Ed Schultz Discusses Student Protests of Rising Tuition Costs

[Joanne98]

Run time: 03:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BWl4Ar7Eiw   Posted on YouTube: March 05, 2010 By YouTube Member: firedoglake Views on YouTube: 103   Posted on DU: March 06, 2010 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 1006

 

The student protesters need to go after the Senate Republicans.

Getting rid of Sallie Mae for direct student lending from the federal government would lower costs.

BUT the banksters have hired the Republicans to BLOCK THE BILL IN THE SENATE!

There is also a bill STUCK IN THE SENATE that has 1 billion dollars for college GRANTS!

This is also being BLOCKED by the Republicans in the Senate!

President Obama wants to help ease the pain of the college students but the....

REPUBLICANS ARE IN THE WAY!

Keep protesting and give the conservatives HELL!

[ro1942]

1. Time to take a good look at this American dream

time to think a little smaller and give the Planet a well needed rest.There ia more to be got out of Chekhov, Melville and Balzac than a 5 thousand sg. ft. house.

[Chisox08]

2. What's the point of the Senate?

It seems like that is the place where good bills go to die. It also goes to show that the Repukes don't give a shit about us. I'm facing a debt that I can not afford to pay because of my pursuit of Higher Education, on top of that my tuition has jumped another 20% . It like I'm being punished for trying to do the right thing.

[smoogatz]

3. They need to get pissed off at the majorities in their statehouses,

regardless of party, that have participated in systematically de-funding public higher ed for the last generation. You want the answer for rising tuition costs, just take a look at declining state support for public universities. Here in Wisconsin, the UW-system now gets less than 25% of its funding from the state: the rest comes from tuition and private sector sources. Compare that to around 45% state support as recently as 1979. Then factor in the enormous explosion in Wisconsin of expenditures on prisons, which mirrors the growth in prison populations here--which more than doubled during the 1990s, and which are still inflating like Karl Rove's George W Bush blow-up doll. What you get (and the same is also true in California and many other states) is the starkly disturbing fact that the state now spends more on prisons than it spends on higher ed. The difference? The prison industry has better lobbyists. That and the fact that our (until very recently) long-standing Republican legislative majority has the usual right-wing fetish for imprisoning as many poor people and minorities as it possibly can.

[activa8tr]

4. If I remember correctly, California used to offer free college tuition

to lifelong California residents.

Am I mistaken?

Free college, a great state it was in the 60's

[humbled_opinion]

5. Oh no not another one

Think of what you are saying Free, what is that?

[smoogatz]

7. You're not mistaken.

The Cal system was the envy of the nation, and not just because they had the best looking coeds on the planet. But then a funny thing happened: California voters decided the most important thing in the world was not paying taxes. You can't run a first rate (or even third rate) state university system forever on less and less money every year. It's the wingnut wet-dream, part 37B: eliminate the distinction between public and private higher ed; college only for the rich; maintain a large pool of uneducated and obedient workers in order to suppress wages. As Carlin said, what they don't want are too many people around who can think critically.

[icee]

10. It wasn't just for lifelong residents. I came to California in 1966 and

went through their system for next to nothing. In retrospect, the education I received was not great (I prolly should have gone to UCLA) but it sure beat a blank.

[rhett o rick]

6. It was the students that woke America up to the disaster of Vietnam. It is up to them to wake

America up to the slide into fascism.

[AzNick]

8. I have thought about this as well...

[greiner3]

9. "Getting rid of Sallie Mae for direct student lending from the federal government would lower costs.

I'd not heard of this before. You might want to check your figures for Sallie Mae. If there were no Federal funds for student loans then the private lenders would go crazy. They prey upon the students that can't get federal funds not at an interest rate much higher than what the feds charge. Get rid of Sallie Mae, maybe for the ones with a lot of stock options in the banking industry.

Just saying.