Now....since higher learning institution are assured forced taxpayer support, they don't have to be competitive with other schools and they can charge those outrageous tuitions without ever lowering them. Why should they? Tuition to them is now assured by Obama, one way or another.
I know a lot of academics. They live like kings with housing, sabbaticals to traipse around the world on grants, sabbaticals to write books (a relative of mine included, a marxist), getting assistants to teach in the classrooms as substitutes for them half the time, benefits and perks out the kazoo.....and so forth.
What goes on in these unchecked institutions vis a vis government is both corrupt and scary....and there's BIG money involved in this industry. At the same time hardly anyone in the lumpen proletariet knows or cares about the administrative/financial goings-on in Big Education.
When Obama directs tax subsidies to students (which benefits the schools at the same time) EVERYONE who works inside the sheltered, ivy-covered walls of academia is happy as elite oysters comfortably nestled around cultured pearls.
Leni
Well said. This will be nothing more than an ongoing guaranteed government dole for students and academia.