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1. about 6 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   Private school is a luxury, but some job training past high school would do this country a whole lot of good.

2. about 7 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   Is the GI bill available for anyone who does a hitch? I think requiring that before college would be a great idea. It wouldn’t have to be military, could be like the CCC during the depression. Most kids right out of high school could use some real world experience before they know enough to be making life decisions. I’m loving this more the more I think about it.

3. about 8 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   That’s another possible outcome. Either is possible and we won’t ever know since that isn’t the way history went.

4. about 8 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   And, I would not be against requiring all kids to do two years of some sort of community service. I think it would turn a lot of them into grownups, and I know way too many people who never made that transition— into their 80s. And, no buying your way out with bone spurs.

5. about 9 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   No, silly, I SAID public colleges. Anyone who wants to go to a private college can either get a scholarship or pay for it themselves. It’s like paying to swim in the country club pool instead of the public one, or paying to go to a private elementary school when the one in your neighborhood is available.

6. about 10 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   It actually would make a lot of sense to start phasing out daily delivery. Make it MWF for one route and put the same mailperson on another route TTS. Wouldn’t need to lay people off, many of them are close to retirement anyway. Just set the routes up that way as people retire, starting with smaller post offices first and offering routes in seniority order.

7. about 10 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   FDR used the outrage over Pearl Harbor to do what he wanted to do all along. Notice Pearl Harbor is in the 180 degree wrong direction from where he directed the earliest and most destructive attacks after Pearl Harbor. There were many Americans who were on Germany’s side, and even more who wanted to try to hide behind our nice big oceans and let whatever was happening on the other side of them just sort itself out. We owe the Japanese for the fact that I am not writing this in German.

8. about 10 hours ago on Kevin Kallaugher

   You can’t see the shining scalp through a toupee. He just has an orange dust bunny up there. Wonder how you dye a dust bunny?

9. about 10 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   The rich benefit from the caste system that keeps college out of the reach of all but those who are already well off. They can pay wages that require two or three jobs per household just to keep food on the table, while they keep the majority of the GNP produced by the people who are living that way. And, they are assured that future generations will remain in that situation, since tuition isn’t an option.

   The average college graduate pays about $7800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate (2023). Over 30 years, that totals about $234,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, THE GOVERNMENT MAKES MONEY ON AVERAGE ON EACH STUUDENT. This includes those who never, graduate, get degrees that don’t help get a job, or just generally don’t make it, because the majority do.

   This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes.

   The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, including trade schools, etc totally free, as long as the student is making decent grades, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. There is no better way to spend money than to invest it in our people, to give them every opportunity to be the best they can be. Yes, It’s good for them individually, but the country is made up of individuals, so what’s good for one is good for the country.. We don’t, even during a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.

10. about 10 hours ago on Clay Bennett

    You quoted a lie, you know it was a lie, and you know your source has been lying for years. Why do you enjoy being lied to so much?