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Santoka, Taneda
Santoka Taneda 1882-1940
(Pseudonym of Shoichi Taneda) Japanese poet.
Santoka is considered a unique proponent of "free-style" haiku poetry, a mode that abandoned much of the customary form and subject matter of traditional haiku in favor of a direct and unadorned depiction of human experience. A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest for the last fifteen years of his life, Santoka emphasized many of the essential qualities of Zen Buddhism in his verse, including mujo (impermanence), the necessity of sabi (solitude), the importance of simplicity in life, and the pervasive sadness that accompanies all human affairs. Many of his poems point toward the Zen goal of overcoming this ubiquitous melancholy by achieving spiritual enlightenment and serenity. To this view Santoka added his concern with what James Abrams called "the vital necessity of movement and the partial release it brings to the anguish of the soul."
Biographical Information
Santoka was born Shoichi Taneda in 1882, the son of a wealthy landowner from Hofu in western Japan. He studied literature at Waseda University in Tokyo, and while there began writing poetry. He adopted a pen-name, as is the custom among haiku poets, choosing the name Santoka, which can be rendered in English as "burning mountain peak." Excessive drinking and a severe nervous breakdown forced him to drop out of school in 1904, however. In the ensuing years he attempted to assist his father in running a sake brewery, but this too failed in all respects and contributed to Santoka's growing alcoholism. His arranged marriage in 1909 proved yet another failure in Santoka's personal life. Still, he continued with his literary efforts, and by 1911 had produced translations of such writers as Ivan Turgenev and Guy de Maupassant. The forthcoming years witnessed the steady influence of the haiku poet Seisensui Ogiwara on Santoka. Leader of the so-called "new tendency" or "free-style" school of haiku poetry, Seisensui was also founder of the literary journal Soun, of which Santoka became poetry editor in 1916. Meanwhile, Santoka made half-hearted attempts to maintain employment and support his family when not succumbing to his addiction to sakè. In 1924 he attempted suicide by standing in front of an oncoming train. Before impact, however, the train's engineer saw him and was able to stop. After the incident Santoka was taken to a nearby Zen temple in order to recover. He stayed there for a year, studying Zen Buddhism, and in 1925 was ordained a priest and placed in charge of a small temple. But by the following year Santoka had forsaken his clerical duties and left the temple to wander as a mendicant priest. With the financial support of some friends he published his first collection of haiku poetry, Hachi no ko, in 1932. That year several of his friends also renovated an old hermitage for Santoka, which he named "Gochuan," or "Cottage in the Midst." He stayed at Gochuan only briefly, opting instead to spend the rest of his life as he had the prior six years: as an impoverished, itinerant poet-priest, begging for money and food. He made another failed attempt at suicide several years later—this time with sleeping pills—and went on to publish six more collections of haiku verse before his death in 1940.
Major Works
Santoka published seven small books of haiku poetry containing approximately 800 of the thousands of poems he composed during his lifetime. Based on his experiences while wandering Japan as a mendicant, the haiku are written in an unadorned style and rarely contain more than ten words—although Santoka often labored meticulously over each poem. Simple in form, Santoka's poems dispense with the seasonal imagery and constraining five-seven-five syllable pattern of their traditional predecessors. In them Santoka confronts manifold subjects, making observations on the natural world, Zen philosophy, the loneliness and isolation of his wanderings, art, death, and the joys of drinking sake. The last of these forms a favorite topic for Santoka, both in his haiku and his life, the drink offers him a temporary release from his feelings of guilt, which inevitably would return, accompanied by a heightened sense of remorse over his dissipated life, with sobriety.
Critical Reception
Before his death Santoka was largely unknown outside of a small group of friends who read and circulated his poetry and at times supported him financially. By the 1970s, however, his verse had reached a point of remarkable popularity in Japan and elsewhere. The mass of his writings, including his published verse and unpublished journals and diaries, have since been collected in the seven-volume Teihon Taneda Santoka Zenshu (1972), and many of his haiku poems have now been translated into English and other languages. Scholars have since evaluated Santoka's place in the Japanese poetic tradition, seeing him as among the last in a lengthy line of wandering haiku poets. Others have begun to devote closer study to his break with tradition as a writer of "free-style" haiku and examine the intricacies of what J. Thomas Rimer has called his "laconic, deceptively simple" poetry.
Principal Works
Hachi no ko (poetry) 1932
Somokuto (poetry) 1933
Sangyo suigyo (poetry) 1935
Zasso fukei (poetry) 1936
Kaki no ha (poetry) 1938
Kokan (poetry) 1939
Karasu (poetry) 1940
Teihon Taneda Santoka Zenshu. 7 vols, (poetry and prose) 1972
Mountain Tasting: Zen Haiku by Santoka Taneda (poetry) 1980
R. H. Blyth (essay date 1964)
SOURCE: "Santoka," in A History of Haiku, Vol. II , The Hokuseido Press, 1971, pp.173-88.
[In the following essay, which was originally published in 1964, Blyth studies Santoka's haiku poems, especially as they signify the poet's acceptance of more melancholy aspects of life.]
To give a modern poet a whole chapter to himself, albeit a short one, may seem strange, but Santoka belongs to the small group of beggar-like haiku poets; Rotsu is another example, and Basho and Issa are not dissimilar. Santoka, was born in 1882 of a landowner in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After retiring from Waseda University on account of a nervous breakdown in 1904, he married, set up a brewery with his father, whose business had failed, and together with him went bankrupt in 1916. He had begun to write haiku already in 1911, under Seisensui. He separated from his wife in 1920, and tried various jobs, but did not continue in them. From 1926, with a kasa and a begging bowl, he wandered all over Japan for eight years, and then made a hermitage in 1932 back in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and yet another outside Miyukidera Temple. He ended his life of wandering and drinking in 1940.
Here are a few anecdotes of the life of Santoka, taken from Haijin Santoka, by Oyama Sumita. When the author visited Gochuan, the hut-hermitage where Santoka lived in 1938, Santoka asked him if he had had his midday meal. On hearing that he had not, he brought in an iron bowl of rice, and a single pimento, and put it on the tatami. Oyama began to weep, it was so hot. Santoka sat gazing at him, and on being asked, "Why don't you eat too?" told him, "I have only one bowl." Thinking of Ryokan, he finished his rice. Santoka took the bowl, filled it with rice (which was mixed with barley and other things) and ate it together with the remains of the pimento. Santoka washed the bowl in the water the rice was washed in, but did not throw away the water. He used it to wash the floor, and then as manure for his little garden.
