to foreign schools in Canada or Europe.  Free market means they can charge what they think you will pay-/ and that you can decline and go elsewhere.  Or skip college entirely and go direct into business or apprenticeship.  [/quote]

In other words, do what 99.9% of the people are not expected to do.  Why should I? Especially when my tax dollars subsidizes these MFs through tax breaks for their "non profit" status and research grants.

Also, have you been following the hearings on Social media's role?  Why can't Twitter/Facebook, etc. ask the senators to go take a hike and post their messages on physical bulletin boards?  They cannot and will not because they know they control the mechanism for efficient messaging delivery to the masses.. similar to how colleges control the mechanism to wealth delivery through higher education.  Why should I have to figure out alternative methods?[/quote]

What are you rambling about?  Here's an idea.  Save for college like the rest of us.[/quote]

Stop bleating like a sheepie..  I do have money saved. A ton.  The discussion here is about price gouging and extortion and whether or not we should be forced to hand over that money to these scamsters. You are welcome to pay list price.[/quote]

I'd like a Ferrari.  They're gouging me on the price there, too.[/quote]

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