‘DIY U’ and the future of public education
30th May 2010
Listen to the Crust talk to itself.
Follow the chain of logic here: State governments committed themselves to paying for everybody to go to college because of some vague feeling that it would be an ‘investment’. (Considering how much the degeneration of modern culture is caused by these college-educated people, I find this assumption ludicrous on its face, but let’s accept it for the sake of argument.)
As the population grew and more and more people took advantage of this freebie (Extend your adolescence for 4/6/8 years at taxpayer expense! Make more money when you get out than your parents ever dreamed of!), they discovered that, no, they couldn’t afford such an open-ended project.
When you can’t afford something, you either have to find more money or cut back spending. You can’t just wish yourself more money (unlike the Federal government).
The people riding the gravy train, of course, object to being expected to pay for their own improvement. (Mom! Dad! I need more money!) So this is all a plot by some unnamed set of villains to screw the poor. Women and minorities hardest hit, etc., etc.
I’m working on a concept here: How about the people who benefit from something are obliged to pay for it? And if they can’t pay for it, they don’t get it?