As Long as Obama Brought Up the Cost of College...
By Ann Coulter
AnnCoulter.com
I gather from Obama's "free"
community college proposal that his
plan for dealing with the Republican
Congress over the next two years is
to throw out ridiculously expensive
ideas no one has ever heard of
before, and then denounce
Republicans for being naysayers.
Community college is already
incredibly inexpensive. The only
thing that will jack up the price is
making it "free." How about a big
federal program to provide every
American with free toilet paper?
Coincidentally, that's about all
most college degrees are good for
these days.
Obama's moronic proposal has
presented the GOP with a fantastic
opportunity. Since he brought it up,
how about Republicans get to the
bottom of why college is so
expensive?
The cost of a college education has
increased by more than 1,000 percent
only since 1978. Nothing else has
gone up that much -- not health
care, consumer goods or home prices.
The explosion in college tuition
bears no relation to anything
happening in the economy.
Would anyone argue that colleges are
providing a better education today
than in 1978? I promise you: People
coming out of college in the '50s
knew more than any recent Yale
graduate -- unless we're only
counting knowledge of sexual
practices once considered verboten.
They're teaching gender studies,
ethnic studies, moral equivalence
and hatred of America. Did the
Japanese Really Start World War II
or Did We? It's worse than not
reading Shakespeare. They're reading
Shakespeare for homosexual imagery.
As Yale professor Daniel Gelernter
says, colleges are "threatening to
become an elaborate, extremely
expensive practical joke."
The fact that 80 percent of
Weathermen -- the violent '60s
radicals -- are full college
professors tells you all you need to
know about the state of higher
education today.
The cost of college spirals
continuously upward not because the
product has gotten better -- it's
gotten much, much worse -- but
because college loans are backed by
the taxpayer.
The government is chasing its
tail every time it increases student
financial aid. If the government
hiked college loans and subsidies by
$1 million per student, colleges
would promptly raise tuition to:
[current tuition] plus $1 million.
Americans are being bamboozled into
paying any price for a college
degree because they are relentlessly
told that if they don't go to
college, their lives will be hell.
And they're told this not only by
the colleges, but by the government.
The sales pitch is manifestly false.
According to an article by Adam
Davidson in The New York Times
magazine last June,
"(m)ore than half of recent
college graduates are unemployed or
underemployed, meaning they make
substandard wages in jobs that don't
require a college degree."
Evidently, most jobs don't depend on
a degree in women's studies.
More than a third of college
graduates, Davidson says, will never
make enough money to repay their
student loans.
If any other business made such
false claims about a product, there
would be massive congressional
hearings, media denunciations and
prison sentences for the CEOs. A
college degree is the most expensive
purchase most families will ever
make, other than their home.
Right before our eyes, Democrats are
colluding with colleges to create a
market bubble for an increasingly
worthless product, and they're doing
it by making the exact same promise
that banks made about home mortgages
before the housing market crash:
Sure it's a lot, but it's an
investment in your future!
Instead of hauling college
administrators to court, Democrats
are active participants in the
fraud, acting as Big Education's
carnival barkers. It's as if the
government is telling people: "If
you don't smoke, you'll never be
cool."
Why is the left not willing to admit
that education is an industry, just
like Lockheed Martin, Enron or
Philip Morris? Democrats love to
rail about the high costs of
everything else -- pharmaceuticals,
health care, mortgages, missile
systems, contraception and so on.
College is a business, too -- a
cartel that fixes prices, preys on
teenagers and lies to consumers.
But liberals won't make a peep about
the College Industrial Complex
because college professors are
brainwashing students into leftist
politics. Every year, another 10
million graduates emerge, hating
God, their parents, America and
Republicans. For this, parents are
spending $50,000 a year.
The education industry is how
leftists make capitalists pay for
socialism. It was a smart move for
cultural Marxists to capture the
country's education establishment.
GOOD THINKING, CULTURAL MARXISTS!
It's not the fault of the students
that they're getting a crappy
product at inflated prices. They've
been lied to by shady education
peddlers, including the Democratic
Party.
Let's see if the middle class is
more interested in the cost of
college tuition or the Democrats'
endless global warming initiatives.
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