Mike Olsen pretty much get's it right...and if we think it is bad now,wait until Campbell Liberals next budget comes out right after the Owelympics.
Unfortunately,asking Bond and Bell to stand up for their constituents is like asking the pope to stand up for birth control!
Just not going to happen...unless of course Gordon Campbell say's it ok to do so!

Methinks you got it right

$27,000 in debt for 4 years of quality education sounds cheap. Less than the cost of most of the cars in the parking lot that these poor students drive.

I cant wait until I only have 27K in debt. I can't wait for these students to get jobs and pay 27K a year in taxes. I am sure the tune will change

You know, we do have scholarship programs to provide the smartest kids to expand their knowledge. The rest of us who are not that smart, has to pay our own way.

I finished two years of college, and had more money than I went in at, in fact I bought a brand new car on the week I graduated. I finished at the top of the class with a GPA of 3.76. Then again, I was not afraid of working also.

I think too many parents are pushing their kids into post secondary education. These kids coming out of high school should get a couple of years of real life experience, and then go to post secondary. That way they will know what it means to be stuck in a minimum wage job. Thus understand that they were being brainwashed by socialists for twelve years.

You could pay students to go to school and they would complain that it isn't enough. If you take a program that actually has a job at the end of it, you will make that 27K back in extra earnings in the first five to ten years. It is a fair trade.

We get screwed up by thinking we have a right to education. We don't. We have a right to have fair access to education but not free education. For some one to be educated, someone else has to teach. The person who is teaching is using their working hours to provide that service, the same as a mechanic is using his time to fix your car. That time is the teachers production, no one has a right to someone else production. If you can pay the acceptable rate for that production than you can have it, if not, it doesn't belong to you.

That basically sums up my problem with the current direction we are taking as a society. Those who don't contribute feel they have equal rights to the things that those who do contribute, produce. That is a system that can only have one conclusion and it isn't pretty.

27K may be the debt that remains after graduation, but what is the total cost of the education? Afterall, one would assume that the total cost is not still owing after grad. I would hope that most students work during the summer to at least pay for some of it as they go, etc.

All of that being said, yeah, I have no issue with people having to partially invest in themselves in the form of an education. 27K for a degree is likely FAR better than 40K for a new truck or 20-30K pissed away at the bars and casino over a 4 year period. It's all a matter of perspective and planning for one's future. Some people get it and some people don't.

Whether it's university, college or a trade, the money one spends on education will likely give them the best return on investment that they will ever experience.

"Mike Olson issued a call for MLAs Pat Bell and Shirley Bond to stand up for their constituents"

Ahahahahhahaha,bwahahahahah! Good luck, they only standup for themselves and Gordo ahead of that.

Glad too see that there are people with both oars in the water still. Should a young person pay for their post secondary education. Yep, they should, it would have more meaning to them.

Too bad most of the school systems are run by socialists, that don't put emphasis on how the world really works. Not everyone will be a teacher, doctors and lawyers.

I have to admit free education is pretty much a pipe dream!!!

Would I love to be back in those school days again, you bet. Everyday was an adventure!! And there in is the problem with free education. If it were free there would be a bunch of people that would try and stay in education........always taking the "next class" never producing anything to contribute to society.

Should education be affordable? That's probably the better question. Yes, $7K per year to come up with $28K in debt is still pretty reasonable.

They typically estimate that those with education earn something like 20% more than those that don't. That doesn't even measure the doors that begin to open because you become more marketable.

Why do so many people think services should be cheap or even free? Live in the best country in the world not good enough for you? I always remember the movie "The Replacements". In this movie a rich football player that was on strike says "Do you know how much it costs to insure a Ferrari". I think a lot of people in Canada are starting to sound like this guy.

Let's get back to being proud Canadians, not complainers. We have a lot to be thankful for.

When the BC government brings in more in student tuition, then it does in corporate taxes I think tuition is too high. I think we should have loan forgiveness programs for those that have invested in their future and completed their degree where they could get 50% of their tuition costs reimbursed.

The real problem is a lot of people especially women use the school system as a safe haven from the real world where they can live off of student loans as long as they are going to school... often taking 3 classes a semester. A lot of these 'students' have $80,000 dollars plus in student loans with no hope of ever paying it back much less saving for a future retirement in old age. Some have no choice and hope it all works out in the end and often it creates bigger problems later in life and their time in school thus becomes a life sentence.

A problem in Canada is that corporations pay almost no taxes on their profits, and yet get employees that come already trained at no cost to the corporations... so in effect the students are subsidizing the corporations and society at large by paying for their own training and then competing against an immigrant work force from places like Europe where their university education is free (they have no tuition debts so can work for less) and the corporations argue they need the lower costs employees to remain viable.

I got paid for my education and paid well, its called an apprenticeship. I was able to support a family at the same time. Before that I got trades training in the military and had a good time doing it. Hey there are ways without going into dept.