One December, the author stayed the night with Santoka. There was only one quilt, so Santoka gave him this, and three magazines of Kaizo or Bungei Shunju for a pillow, and spread on the top of him his own underclothes and summer garments, and then everything that remained in the cupboard. As he was still cold, Santoka put his little desk over him, reminding us of what Thoreau says in The Week on the Concord, Tuesday:
But as it grew colder towards midnight, I at length encased myself completely in boards, managing even to put a board on top of me, with a large stone on it, to keep it down.
At last he went to sleep, and when he woke at dawn he found Santoka still sitting by him doing zazen.
Even though he had no rice, he would buy sake to drink, being unable to keep money in his pocket. Someone gave him a tombi, a kind of coat used in the Meiji Era. He was very pleased, for two or three days, and then gave it to someone else. One autumn Seisensui came to see him, and gave him a piece of calligraphy, Gochu ichinin, referring to his hut-hermitage. Santoka had it framed, and for some time enjoyed it, but then gave it away.
One night Santoka came home at two o'clock in the morning, followed by a dog with a very big rice-cake in its mouth. He received this and roasted it and ate it.
Santoka loved weeds, like Clare, and wrote in his diary for the 19th of August, 1940:
Those who do not know the meaning of weeds do not know the mind of Nature. Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth.
He wrote many verses on weeds. His view of life is given in another entry in his diary:
I do not believe in a future world. I deny the past. I believe entirely in the present. We must employ our whole body and soul in this eternal moment. I believe in the universal spirit, but the spirit of any particular man I reject. Each creature comes from the Whole, and goes back to it. From this point of view we may say that life is an approaching; death is a returning.
In these anecdotes about Santoka we see the naturalness of his life, his unattachedness to things, and his lack of plan in everything, like God's.
He put every ounce of his spiritual energy into his verses, which were often free as to form and season-word like those of his teacher Seisensui. He recalls to us Pascal, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Kraus, Rilke, and others of the "disinherited mind." The verses are a combination of Zen, Buddhism, and Japaneseness, the last word implying an innate appreciation of the transitoriness of life, the just-so-ness, the thus-ness of things, their existence value.
Ushiro-sugata no shigurete yuku ka
My back view as I go,
Wetted with the winter rain?
We may compare this with Issa's verse on a picture of himself:
Ushiro kara mite mo samuge na atama kana
Even seen from behind,
His head looks
But Santoka's verse is better, I think, because it gives us the picture of himself as viewed by the friends who are seeing him off.
Itsumademo tabi wo suru koto no tsume wo kiru
Up to the very end, it is journeying,
And cutting our (toe-) nails.
We must journey alone through life; and we must cut our toe-nails. These things are so, inevitably.
Furusato wa tokushite ki no me
My native place
Far away:
The buds on the trees.
When we are young, neither far nor near, youth nor age has any very deep meaning, but when we are old, distance and youth affect us beyond measure.
Tetsubachi no naka e mo arare
Into the iron bowl also,
Democracy is a weak word to express the universal, all-penetrating, indiscriminate, "religious" power of nature.
Kasa e pottori tsubaki datta
Plop on my kasa
The flower of the camellia!
This verse is very good in its onomatopoeia, not merely the pottori, but the datta at the end.
Itadaite tarife nitori no hashi wo oku
I have gratefully received it;
It was enough;
I lay down my chopsticks.
This would make a good death-poem. We have received what we were born to receive. We have had enough. We used our own chopsticks and fed ourselves. We now lay them down. Compare Landor's "I warmed both hands," which is however the verse of a well-off, artistic, and self-satisfied man.
Shizukana michi to nari dokudami no me
The road became quiet and solitary;
Dokudami is...
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James Abrams (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: "Hail in the Begging Bowl: The Odyssey and Poetry of Santoka," in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol . XXXII , No. 3, Autumn 1977, pp. 269-302.
[In the following essay, Abrams provides an overview of Santoka's life and work.]
Into my metal bowl too,
Taneda Santoka, 1882-1940, is one of the most recent and perhaps one of the last of a long and colorful line of priest-poets in Japanese literary history. An alcoholic and business failure who became a Buddhist priest after an attempted suicide at the age of forty-two, Santoka spent the last...
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John Stevens (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: In an introduction to Mountain Tasting: Zen Haiku by Santoka Taneda, translated by John Stevens, Weatherhill, 1980, pp. 9-29.
[In the following excerpt, Stevens discusses Santoka's poetry, life, and worldview.]
Recently, a remarkable interest in the life and poetry of the mendicant Zen priest Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) has developed in Japan. Collections of Santoka's haiku and accounts of his life are being published regularly. At present, more books on Santoka are available than perhaps on any other Japanese poet, ancient or modern. In addition, he is considered to be a great Zen master much like Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan. How is it that such an eccentric,...
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J. Thomas Rimer (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "The Poetry of Santoka (1882-1940)," in A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature, Kodansha International, 1988, pp. 121-23.
[In the following essay, Rimer discusses Santoka's life and "laconic, deceptively simple" haiku poetry.]
The reader who believes that art transcends its own times will surely take solace and inspiration from the work of Taneda Santoka (1882-1940), a remarkable Zen priest and poet of our century who produced poetry as personal and profound as that of his illustrious predecessor and spiritual mentor, Ryokan (1758-1831). Like Ryokan's poetry, Santoka's work can best be understood as a record of his quest for spiritual enlightenment, the kind...
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Bentley snubs Eagles
The rumors put him in Philadelphia. Instead, he went home to Ohio and signed with the Browns.
By Bob Brookover
Inquirer Staff Writer
Yes, that was another painful interception the Eagles were forced to endure yesterday.
This time, they watched helplessly as their primary free-agent target was picked off by the Cleveland Browns, a team that has had just one winning record in its seven seasons since returning to the NFL as an expansion franchise in 1999.
It was no secret that the Eagles wanted to sign unrestricted free agent LeCharles Bentley, and they thought they had an outstanding opportunity to do so. But when free agency finally opened at 12:01 a.m. yesterday, the Browns used their hometown advantage to sign the Pro Bowl center to a six-year deal worth a reported $36 million, including a $12.5 million signing bonus.
"He only had one team on his mind - the Cleveland Browns," said Jonathan Feinsod, one of the agents representing Bentley. "He's from Cleveland, he went to Ohio State, and that's where he wanted to play. I heard the rumors about the Eagles, but I don't know where they came from."
The consolation prize for the Eagles may end up being a defensive lineman from the New Orleans Saints, the team that employed Bentley last season.
Two league sources said that defensive end Darren Howard is scheduled to visit the Eagles today at the NovaCare Complex.
