<p>I’m not writing a novel or an essay. I’m conflicting with strangers about politics over the internet so please stop with these obscene statements. </p>
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<p>There isn’t a high job market for history majors unless you want to teach it or receive a P.h.D in it. </p>
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<p>Again, mom doesn’t work, dad makes a little over 100,000 (before taxes), and has two other children to look after. However, I’m not demanding any money so I’ll bee transferring at the end of this year. </p>
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<p>At least I don’t imply that liberals are charlatans, communists, anti capitalists, anti American, and see the need to take away money from the hard working</p>
<p>Hmm. History majors, of course, can do nothing but teach history. Interesting, I never thought of that. Maybe because it’s not true. </p>
<p>First of all, teaching history is a very very important job. Teaching people to analyse history, current events, documents is fundamental to our democracy. No?</p>
<p>With a history major one can also work for:</p>
<p>Historic Sites, Museums, and Organizations
Cultural Resources Management and Historic Preservation Organizations
Think Tanks</p>
<p>They can be:
Writers and Editors
Journalists
Documentary Editors
Producers of Multimedia Material
Information Managers
Archivists
Records Managers
Librarians
Politicians
Political analysts</p>
<p>And don’t forget:
Lawyers and Paralegals
Litigation Support
Legislative Staff Work</p>
<p>With their communications, writing, research, and analytical skills they are welcome in businesses across the land, including advertising, marketing, PR</p>
<p>I know you are just a college kid. The world is big. There is much for you to learn.</p>
<p>If you aren’t attending public school – even if your kids aren’t attending public school – your tax dollars that FUND public school still benefit you. Society as a whole is better off when it is better educated. Your tax dollars help put kids through school who wind up contributing back to society in various ways, making this country a better place to live.</p>
<p>That’s why we pay taxes in the first place. It’s to pay for benefits that we all share in some form. The conservative talking point that “I earned it all myself and therefore it’s all mine” is demonstrably incorrect. Simply by being in this country, you are taking advantage of a massive infrastructure that allows you to succeed in the first place. Like it or not, we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants. That infrastructure doesn’t come for free.</p>
<p>Columbia, I am truly appalled at your comments. They smack of entitlement, and are a wonderful representation of what’s -wrong- in this country.</p>
<p>The United States is a society. Societies are supposed to work collectively to benefit the whole. This means that we, as citizens are supposed to do whatever we can to better the country. The U.S. is slipping in education, so now more than ever tax money is needed to improve our educational system. We students should not suffer a sub-par education simply because were poor and not attending a private school!</p>
<p>In addition, I think it’s funny you’re whining about not getting grants, but yet don’t want public school kids to get tax money to better themselves?</p>
<p>Right so you should make other people bale you out from your education debts correct? Because God forbid you go to a state school like I have to.</p>
<p>Columbia09, did you not read the other messages in this thread? It’s not about bailing people out. It’s about the fact that we’re all part of the same infrastructure, and we all take advantage of it.</p>
<p>Funny, I would tell ILuvbooks94 that his idea of collectives and entitlement is what’s wrong with this country. In the US, we as citizens, are free to pursue our own life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. We are not required to work for “whatever we can to better the country”. I think the USSR tried that approach, and it did not work too well for them.</p>
<p>Sorry my parents can’t worry about other children while they could barely hold their own. Instead of my parents sending me to a better school so I could have a better education, they can’t because they have to worry about someone else. Look, would I rather bale out a student from his education debts then help a drug addict who’s on medicaid, yes. But we don’t live in a perfect world. Years ago if you went to college, it was very likely that you would get a job and pay off your debts. Going back to the public school system. The average P.S teacher has a C rating. The problem is we need education reforms so that the schools will only hire those who want to teach. There also has to be reforms on pensions, sick days, etc because teachers are taking advantage of them. I went to public elementary and intermediate school. I had teachers like this but I also had some very good ones as well. They don’t need more money just reforms.</p>
<p>You are indeed free to pursue your own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, but again, you’re pursuing it within an infrastructure that didn’t come for free. Acquiring that structure cost money in the first money, and it costs money to further keep it up and running. </p>
<p>It’s well-summed up by Elizabeth Warren:</p>
<p>"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you!</p>
<p>But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea — God bless. Keep a big hunk of it.</p>
<p>But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."</p>
<p>That’s ridiculous. There is no such thing as an underlying social contract to “take a hunk of that and pay forward”. The person who owns the factory does not have any moral obligation to take the fruits of his labor and hand them over to anyone else. None whatsoever. He took a risk to build a factory. He pays the required taxes and fee to build and operate his factory, and he provides jobs for his employees. He also provides a product that other people desire to have. He has more than fulfilled his side of the bargain. </p>
<p>How about you send me a hunk of your money? I could use it.</p>
<p>Iluv was, I believe, writing about the funding of public schools, not colleges.
And I don’t think the poster was complaining about going to a public university.</p>
<p>The point is that there is good reason to fund public schools with taxpayer money. You may not have kids in public school, but you still benefit from having those public school systems in our society.</p>
<p>"The point is that there is good reason to fund public schools with taxpayer money. You may not have kids in public school, but you still benefit from having those public school systems in our society. "</p>
<p>I would agree with this for K-12, as I think most everyone in the country does. The problem is that our country is facing some tough choices on what we can and cannot fund. We are way overdrawn on the credit card (i.e national debt), and the citizens who pay taxes are saying “no more, we pay enough”.</p>
<p>Dramadad: Columbia DID say he resents that his family has to pay taxes to support public schools, K-12. He said parents with kids in private schools should get a tax refund, among other things.</p>
<p>This made me laugh. A higher GPA does not mean you’re smarter, and the difficulty of a particular major is subjective – chemistry comes naturally to me, but philosophy baffles me. Does that mean philosophy is harder than chemistry? No, it just means I’m not good at philosophy.</p>