College Students as Pawns

Financial aid for higher education has become an unjustified burden on taxpayers, encouraging unprepared studeIt was surprising to hear the word “surplus” on Capitol Hill on April 7th, having grown accustomed to the usual news about deficits. But the Cato Institute pin-pointed one surplus that is, because of the mismanagement of government funding, harming the system. The surplus is in college graduates. nts to attend schools where they do not acquire necessary skills, and has caused our educational system to become outdated and disproportionately expensive.

Andrew Gillin, of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, prefaced his remarks by pointing out that about 40% of young college graduates are working jobs that do not a require a college degree. To make matters worse, the areas that are growing most rapidly that require advanced degrees, like computer software engineering and mental health counseling, employ relatively few people.

Gillin’s chief argument was that financial aid actually makes college less affordable. Because government subsidization of education has become so widely available, universities know that they can charge higher prices and get away with it. At the same time, more students, often unprepared, are filling expensive universities on the taxpayer’s dollar, when they would not do so if it meant taking out high-interest loans or spending saved money.

Government financial aid is fueling this cycle of rising prices and low outcomes, Gillin said: “the end result being that the government is providing more money…but that increase in money is accomplishing less in terms of making the financial burden on families manageable.”...

Our universities are being overrun with America hating liberals who are teaching all of our children to hate America too. But they even go a step further by also hating God, religion and any outward show of patriotism or love of country. That is what our universities are fostering and what the future holds for our country if these insane liberals are not stopped right now!

As a member of the academic community, I am sad and embarrassed to admit, you are not far off the mark. Fortunately, the trends you cite are much more common, if not universal, in the social “sciences,” liberal arts, various minority studies, homosexual, or as some call it, deviant behavior engagement studies, and other areas often useless in preparing students for the job market. The hard sciences, engineering, medicine and math, require a higher level of thinking and the prevalence of liberalism is much less apparent. I am a radical self-thinker in a sea of liberalism. There are others in the sciences that have not bought the marketing of anti-americanism-—we are alive but struggling.

Several months ago I was invited to my local U to take a tour of the new ivory towers they built with tobacco money and ever-skyrocketing tuition. I was in the new "knowledge center" (library) surveying the vast wasteland of future french fry chefs and said to my escort, "half these people have no business even being here". I was mildly shocked when she agreed with me.

Good Daniel Allen article. It’s heresy to question the “logic” of sending every 18 year old to university. Financial aid for sending perfectly able teens to America-bashing indoctrination centers? Where remedial classes gobble up funds. Where professors ridicule the hard working middle class parents who give their little darlings their gold Mastercard? It’s madness. You send your kids to be taught to hate you, with your money and taxpayers’ money.

Daniel explains clearly why it’s another big government boondoggle, morally and financially un-sustainable.

Read the article, send your kids to a trade school or community college to see if they really WANT to LEARN, and pay for it yourself.

“Our universities are being overrun with America hating liberals who are teaching all of our children to hate America too.”

I DISAGREE! Our ENTIRE EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS BEEN overrun with America-hating COLLECTIVISTS who are teaching our children to hate America.

I used to think this phenomenon was confined to the Ivies, California, Wisconsin, and a few other prestige universities, but it extends throughout the entire educational system.

I agree with this article completely.

However, there is one speaker cited who said that government loans for students should be stopped. There I disagree. A student who is highly intelligent and works hard for good grades, but comes from a middle-class home w/o the price of a college education, should be given a loan. He or she is the one who will pay back the loan, and with those good qualities will not fail the make the repayment.

And, no, I have no children looking for a government loan.

Another thought: My husband had an employee who was intellectually gifted and wanted to go to med school. He lost out to lower scoring WYMEN.

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