Howard drew the Eagles' interest two years ago when he was a free agent, but the team signed Jevon Kearse instead. Howard, 29, averaged nearly 71/2 sacks in six seasons with the Saints, including 11 two years ago. He had a career-low 31/2 sacks last season and missed the final four games with a knee injury.
The Eagles, according to multiple sources, also have struck a deal with tight end Matt Schobel, which they will announce either today or tomorrow. Schobel, who will serve as the backup to L.J. Smith, has agreed to a five-year deal worth $1.8 million. Schobel, a four-year veteran from TCU, has nine touchdowns among his 90 career catches with the Cincinnati Bengals. He had 18 catches for 193 yards and one touchdown last season and is considered an outstanding receiver.
Through a team spokesman, the Eagles denied that they ever had a deal in place with Bentley, as was reported by the Trenton Times yesterday. Feinsod also said that wasn't the case.
That spin is fine, but a close friend of Bentley's was telling people just before free agency originally was scheduled to open March 3 that the center was ready to sign a deal with the Eagles. There was also a strong feeling at One NovaCare Way that Bentley wanted to join the Eagles.
Why the change?
Most likely it was Bentley's ties to Cleveland. He was born and raised there, went to St. Ignatius High School, a football power in the city, and his family, including two children, remains there.
The Eagles, according to a league source, feared that Bentley might be leaning toward signing with the Browns earlier in the week when word leaked that Cleveland was trying to trade center Jeff Faine, a three-year starter and former first-round draft pick who is just 24 years old.
By sunrise, the Eagles knew Bentley was headed to Cleveland and they would have to look elsewhere to improve their offensive line.
The news about Bentley probably wasn't quite as jarring to the Eagles as watching Dallas safety Roy Williams return that Donovan McNabb interception for a touchdown in the Monday Night Football game that ended the Eagles' playoff hopes and the quarterback's season. But it was an awful way to open the free-agent season that they hope they can use to recover from a 6-10 record that was matched by the lowly Browns.
Cleveland, which has a lot of money to spend, was the busiest team in the NFL on Day 1 of free agency. They also signed Atlanta left tackle Kevin Shaffer and Seattle receiver Joe Jurevicius.
What now for the Eagles' offensive line?
If it's really a center that they want, they could try to sign veteran Kevin Mawae, who was recently released by the New York Jets or maybe they could attempt to trade for Faine. Mawae has received interest from a number of teams, including Miami and New England.
If the Eagles do not sign a center, they will likely rely on Jamaal Jackson, with veteran Hank Fraley in a backup role.
It will be interesting to see if Bentley's decision changes the Eagles' approach with veteran offensive tackle Jon Runyan, an unrestricted free agent who has yet to receive an offer from the team. The Eagles have not given up on the idea of re-signing Runyan, but he is definitely testing his market value.
Despite losing out on Bentley, the Eagles still feel as though they can make some significant moves to upgrade their roster in free agency. And even though some big names went off the board yesterday, there's still talent out there.

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Macca is still the man of great action for our animals who can't speak for themselves. He now does it with the help of his new wife Heather who is also head of the "No More Land Mines" campain.
I was at work chatting about Paul with a co-worker the other day and he raised an interesting point.
He said Paul is doing even more now for or fury friends than ever before because it helps keep Linda around. I suppose he means Paul enjoys helping and cares deeply on a personal level from doing just that, but he still feels he's in this with not only Heather now but with Linda too.
This extra campaigning Paul seems to be doing keeps Linda at his side like an angel on his shoulder.
I didn't really notice that he is doing more, or putting more time and effort into charity.....but anyway.
It seemed like a nice thing for my co-worker to say...and I thought I'd share it.
Ofcoarse I also spread the word of Maccacentral/Radio to him during our conversation. Which I consider my cause and I hope he joins or family.


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Yes, very cool.
And as we know, the tape speed on LIB was changed by Spector to a slow mood, what I disliked a bit...seems that John was just like sleepy in the recording session.
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""Many years ago, our company founder, Al Conklin, sold a new twin-engine business aircraft to a very successful entrepreneur. He had established a bit of a rapport with the individual and, after the sale, asked him straight out, 'How can you justify the cost of this airplane?' His reply? 'What is the cost of a divorce?'"–David Wyndham, president, Conklin & de Decker"
Ben Franklin Was Wrong— But What's Right?
Unless you hang your hat in Delaware or New Hampshire or live in one of the few countries that don't assess sales tax, you probably hand money to the government almost every time you buy something. In many U.S. states, the levy on purchases runs 5 to 7 percent or more and, with local surtaxes, you can wind up paying as much as 15.5 percent on most purchases.
If you're feeling the pain, you may be glad to hear that Ben Franklin was at least half wrong when he said nothing is certain except death and taxes. True, we're still stuck with mortality, though Google did recently form a company aimed at delaying or eliminating it. (I'm not making this up.) But as for government levies, Franklin clearly had no clue about the loopholes future legislators would create—or about how many lawyers would be standing by to help you jump through them.
When it comes to sales and use taxes, for example, one West Coast U.S. law firm is so confident that it can facilitate your claim for an exemption that it promises to do so even before reviewing your situation. "We guarantee you will legally avoid California sales and use tax on your purchase," says its ad, which points out that "although our expertise began with California, we have advised many clients on how they can legally minimize or even avoid sales and use tax in various states across the nation." Another law firm with the same specialty not only boasts a "100 percent success rate" but claims it may be able to help you sidestep tax on purchases you've already made—even if the transaction occurred up to a decade ago.
Wow. But here's the caveat: as the ads from these firms explain, the loopholes they're talking about won't work at your local department store. They apply only to certain ultra-high-end items like yachts and—you guessed it—business jets. If you're in the market for such an item, though, the good news is that your savings could amount to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.
Is that fair? After all, if buyers of all products could use this dodge, how would states and municipalities find the funds to provide the services they need to deliver?
Not to worry, suggest some proponents of the tax-avoidance approach, because with the money you don't pay the government on your airplane or yacht purchase, you can buy even more things for yourself or grow your business, and that will ultimately help everybody. As a not-too-articulate client of one of the aforementioned law firms put it in an online testimonial, "We saved in excess of $250,000 and there was extra capital to do better business in contribution for economic growth."
At least one pilot clearly rejects that trickle-down argument. As he wrote in a posting on our sister website, ainonline.com:
I'm embarrassed that so many in the flying community seem to feel entitled to exemptions from sales taxes—a tax that everyone else...has to pay.…We cheer at government subsidies for repair and enhancement to the airports and facilities we use but grumble and, worse, whine like overprivileged children when asked to pay the same tax rate on our planes and propellers and annual inspections that our less-wealthy neighbors have to pay for their children's shoes and school supplies and—in some states—food and medicine. Shame on us. We're spoiled brats, the very model of the 'takers' we blame for the ills of our society. We should pay our taxes like everyone else.
