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[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

Near-riots at UCLA Wednesday over a proposed 32% tuition hike:

The only thing is, they're angry at the wrong people and protesting in the wrong place. The comments say it best:

These kids are TOTALLY mislead in attacking the Board of Regents. The REAL cause of this proble is Sacramento’s ineptitude. The Board of Regents is just trying to make sure they still have a school to attend, and because of the $21 Billion problem the State government has caused, this is the only way…

The contradictions of California are ‘coming home to roost’ in the immortal words of Obama’s spiritual mentor.

California has taxed and spent and taxed and spent and regulated the state to fiscal death. Now the rich have fled, manufacturing has fled, companies that need electricity have fled, anyone with assetts has fled.

The remaining tax base can’t support the bloated services the voters have given themselves. These spoiled brats want the belagured taxpayers of California to continue to over subsidize their education, but the money just isn’t there. It’s a zero sum game at this point. If tuition isn’t cut at UC, then welfare will be cut, or section 8 will be cut, or free medical care will be cut.

I've seen the same thing happen in Arizona, another one of the Union's most troubled states. When education spending was threatened and "student fee" hikes were announced at state colleges, people were in an uproar over it. I just wish these kids would learn who was really responsible (*cough*liberals*cough*) so they could take appropriate and meaningful political action.

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[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

They could transfer their heinies somewhere else if they don't want to pay the higher tuition.

HOW DARE THEY!!!

[foodsthatcan.livejournal.com]

But...but...they have a RIGHT to cheap higher education!!!! D:

[guardians-song.livejournal.com]

I'm at UC Berkeley, and looking at the flyers posted around, I don't entirely think the students are organizing this. People are being bused in for the protests, the flyers talk as much about furlough and other UC-employee-related issues as they do about the fee hikes, and the flyers themselves have that inflammatory air that usually belong to the student-recruiting-but-not-student-organization incendiary groups... Yes, the students are the majority of the protesters, I'm sure, but they wouldn't have spontaneously demonstrations (or should that be Spontaneous Demonstrations?).

I just wish these kids would learn who was really responsible (*cough*liberals*cough*) so they could take appropriate and meaningful political action.
If it helps explains things, those protesters were originally supposed to be at Berkeley, and then the Regents moved the meeting, from what I heard. In other words, those attending are probably indoctrinated to the gills or the ones doing the indoctrination, so even if they learned who was responsible, they might be unwilling or unable to understand the implications...

[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

In other words, those attending are probably indoctrinated to the gills or the ones doing the indoctrination, so even if they learned who was responsible, they might be unwilling or unable to understand the implications...

Isn't it funny when the dog bites the hand that feeds it?

The liberals who dominate the colleges here have only themselves to blame for indoctrinating the entitlement mentality that is consuming the country.

[caromiofic.livejournal.com]

I feel for the kids on this rate hike. My local news was saying state tuition would be $10,000 for the year for the first time ever. My tuition at a private uni for '95-'96 was over $13,000, and we had to get loans because my mom made $50,000/year. Some spokesperson on the news was saying the hike would only affect those from high income who can't qualify for the grants/scholarships. Uh, yeah, buddy, try anyone that comes from a home making over $35K, and those kids are probably already on loans, etc. It is so ungodly expensive to live here besides trying to go to school.

Whomever's to blame, no one should *have* to go into major debt just to get higher education.

[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

I agree. The point, though, is that these kids don't even understand WHY their tuition is going up, only that it is, and they can't do anything to correct the problem without first understanding the cause. They're wasting their time AND their money because they're not even being taught properly.

I'm kinda leaning towards the Glenn Beck College of Academic Achievment -- he is self-educated and I think the bias towards people with that extra piece of paper has become overwhelming in this country to the point that intelligent people in the vein of Glenn Beck get passed-over in favor of those who have the college degree that really doesn't say much of anything anymore other than you spent 4-6 years not learning anything useful.