Associates Degree - Cheaper / Easier of the Big 3?

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I think that it is absolutely absurd to have to pay the 2k for the credits but hey its their game and we have to play it if we want that piece of paper. I am still sorta trying to understand how that fee is even legal and the fact that it can be paid with financial aid is even more puzzling to me.

My wife and I just watched Cartel last night. Excellent documentary. It focused on K-12 but there are similar motives in 2- and 4-year schools as well; they just have to compete for the "vouchers" so they actually have to provide a real product.

While the film merely fleshed out a lot of what we have already seen and experienced ourselves, I am now convinced that much of what passes for "education" today is a racket geared to draw in as many tax dollars as possible to support the ever-growing political/union patronage mutual backscratch society. Colleges increase tuition because they are chasing the subsidies (in the form of grants and guaranteed loans), just like Adam Smith railed against.

And then they dumb down education to ensure people don't understand basic economics and can't ask "where did all the money go?" banghead

/rantover