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Refinery impact claims don't hold up
An effort by a state senator to help lower gasoline prices in Michigan seems simplistic and naive to us.
Last week, state Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, proposed legislation to attract a new, small refinery to Michigan. The proposed legislation would offer the refinery a 10-year property tax and business tax abatement as a carrot to locate in the state.
Saying the refinery would make gasoline for the Michigan market, Jones credits his inspiration to the frustration in Lansing with fuel prices that skyrocket periodically.
"I'm responding to my constituents; I'm trying to do something," Jones said in an Associated Press article.
Although his goals are admirable, the legislation proposed by Senator Jones won't come close to accomplishing what he wants. In fact, thinking one small refinery will impact gasoline prices statewide is just plain naive.
We are all frustrated with the high and fluctuating price of fuel. It impacts everyone – from the motorists filling up their tanks to consumers paying higher prices for products because the increased cost of transporting them is added on. The reasons the price of gasoline rises seem almost mystifying to most people. Many things impact them – most which are completely out of anyone's control. Refinery shutdown/repair, the weather, political turmoil overseas, market speculation and a host of other factors all play a role from time to time on the price we pay at the pump.
What Jones is doing is admirable – trying to do something to combat rising gasoline costs. Should his legislation pass, it will help whatever area the refinery is located in by creating jobs and boosting the economy there. That's good for Michigan.
Will this legislation make an impact on gasoline prices in Delta County, the Upper Peninsula, or the rest of Michigan? Absolutely not. The addition of one small refinery shouldn't be toted as a solution to high gasoline prices in Michigan.
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Actually, the four-rotor helicopter in this video was tightly controlled by a computer. I just wanted to get your attention. Some University of Pennsylvania students have been having too much fun. The computer programs the motions needed to jump through windows, or slam into a Velcroed target. Notice the developers have placed strong netting between themselves and their invention.
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In another dramatic field-event competition, the biggest casualty of the day came in the men's long jump.
2008 USA indoor champion Trevell Quinley moved from third to first on his last jump of 8.36m/27-5.5 (+1.6), a huge personal best by 14cm. With the leap, he knocked Brian Johnson down to second (8.30m/27-2.75) and Miguel Pate to third (8.22m/26-11.75). Competing on the same runway where he suffered a near career-ending knee injury in 2003, Pate was the comeback story in the jump final, leaping up and down the runway after securing his spot for Beijing.
Dwight Phillips won't have the opportunity to defend his 2004 Olympic gold medal in the event. The two-time world champion fell from third to fourth in the fifth round of jumping and was unable to move back to third on his sixth and final jump. He was less than an inch out of third, with a best of 8.20m/26-11).


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Skip to comments.White House Denies Any 'Substantive' Edits To Benghazi Memo
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The White House says it made only minimal changes to the now-discredited talking points used to discuss the deadly attack last year on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
The remarks, by White House press secretary Jay Carney, came in response to an ABC News exclusive on Friday that detailed changes to a memo used by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to discuss the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack in the days after it happened.
Rice's remarks on several Sunday morning talk shows days after the attack, in which she wrongly characterized them as germinating from protests sparked by a YouTube video offensive to Muslims, have long been called out by Republicans and were fodder for the 2012 campaign.
On Friday, ABC reported that it had obtained 12 different versions of the talking points contained in a series of emails "that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack."
At a news conference on Friday, Carney disputed the assertion that the emails reveal substantive changes at the behest of the White House or State Department.
He said the only edit to the talking points made at the request of the administration was "a matter of nonsubstantive factual correction" that involved changing the word "consulate" in reference to the U.S. compound in Benghazi to "diplomatic post".
Carney also reiterated that President Obama, in his first public remarks on the attack, referred to it as an "act of terror."
However, the emails reportedly show excised references to al-Qaida and Ansar al-Sharia, the group ultimately blamed for the attack.
"The concern was the points not provide information that was speculative," Carney told reporters. He said that at the time, it was only speculation that Ansar al-Sharia was involved and that the administration did not know that "concretely."
The talking points were originally written for Congress. But before Congress got them, references were deleted to terrorism by the intelligence community, and to prior warnings of a possible attack.
ABC reports that an email from State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland shows that she was "concerned" that a section of the talking points saying the U.S. could not rule out that the attackers "previously surveilled U.S. facilities" would be "abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that, either?"
Oh OK.....must be me : )
Well, that settles that issue. Let's move on. Old news.
RE: Old news.
That's what Jay Carney said. Did he use the words : "Ancient History" ?
So it was the same lies!
I watched most of that interview as it happened. I wonder what planet Carney is living on?
FWIW, it looked like a lot of the reporters were incredulous with his answers, but they couldn't come to actually start asking him the kind of questions that would make him mad. I think they love their position so much that the soft pedal any hard questions so they can maintain that position.
I thought a couple of the reporters wanted just tell Carney that he was an idiot for thinking he could tell them "no substantive changes were made" to the talking points by the White House or State Dept.
"act of terror"
Of course, 0bama referred to it as a scary thing. He was terrified of it. Still is.
Deny...deny...deny. Its the Alinsky method.
I guess it all depends on what the meaning of the word substantive is....
Shouldn't we start some kind of fr-office pool to when Carney steps down. More time with the family and all......
So.... Why do we have to pay for SO MANY people in SO MANY agencies making SO MANY changes to a document, if they're not substantive changes?
Twitter has a new hash tag.....#JayCarneyExcuses
Pretty funny stuff.....LOL
Sydney Berger knows how to destroy the compromising drafts stored in the National Archives.
They hate us for our freedoms, in this case- You Tube.
How much longer are the American people going to just sit there and allow their intelligence to be insulted by their government?
It's hard not to get a giddy feeling about all this, but we've seen these slimy bastids get away before with the help of the MSM.
IOW, their careers hang in the balance and they credibly believe if they push too hard with their questions, so as to make someone in the administration mad, they could easily get fired with one phone call to their boss.
IOW, they are content to act as if they're journalists when in fact, they're knowingly part of a corrupt political system that very effectively stifles criticism while paying them six-figure salaries and expense accounts.
All politics aside, this was absolutely filthy dealing.
The President's posturing and dithering gets on my nerves, sure. But I can't bother to get too worked up about it.
This is different - the administration knew that American servicemen and diplomatic representatives of our nation were going to murdered by terrorists.
They knew it was going to happen and they had the notice they needed to react, they had resources they needed to react, they had every justification any nation could ever need to do the right thing.
And instead, they sat back waiting for those men to die - and the only thing they did while they were waiting was to come up with a good cover story for the media.
