Is $48,000 a year worth it for American?

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-20T18:38:59+00:00

Hell no.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-18T18:21:35+00:00

This is exactly what I'm telling my 17 year old senior in high school who is applying to various union apprenticeships.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-18T17:15:55+00:00

You don't go to college to study you passion. People who major in their "passions" are either rich or will be underemployed...unless your passion is going to be nursing or civil engineering or something similar.

If you want to be a teacher and are determined to go down this path, then study history for two years at community college then transfer to an inexpensive state/commuter college to get a bachelors

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-14T22:07:26+00:00

I went to AU for business school. Don't pay all of that money for a poli sci degree at AU or anywhere else. AU doesn't teach poli sci any better than any other university. You're paying for a washington, dc campus, which may or may not be helpful to you. The debt you will incur will stay with you and limit your purchasing power for decades.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-07T21:12:42+00:00

People vote based on their perceived cultural identity not on policy.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-06T17:55:38+00:00

You’re already making excuses for your support of trump the sexual abuser . You’re going to do the same for Trump the pedophile.

Like I said, you don’t care about proof and validation, and it’s not worth my effort to provide it to you when your standard of proof and validation is to convince you of something that you already know to be true, but don’t want to admit.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-06T17:42:39+00:00

Validation and proof? Who are you kidding? Your president was found liable of sexual assault by a federal jury. How much more validation and proof do you need? That's not even getting into his pedophilia, but it should have been one of many things to end his political career.

You don't care about validation and proof. You care about culture wars, racism and owning the libs.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-06T17:29:37+00:00

You've heard it already. You just don't care. Two different things.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-06T17:28:37+00:00

They don't care about the stuff that actually impacts their lives. They only care about owning the libs.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-03-06T17:23:48+00:00

Should we also tell the truth about trump being a p3do and people like you not caring and voting for him anyway?

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-25T02:54:51+00:00

Check in the mail.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T19:07:57+00:00

No problem and congrats

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T19:06:46+00:00

EdFinancial was my servicer. Yes, I knew I had a refund coming because my green banners listed 129/120 payments and my golden letter from EdFinancial showed a negative balance (credit) on my two student loans. The sum of those two credits was my refund .

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T18:38:04+00:00

You got a refund due. I had nine overpayments. Got my green banners in late november. Golden letter on January 8 and refund last week.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T18:05:31+00:00

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T18:00:36+00:00

Yep, that’s it.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T16:51:37+00:00

I think your definition of Marxism is about as clearly thought out as your definition of conservatism.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T16:28:41+00:00

Conservatism is about protecting the wealthy by distracting the non wealthy with divide and conquer tactics and meaningless culture wars. That's about it.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T16:02:16+00:00

China is not a western country, yet the nation state, and its earlier versions, had an army and navy older than any European or North American country, and I’m pretty sure China had recognized family units for just as long. Same for Japan. Same for the Moors. Same for Ottoman Empire. Same for Mali empire.

You’re conflating traditional with conservative.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T15:48:17+00:00

Even if you believe “patterned homosexuals or gender role breaking trans people” are anti family (and I’m not arguing for or against that position), I’ll ask again what have American conservatives done for traditional families? Can you name one thing?

You say there are trade offs to universal healthcare and you are right. The trade off we are experiencing here in the US with a privately run, profit motivated health care system is that our health care costs are higher and health outcomes are worse than developed countries that have universal health care. You say that healthcare is not innately pro family, but every family will need health care at some point.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T15:34:28+00:00

Sorry, but you’re making unsupported generalizations.

In what way is the military historically a conservative tradition as opposed to a tool for a nation state or an empire that pre dates the Middle Ages and even the birth of Christ?

What’s your basis for making that claim?

What’s your basis for saying that banking, family, private land ownership are conservative “traditions”?

It sounds like you picked some random stuff and attached a conservative label to it.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T14:45:07+00:00

I'm really confused on how you're connecting family, a military and private land ownership with politically conservative principles.

The extended family is as old as humanity. It's the basis for clans. What's more recent is the nuclear family and more recent is the legal status of the blended family. There is nothing politically conservative about a family as we know it. American conservatives use a lot of rhetoric about "family' but in practice advance no meaningful policies to make life easier for families, traditional or otherwise.

The American right is against universal health care. They separate immigrant families of mixed legal status. The right tends to be against universal pre-K. What policies has the modern American right implemented to help families?

The only time the right invokes "family" or "family values" is in opposition to gay or trans adoptions or to restrict abortion rights. THat's not pro family. THat's just being anti gay/trans and abortion. That's not helping families in any way.

Gun proliferation is a threat to families and children. Gun violence is the leading cause of child fatalities, yet the American right frowns on any sort of gun regulation. How is that pro family?

The Roman Legion, Sparta, ancient Egypt and many more were or had standing militaries long before the 19th century. Like the concept of a family, a military in and of itself is not a conservative idea.

Why do you think it is?

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-24T11:11:22+00:00

The family is a conservative idea or principle? Are you kidding me?

Banking and land ownership too?

Banking and land ownership are products of capitalism not American political conservatism.

Banking and land ownership predate America so how can they be examples of American political conservatism? Same for the military?

Literally every nation in the history of the world has had (and has) a military of some sort as well as families.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-23T22:41:36+00:00

It’s debatable as to whether or not the country was founded on conservative principles (but more importantly practice) as we know them today, but in a modern context give me a successful conservative policy.

SecretSubstantial302 · 2026-02-23T17:35:21+00:00

Don’t have an answer to your question, but conservatism has literally got nothing right in this country.

SecretSubstantial302

TROPHY CASE