AS LONG AS OBAMA BROUGHT UP THE COST OF COLLEGE ...

Ann Coulter ^ | 1-14-2015 | Ann Coulter

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AS LONG AS OBAMA BROUGHT UP THE COST OF COLLEGE

January 14, 2015

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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[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Thanks for posting, I was just going to. Great article about the big College swindle. A friend of mine is pay for THREE kids right now and he said he can’t do anymore, it’s absolutely insane the cost.

[onona]

Coincidentally, that's about all most college degrees are good for these days.

What a poltroon. She's her own worst enemy.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

She’s right, unless it’s a high skilled career you’re wasting your money. I know so many young adults that are unemployed with degrees it’s insane.

[Iron Munro]

Great article about the big College swindle. A friend of mine is pay for THREE kids right now and he said he can’t do anymore, it’s absolutely insane the cost.

We must understand that it costs a lot to keep those tenured professors with their six figure salaries hanging around doing nothing 99% of the time.

[smoothsailing]

It’s shameful what so many once good schools have become.

Front groups for Marxist cultivation and indoctrination.

And the cost is a national scandal, a borderline criminal enterprise.

[Secret Agent Man]

free is marxist for other people’s stuff.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah the idea of college being for all is a disastrous fantasy that is leaving us with a nation full of people who can’t or won’t get their hands dirty doing the actual building and making.

College should be for the very best students to learn the cutting edge technologies and sciences. Instead those students have to swim upstream against an endless flow of students who should be in trade schools and apprenticeship programs.

[cripplecreek]

It’s shameful what so many once good schools have become.

Yup. The university of Michigan is still a grade A school but its hard to spot its worth through the tangle of liberal indoctrination.

[zaxtres]

The low-information voters don’t see money coming from the people, they see money coming from the state. So in their minds, anything from the state is free to them. Well it is if you don’t pay taxes. Maybe not free to you or me, but to those who don’t pay taxes it is.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Not just 6 figure but 7.....There’s a lot who are millionaires. These are the highest paid........

http://www.thebestschools.org/blog/2013/11/25/10-highest-paid-college-professors-u-s/

This is the College Presidents.....

Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) — $7,143,312
John L. Lahey (Quinnipiac University) — $3,759,076
Lee C. Bollinger (Columbia University) — $3,389,917
Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania) — $2,473,952
Charles R. Middleton (Roosevelt University) — $1,762,956
Susan Hockfield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) — $1,679,097
David W. Leebron (Rice University) — $1,522,502
John E. Sexton (New York University) — $1,404,484
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Rockefeller University) — $1,381,341
Richard C. Levin (Yale University) — $1,369,856

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[Iron Munro]

Not just 6 figure but 7.....There’s a lot who are millionaires. These are the highest paid........

Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

ANNUAL SLARY - $7,143,312

It's terrible how the white man is holding the black race down, isn't it?

[workerbee]

If this “free” community college thing goes thru, I want my reparations! I worked full-time while attending community college, as well as the next couple of years at a university to complete my bachelors.

GIBSME MY MUNAY!!!!

[smoothsailing]

Silly you, days gone takes you munay so day cans gibs it to da pipples fo free! You ain’t gittin nuttin!

B^(

[CPT Clay]

Good Article

[Bronzy]

With one scholarship and family funds we paid for two to graduate from the Butler University school of Pharmacy. They complained that the pharmacy classes were the only classes assigned an eight o'clock Friday class. The girls did not have much party or protest time.

[Baynative]

Is the idea of working your way through college completely gone these days?

I did it, my son did it.

I guess I just don't understand the entitlement generation.

[Junk Silver]

Well I want a PONY!

When is Obama going to come out with his free pony program? The USA is the only industrialized nation not to provide free ponies to all citizens. Europeans think we’re savages, forcing our citizens to pay exorbitant prices for ponies or even to do without.

I’m serious Mr. President. I WANT MY PONY! NOW!!!

[smoothsailing]

It’s not completely gone, but it’s certainly not as common place as it was when I was doing it back in the late 60’s.