It is unforgiveable.
But wasn't the youtube video excuse "speculative"?
The usual MO "we don't know nothin' and nobody really did it and what does it matter because it was so long ago?" I wonder if he ever actually watches the replays of his absurd commentary?
May 10, 2013 - Interview Podcast: Victoria Toensing, attorney for Gregory Hicks with (host) Melody Burnes on Talk 1300.
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They get away with crap like this because the low information voter is completely unable to tell The Big Lie when it is being used. This guy uttered one big lie after another and just kept repeating it so perhaps even he thought it was the truth....maybe that is why the press meeting was delayed for two hours or more, he had to recall those sentenses by rote. The answer to the question: you say there were two minor word usage changes but there were 11 revisions of the entire news release with complete areas removed, how does that square? was responded to with some mumbo jumbo about various agencies having input, as usual. It was so orweillian, I had to turn it off.
Wasn't the Amassador Stevens dragged through the streets and sodomized? How could they lie when something that Terrible took place?
More Whistleblowers are ready to speak out. This may not go away for awhile, until the media finds something to change the subject.
Sure, just a few stylistic things. Sure, nothing was ever edited. Editing is a myth. It doesn't actually exist.
Where did this Piece of Shit come from? He makes Ron Ziegler and Robert Gibbs seem like Press Secy angels.
When you look in the dictionary for the word "LIAR" you'll find this picture of Carney.
Isn't a "carney" a huckster, a false promises mouthie, a Democrat?
"We only cut off 3 three fingers from one hand and 2 fingers from the other hand - you are basically an unchanged person."
I wasnt involved in the talking points process.... As I understand it, as Ive been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever was going to be made publicly available, and it was an intelligence product.
With all due respect,the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?Hillary Clinton
Benghazi Jay's ears can't believe the bs he is spreading at this outhouse press mugging conference.
"With new details emerging in the Benghazi-gate controversy, the White House held a background discussion with more than a dozen news organizations. Shown below is Herr Obozo pleading with his out house mediots to save his butt!"
" Shouldnt we start some kind of fr-office pool to when Carney steps down. More time with the family and all......"
LOL....why not?
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Over the last several years, there has been a growing interest in "Socially Responsible Investment" (SRI) as people think not only about their financial legacy but also about the type of world they will leave to future generations, says Pictet Sustainability Expert Christoph Butz. Yet, while interest in SRI has grown, there are a limited number of SRI bond and fixed-income products on the market.
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He was arguably the second-best Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler in the world.
Yet, when it was time to pack bags for the world championships and the last two Olympics, he was the one who had to stay home. Only one wrestler could qualify in each weight class.
For seven years, Dremiel Byers wrestled in Rulon Gardner's giant shadow.
"That's the nature of the beast," said Byers, who balances his wrestling career with his duties as a U.S. Army supply sergeant. "We knew that's the way it was and still is. There can be only one. That makes it that much more of an honor when you earn the spot to walk out there and represent your country.
"Being a soldier, I'm able to serve and represent my country. I consider myself very fortunate. You think about that in your training. You think about that as you approach each day and each competition when you dissect your competitors. You don't want to be the guy who walks off the mat and didn't get his hand raised.
For seven years, Gardner was the one who usually had his hand raised. Now, Byers is.
Gardner retired four years ago in that special sports moment at the Athens Olympics where he untied his wrestling shoes, left them on the mat and walked off in tears after winning the bronze medal. Four years
later, it's Byers' turn to wrestle in the Olympics after seeing Gardner carry U.S. hopes in Athens with his bronze medal and Sydney where he won the gold.
Training partners in the wrestling room, Byers and Gardner were best friends away from the gym, and they still are.
"We definitely pushed each other," said Byers, 2002 world champion and bronze medalist last year. "Our friendship meant a lot. It's a value to have someone like that in your corner giving you advice. Just to be there for him was an honor.
"Not many guys could have pushed me as hard as he did, and not many guys could have pushed him as hard as I did. We both benefitted from training together and hanging out together. That's one of the good things about USA Wrestling and the room we came out of."
Three years after Gardner's retirement, Byers and his teammates have won something Gardner never did. Last year, Byers and the American team won its first world championship in Baku, Azerbaijan, beating Russia by a single point.
"A lot of people worked many, many years to get us that medal," said U.S. national team coach Steve Fraser, who won America's first Greco-Roman Olympic championship in 1984. "It gives us the confidence that we need going into this Olympics. We've got a nice mix of veterans and some so-called rookies.
"I truly believe that each of one our six athletes competing has the potential to win a medal, if not the gold medal."
Except for two-time world bronze medalist Harry Lester, the U.S. team that won the world championship emerged after training with a proven champion or a veteran who retired. Lester was upset in this year's Olympic Trials by Jake Deitchler, only 18 years old.
Long before then, Byers had escaped from Gardner's shadow after watching him win the gold medal in Sydney on his television set at home.
"I've said many times," Byers said. "That guy (Gardner) got in front of the cameras after he got his medal, and he made no doubt about it. He said he's not the only guy from the United States that can win this thing. And I was listening."
Two years later, Byers won his world championship medal. In 2004, he went to Athens with Gardner as his training partner after losing to the former Olympic champion in the U.S. Trials.
"I told him as we walked off the mat, 'If there's anything you need from me, I'll be there for you.' That's the way we were," Byers said.
"Selfless service is part of it. It's us against them. I went to Athens with him, and I watched and I learned. Now, it's my turn."
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3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: Nov. 29
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What's happening in small business today?
1. Fast-food workers strike in New York in an effort to unionize. The New York Times is reporting that fast-food employees at several restaurants including McDonald's, Wendy's, Domino's and Taco Bell walked off the job on Thursday, protesting low wages and retaliation against workers who have supported the unionization campaign. Experts are saying that it was the biggest effort so far to unionize fast-food workers in the U.S.
Past campaigns have been challenging because fast-food jobs have high turnover, one expert tells the Times.
The Times, citing the New York State Labor Department, says median pay for fast-food workers in New York City is around $9 an hour, or about $18,500 a year for a full-time worker.
Yet one labor relations professor says the campaign to unionize will be difficult, particularly against large corporate-owned restaurants.
"It will be harder to unionize them than carwash workers because the parent companies will fight hard against it, because they worry if you unionize fast-food outlets in New York, that's going to have a lot of ramifications elsewhere," Richard W. Hurd, a labor relations professor at Cornell, tells the Times.
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Skip to comments.Forgive us our student loan debt (Is forgiving debt a moral issue?)
