B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for March 13, 2010

Someone sure got that right.

Yikes……….it’s Big Guido!!!!

He’s a big one, all right!

Good Morning, Lonewolf & LuvH8!

No matter what they invest in, it is always lucrative.

Hi Grog & LuvH8

add college tuition

Buy books for an inflated price and get an nth of their real value back…. it does sound like a racket, doesn’t it.

Is that caveman with black hair and beard an Italian mafia?

This is a racket with college professors…..of course their salaries are usually not market value for talent (sometimes they are!)…

I always bought used. Then I could study other students highlighting. If there were three shades of highlighter I figured that was important.

I agree about the college text books, but I thought the reason we don’t hear as much about organized crime is that the all got MBA’s & Wall Street Jobs!

You put your $$ in - They take your $$$ out & buy luxury penthouses & yachts. They paid some lackey to do their dirty work (politics) to deregulate the banking/investment industry. You bailout the failed banks & investment firms with tax $$$$$$. U know the rest of the story… We need an “Eliot Ness” going after the Wall Street’s version of the “Untouchables”.

they are into the politians, investment companies, banks, and white collar scams these days….they still off people who don’t cooperate…..just take a look at some deaths of the people who associated with the “Clintons” back in the day…..truely they were “Untouchable”…..lots of dead people…..no convictions….ummmm

I read recently that college textbooks are going digital. I’m sure they’ll find a way to make money off of those.

signed up for adult learning. If I open the DVD pack in the back, I can’t return my textbook for any refunds. Fortunately, I don’t need it, but I can imagine the number of kids who don’t read the instructions and pop the pack, load the DVD and lose ALL their investment.

I am a college professor and we get absolutely nothing from the textbooks! I don’t like the cost any more than students do and there are some new sources for texts that are a fraction of the cost. And I DO teach the material in the book, as most of my colleagues do!

Don’t sweat it, carlk. I think we’re just seeing the natural distrust of a certain segment of the population for anyone who knows more than they do…