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2009-11-19 Economy

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-19 12:53|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 "Let them eat their books!" Marie Antoinettte

Posted by borgboy 2009-11-19 13:13|| 2009-11-19 13:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Back in the 60's, student demonstrators would have taken the UCLA president hostage in his own office. What wimps.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-11-19 14:12|| 2009-11-19 14:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Back in the 60's, student demonstrators would have taken the UCLA president hostage in his own office. What wimps.

Wait for it. This is just getting started. Universities around the country have bloated administrations, overpaid faculty and debt incurred for new facilities. Revenues are propped up by convincing a generation of students to load up on debt.

Like the rest of California's public institutions, the UC system is amongst the most bloated in the nation.

Posted by DoDo 2009-11-19 14:56|| 2009-11-19 14:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I just hope that there's some good video of that from multiple sources. Not sure why the kid got tased, seems like someone got a bit overexcited on the blue side.

But yeah....gotta have that hike so they don't cut things like diversity awareness, human rights centers, social justice workshops, etc.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-19 15:14|| 2009-11-19 15:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Universities around the country have bloated administrations, overpaid faculty ...

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Posted by Steve White 2009-11-19 15:57|| 2009-11-19 15:57|| Front Page Top

#6 You saw the list of colleges that had total yearly costs charged exceeding $50,000.

Posted by KBK 2009-11-19 16:17|| 2009-11-19 16:17|| Front Page Top

#7 And these 'well educated' individual suckers of the taxpayer's tit are different from those who lined up in Detroit for 'free money', how?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-19 16:29|| 2009-11-19 16:29|| Front Page Top

#8 How much is the tuition for an illegal Alien? My bet is that is much less than a non-resident.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-19 17:58|| 2009-11-19 17:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Crazy - when my son went out of state to UCLA....
Illegal Aliens were the cheapest (FREE)

Posted by 3dc 2009-11-19 18:28|| 2009-11-19 18:28|| Front Page Top

#10 If I remember right non-Illegal foreign was cheaper than out of state. It really upset me.

Posted by 3dc 2009-11-19 18:31|| 2009-11-19 18:31|| Front Page Top

#11 I was listening to John and Ken on KFI on the ride home. The potential for tear gas, beanbags, and headcracking is there. Somebody just needs to ~~throw a brick~~ light the fuse

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-11-19 18:35|| 2009-11-19 18:35|| Front Page Top

#12 "We are bailing out the banks, we are bailing out Wall Street. Where is the bailout for public education?" asked UCLA graduate student Sonja Diaz.
She does have a point.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2009-11-19 18:48|| 2009-11-19 18:48|| Front Page Top

#13 I loved this story. The '60's radicals that took over the education industry are beginning to reap the whirlwind they've sown over these many years. The university as an institution has become so bloated and unresponsive to market demands, so ridiculously unsustainable, and we are witnessing the first cracks in the foundation of this tenuous structure. Academics, meet the laws of economics.

Posted by mjhlaw">mjhlaw 2009-11-19 19:09|| 2009-11-19 19:09|| Front Page Top

#14 If they think the students are agitated now, just wait until they graduate and find that there are no jobs for people with degrees in (fill in whatever bulls**t diversity subject you want) studies that don't involve the phrase "You want fries with that?"

Posted by rwv 2009-11-19 19:27|| 2009-11-19 19:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Personally, right now I'd be happy to flip burgers full-time just so I could get insurance again, but illegals have the "fries with that" market locked up tight.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-11-19 21:03|| 2009-11-19 21:03|| Front Page Top

#16 that's "papas fritas" to you, gringo

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-11-19 21:20|| 2009-11-19 21:20|| Front Page Top

#17 Liberals hiking up tuition costs while at the same time killing jobs out in the market? Vicious system...

Posted by Keith G 2009-11-19 23:12|| 2009-11-19 23:12|| Front Page Top

#18 We are bailing out the banks, we are bailing out Wall Street. Where is the bailout for public education?" asked UCLA graduate student Sonja Diaz.

She does have a point.

The reason there's no money for public education is because it all went to those other things. In the real world when you choose for one thing, you choose against all the other possibilities, Ms Diaz. A useful little concept clearly never taught in your subsidized public schools.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-19 23:26|| 2009-11-19 23:26|| Front Page Top

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