Posted on 04/28/2012 6:42:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We need to start taking student loan debt seriously, both as a troubling moral issue and as a ticking economic time bomb. By some reports, student loan debt will exceed 1 trillion dollars this year, more than the credit card debt of all Americans.
A whole generation of young Americans is at risk in this excessive borrowing. They fall further and further behind in servicing their debt because they have no way to keep up with the payments as many of them are unemployed or underemployed. They will delay starting marriage and families; they dare not take the risk of quitting a paying job (if they have one!) and starting their own business to create jobs, and they certainly cannot save to buy a home. They are trapped.
Jesus teaches his disciples to pray, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. (Matthew 6:12) Forgiving debt is a moral issue. Forgiving some of the worst of this student debt is crucial literally to save this American generation.
President Obama has recently taken steps to ease student loan debt burdens. But the problem is too big. Some of this student debt needs actual legislation to deal with the whole system of the debt as Robert Applebaum calls for on his Web site, ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com.
Applebaum contends that executive orders can only do so much. It will take legislation that covers predatory practices as well as other changes to the way student loans are structured such as how interest is compounded. Applebaum also argues persuasively that forgiving student loan debt will stimulate the economy.
The kind of moral equality that Jesus asks us to pray for in the Lords Prayer can be seen in Applebaums argument. Jesus calls on us to pray, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If the debt is forgiven, will that fact show up on a credit report? If so, I will make a point to NEVER hire anyone who had their debt forgiven.
Taxpayers should forgive student loans when the IRS is willing to forgive us for not paying our taxes.
All three of my sons are college graduates. They all worked to pay for their education. I don't see where it did them any harm. One of them even paid his way thru Medical School and is now a Board Certified Surgeon.
What could be better?
"The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.." Psalm 37:21
Soooo will the schools be giving some of their tuition earnings back too?
I worked my way thru college also...and I believe people who do that appreciate life more, and are able to face challenges better. Those who do not are, in my opinion, usually spoiled brats.
Under IRS rules if the debt were forgiven it would be considered taxable income and, to use an example, a $100,000 student loan would become $100,000 in taxable income taxes due immediately, with penalties and interest if not paid.
Thanks Vince for your reply - it gives me some understanding of the workings of your system. Seems to me that students would have to be really wise about what courses they took and from which University under your system as a private University could package up any old crap and call it something like ....'Women's Studies' and charge through the nose for it.
Still at least a more free market education sector allows for more choice!
Really. I probably wrote and researched as much there as I did on any of my degrees.
What's wrong with pay as you go? I worked nights and went to school days. My company was nice enough to help with tuition as long as I maintained a certain GPA. It took me a little longer, but I graduated debt free.
When China forgives us our trillions of dollars in Giveaway spending come talk to me,or when the Bank says you dont have to pay your Mortgage,or your car payment come talk to me. Until then ,work your way through a college you can afford and you wont have to woory about Mountains of debt. The government never should have been put in charge of student loans or Home Loans . With the Crew running the Country now this was all too predictable,election time Forgive everyones debt the suckers who are still lucky to have a Job will Pay the freight for those living beyond their means,vote for me
Yep - and another version uses the word 'tresspasses" to indicate it is things we have done wrong, not "gifts" we have received. I hate it when folks pervert the BIble's Truth in order to push an agenda. Happens way too much, even in Churches.
The Old Testament told folks to forvive debts after seven years - that was for individials, not for a "collective" like the government who steals from us to pay others. I also believe it was for the peace of mind of the one whoi didn't get paid back - forgiving the tort is a way to provide closure and put it behind you so it doesn't continue to eat your lunch and make you think and act in ways you wouldn't ordinarily do.
The Bible is Human Nature Exemplified and Explained with Common Sense Advice, inspired by He who created us and should know how we rock and roll.
Nothing wrong at all with that - My nephew and niece did so but not everyone is as hard working as them I suppose!
Maybe just liberals should take on the tax burden of all the defaulted student loans. After all, it was liberals who decided that every person was entitled to a college degree at top tier university and that it was the government's duty to provide the money for that person to attend.
If you dissented, you were called anti-education.
Of course, the goal was to enslave another demographic group to big government.
"Wow Susan! Way to misquote the Bible to advance your own progressive agenda!"
That's for sure...as if there is only monetary debt. The version I first learned was "Forgive us our trespasses...as we forgive those who trespass against us." That actually gives it an entirely new literal meaning.
Besides that, when did any of these libs ever give a hoot what The Bible says about anything?
RE: Besides that, when did any of these libs ever give a hoot what The Bible says about anything?
ANS: When their interpretation of a passage advances their personal agenda.
Having taught college myself for the past six years, I have to disagree with your projections. Yes, there is some course content that could be covered online, and when I was a student I took one online course (rather useless, as it turned out), and several of my other professors offered copious online resources for independent learning. Now that I'm on the other side of the desk, I also make good resources available to my students, but quite frankly nothing can replace conscientious hard work, let alone class discussion. And even when I do put stuff online, a very small percentage of my students rely on it, since they know I cover most of the important material in lecture.
Perhaps more to the point, putting a class online doesn't drive costs down anywhere near the "tens of dollars a unit" that you suggest. Instructor salaries are roughly the same for online and in-person courses, and while class management software isn't quite as expensive as physical classroom buildings, the college still has to invest a lot in infrastructure, bandwidth, etc. It's simply not true that an online course consists of a few static HTML pages followed by "click here to take the final exam"!
The debt does not vanish, "forgiving" debt is merely forcing someone else to pay for it.
Someone else did not accrue the debt.
Why should they pay for it??
Under my proposal, You'd be out of a job. Isn't that true?
Inasmuch as you are one of those who benefits from the high cost of education, I don't see how you can look at this objectively. The fact of the matter is that very few students actually participate in live classroom discussion and an online undergraduate course could be viewed by thousands of students at a time, thus significantly reducing the cost of a worthless liberal arts degree.
As xzins and I pointed out, we both learned more in our online discussions on theology in the Free Republic Religion Forum than he learned in all his college courses leading to his advanced theology degree. If college were online and the discussions were set up like Free Republic, then I think we could make an undergraduate degree something that NOBODY would have to go into debt to obtain.
Tell me, what was your undergraduate degree in, and what did you learn that you could not have learned in an online environment much cheaper?
And inasmuch as you're a dumbass who's already prejudiced against both the liberal arts (my degrees are in literature, to answer your question) and who wants to fire anyone who holds different political views, I see no reason to waste my time with you.
Appalling, isn't it? Every time, every single time, the govt gets involved, costs and economic mechanisms go out of control.
The govt forced banks to make mortgage loans without the borrowers establishing they had any way to repay .. we had the mortgage crisis. Govt forced banks to lend tuition/room/board/fees/living expenses loans to students without any way of showing those loans can be repaid and, presto, a looming student loan crisis.
There was a time when students went to the college or university they and/or their families could afford. The student might have had to alternate going to work for a year/going to school for a year until graduation. But they didn't graduate with impossible debt because there were virtually no loans available, much less loans forced on lenders by a generous government.
Insults. The last refuge of a man who has no arguments. Typical of a liberal.
I have to agree that a literature degree and $5 will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Am I prejudiced against liberal arts degrees? When they are literally worth less than a certificate from a cosmetology school and cost 200 times as much, then I guess I am prejudiced against them. If getting a degree in Literature was as cheap as getting a degree in hair cutting, then I would not care one bit about the cost of a worthless education. But people are literally spending $200,000 to get a "Literature" degree from a University, when they can read all that crap online for free at Gutenburg.org.
Tell me, do you think it is wise in this day and age to borrow $200,000 to get a degree that is literally not worth the paper it is printed on? Would it not make sense to make getting that degree as cheap as getting a Cosmetology license or an X-Ray Technician license? Both of those jobs pay better than starting teachers and both of them are in more demand.
"...is this fair democracy to all the past generations who have paid their student loan debt as they agreed to do?"
That may be true for you and others posting here, but student loans were made exempt from dischargeability even in bankruptcy precisely because so many who came before did not honor their student loan repayments.
The author can forgive all the student debt she wants - with HER MONEY!
The problem is, the libtards want to forgive debt that isn't owed to them but is owed to the taxpayer. That's ME.
I'm sick and tired of carrying the deadwood in this country. Let 'em get off their dead butts and pay down their own student loans. I pay my dues in life - it's time for the liberals to pay theirs.
Let's review.
You learned nothing in college, by your own admission.
Yet, you claim to know enough about how higher education works to replace it for less than 1% of the cost.
When I calmly explained to you why your conclusions were incorrect, you refused to grant my argument any legitimacy. Now you have extended your prejudice to include every single person who has a degree (i.e. who is smarter than you) in an intellectual field.
Sounds like you're the liberal one here. Don't let the door hit you on your way out of the thread.
I am a Christian, but since when is the Washington Post Christian? If the nation wishes to embrace the teachings of Christ I support that, but those teachings come as a bundle, not a la carte. Take them all or remain separate from the church.
I have a liberal arts undergrad with a Juris Doctorate post grad. I have been a practicing attorney for over 25 years and I am a certified expert in my field of practice. I borrowed a total of $12,000 to get all my degrees.
Frankly I could have learned all the crap I learned in Law School by just studying and participating in online courses. There was nothing magical about the classroom experience that made me what I am.
The only reason people think they need a degree from a Brick and Mortar university is because they think they need a degree from a Brick and Mortar University. As this article points out, today a 4 year degree in anything other than pre-med, engineering or chemistry is not worth the paper it is printed on, much less the $200,000 that some people are borrowing to get one.
I worked full time while going to law school. I had three kids at the time. I didn't spend my days going to school and my nights drinking and partying and borrowing money that I hoped I'd never have to pay back and that the government would one day forgive.
Sounds like youre the liberal one here. Dont let the door hit you on your way out of the thread.
LOL. I'm not the one arguing for keeping the unsustainable status quo. I'm arguing for conservative solutions to the high cost of education. You're just mad because my solutions might just bring down your salary and are threatening your distinguished career as a "Literature" Professor.
Are you actually encouraging your current students to get a degree in Literature? Do you know how many Starbucks baristas have advanced degrees in Literature and English and Women's Studies and other stupid liberal arts subjects? I would venture to say MOST of them. Most of the rest are either on the unemployment lines or sitting in some "Occupy Something" protest and refusing to bathe.
Bring down my salary? It's at $1400/month right now, but don't let that get in the way of your twisted fantasies.
Your cliche about $200,000 for a "worthless" degree is both inaccurate and getting old real fast. And you do realize that you're using the same talking points as the leftist who wrote the article, right?
And I will only tell you this once: if you insult my profession one more time, you will regret it.
My daughter makes more than that every 2 weeks waiting tables part time. I put more than that every month into my 401k.
Your cliche about $200,000 for a worthless degree is both inaccurate and getting old real fast.
ROFLOL! You have an advanced degree in "Literature" and you are making a whopping $1400 a month?
I rest my case!
And I will only tell you this once: if you insult my profession one more time, you will regret it.
If you are making $1400 a month, then you are not working in a profession. You are at best working in a vocation. Starting salary for full time work at Wal Mart is $1600 a month.
BTW I'm an attorney. Everyone on the planet insults my profession and for good reason.
Please explain to me why I have to tolerate this abuse on FR. I have submitted several message alerts with no response.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
You called me a "dumbass" and indicated that every person with a degree is "smarter than you" and then you claimed that I was "using the same talking points as the leftist who wrote the article."
My point was that there needs to be a cheaper way for someone to get a worthless degree like a Masters in Literature than to borrow $200,000. I suggested that online courses for liberal arts degrees would be the most cost effective way of doing it since there is literally no need to go to a building to learn all that useless information when you can sit in your mother's basement and read the same crap.
And then when I suggest out that your advanced liberal arts degree is not even worth the paper it is printed on, you confirm it by bragging that you are making $1400 a month teaching college! You literally proved my point.
And then after this is pointed out, you go and cry to the moderator when your feelings are hurt.
Your forum page notes that you think there are a lot of jackasses that post here on Free Republic. Hmmmmmm.
You gotta admit the line about sitting in an "Occupy Something protest refusing to bathe" is really funny!
And think about it. Conservatism must take back the education field from the liberals. A new way to be educated is one idea on how to do that.
No frontal assault. Just an end around.
Well, from what I can see, you are the one who started the name-calling in post 72. If you are going to dish out it, don't complain to the mods if you get it back in return.
Oh, and don't EVER make a threatening post again like you did in post 81.
Noted. I apologize for the threat, but I do believe that Marlowe was being unnecessarily mean.
It looks more and more like Free Republic is only the right place for a very specific kind of conservative.
Well, let's see. You called him a dumbass. And implied that his intelligence was subpar.
You are in no position to complain about how you were treated on this thread. It has nothing to do with any "kind" of conservative and everything to do with the fact that your own posts set the tone for your exchange with p-marlowe.
Alright, I give up. Marlowe, I'm sorry I called you a dumbass. I still believe that you are wrong about the nature of higher education and the best approach to fix it, but I should have stuck to policy.
Oooooooohhhh...aaaaahhhhhh........P-Marlowe, must be hiding in his momma's closet!!!
That was neither mature nor necessary, Osage Orange. Do you have a substantive contribution to make to the policy debate?
35 years later, I have a greater appreciation of the value of a liberal arts education. I have memories of a couple of theology and philosophy classes that resonate to this day. However, times have changed, as have the financial requirements for attending college. Is a liberal arts education worth racking up student loan debt in excess of $100K? Of course not, and the naivete of these young men and women pursuing such a course is appalling.
However, I also have an appreciation for the fact that my 23 YO son has more disposable income in one of his paychecks than I have in two, and he works 25 hrs/week for the TSA. Of course, he has no expenses, other than keeping his GF happy...lol!
He's one of the good guys there. He's been using his customer service skills from his previous sales jobs to reduce the edginess of his coworkers.
You wrote this:
"And I will only tell you this once: if you insult my profession one more time, you will regret it."
...And you are calling me immature? ROFLOL!!!
The question is....sthguard...did YOU have anything worthwhile to add to this conversation??
FWIW, based on your posts in this thread...I don't think you want to go down this path with me.
Quit now while you can...but I figure you won't.
We're dealing with a couple key assumptions here:
1. There is no intrinsic value to a liberal arts education.
2. It's impossible to pursue a liberal arts degree without taking out massive loans (the $200K figure is tossed around a lot).
Regarding Assumption #1:
Even assuming that most liberal arts graduates end up teaching for a living (which isn't automatically the case, though it's certainly more common in some fields than others), that doesn't guarantee a life of poverty. Let me take my own field (English) as an example. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/article/Average-Faculty-Salaries-by/126586/), salaries for an English instructor (typically a teacher with a PhD but one not on the "tenure track") average $41,733, while an assistant professor (i.e. a PhD new to the tenure track) averages $51,786. Typically, an assistant professor goes up for tenure after five years, and if he or she reaches the next rank (associate professor), the average salary goes up to $62,077, and the final promotion to professor bumps the average to $80,545. These numbers may not be glamorous if you're used to six-figure incomes, but note that the average US household income is only $50K (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0692.pdf).
More troubling than ignorance about salaries, though, is the assumption that the only measure of worth is a high salary. (And BTW, I only make $1400/mo because I'm teaching part-time while I complete my dissertation. But don't let that disrupt the narrative.) By those standards, what do we make of the thousands of FReepers who have to get by on less than $40K? Are they equally worthy of condescension and outright snobbery? This is just class warfare by another name, and plays right into the "conservatives hate the poor" meme. But perhaps that's the point.
Regarding Assumption #2:
This one is of course tied to the arguments about salary, since it is extremely difficult to pay back a $200K loan on a $45K salary. But the argument is still flawed in two important ways. First, the simple fact is that massive loans are not required to get through college, or even graduate school. Personally, I've been through two BA degrees, an MA, and most of a PhD. In that whole time, I borrowed a total of $16000, and covered the rest out of pocket or with grants and scholarships. And since I've been working at least part-time since I started college (with a short gap after graduation), I've been able to pay that loan down to $4500. Would I prefer to be debt-free? Absolutely. But I came into college without much savings, and my family couldn't help much either, so a small loan was necessary. Some of my classmates and colleagues had to take out larger loans for one reason or another, but the idea that EVERYTHING has to come from loans is just not true. The inflated statistics are due more to people who have no business in college, or those who don't know how to manage their money once they do start college.
Secondly, this problem is by no means limited to liberal arts majors! An engineer, computer programmer, architect, veterinarian, or theologian can make the same choices to take out extravagant loans, and can face the same problems of growing debt and a lower than expected income. In fact, in my experience liberal arts majors are actually MORE likely to manage their money well during college, because they don't expect the same "big payoff" after graduation that those in technical fields (or law, apparently) expect. The days of starting at $100K right out of college are gone, even if you do have a fancy tech degree from a high-ranked school.
In summary, the problem comes down to personal responsibility, not academic field or expected income level. I work hard for my money, and I get to do what I love. If certain "conservatives" can't accept that motivation, that's not my problem!
I appreciate my liberal arts education because at the end of it I was qualified to go to law school. I really wasn't qualified to do anything else and I had started a business which was paying me double what I made my first year as an attorney and that business I taught myself by reading books and then telling people that I knew how to do what I had taught myself. I can thank my reading teachers for that, but I didn't learn to read in college.
When I was taking liberal arts classes, the principle reason I was in college and the principle reason why I was taking Liberal Arts classes was because I already knew all that stuff from High School and I needed to stay in college and get good grades because all my friends who hadn't gone to on to college were being shot at by Viet Cong and NVA regulars on the other side of the planet. After they stopped the draft, I stopped going to class. :-)
My son went to college and got an engineering degree. I think he borrowed about $30,000 over 5 years to get that degree from a State University. Right now he is shopping for a house that is literally worth double what mine is worth.
My liberal arts degree and $5 would have bought me a cup of coffee at Starbucks. The only value it had was that I needed it to get into law school. I honestly didn't learn anything in college that I could not have learned on my own. I learned a few things in law school, but the most important thing I learned in Law School was how to take the Bar Examination and I needed a law degree to accomplish that feat.
Am I supposed to be impressed that you already know everything about everything?
Briefly, though, we're dealing with generational issues here. Those currently in school by and large suffer from a sense of entitlement, which has contributed to an overreliance on student loans to fund their education.
This sense of entitlement will eventually lead to demands for forgiving student loan debt if the current cast of characters remain in DC, and that includes RINOs.
I'm having a hard time seeing student loans as this massive burden destroying lives. My student loans get sold every 6 months, half the time I'm not paying the right company. Yeah if you ignore it too much they'll start to go after you, but if you at least make a visible effort between that and the constant sale of your loans it's at best a nuisance.
When I got out of high school I had already learned enough to make getting a liberal arts degree an easy chore. I had already taken courses in English, Literature, Music, Art, Art History, Biology, Physics, American History, World History, Political Science, Chemistry, Algebra, Trigonometry, Geography, Speech, Spanish, German, Philosophy and a full year of Shakespeare (That was a fun class).
All I did when I went to college was to take the same classes that I took in High School. I think in college I added a few electives, like bowling and photography to round out my educational resume. The only classes that I took in College that I didn't take in High School were geology, economics, sociology and psychology.
Geology was easier and more fun than bowling (basically we all went to the desert on the weekend with the professor to look at rocks and drink beer) and all I needed to do to pass Sociology and psychology was to memorize a bunch of terms and regurgitate them when it came time to take a test.
Economics was the most difficult class I had because the teacher had no clue and as a result he was unable to clue me in. I think they were teaching Keynesian economics which makes no sense to anyone with a brain.
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