Posted on 05/26/2025 12:57:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Harvard had an estimated $53.2 billon endowment as of fiscal year 2024.
Why could't they have used that to fund your "education and research?"
Lower the federal income tax (as a step towards weaning USA off it). But it would be better for America to flush the money down the toilet than to keep giving it to Harvard.
1. they didn’t have that much when I went to Harvard. And my NSF Graduate Fellowship was an honor, without which I may not got intoHarvard grad school!
2. That money is allocated to other things, and also must be used for asset growth, just like your investment or retirement fund!
B) How do you prevent the money from being misused by the trade schools?
Don’t allow the trade schools to hire the fired Harvard employees.
So Harvard is a hedge fund with classrooms attached.
Got it.
Hell yeah! Electrician work ain’t goin’ away... you can count on that.
....reducing the population of potential university students to “trade school” status only helps communist China become the world research leader!
Baloney!
Harvard is a research and education institution with an investment fund to maintain its existence and independence!
So you are morally and intellectually superior because you went to Harvard.
Got it.
good idea but beware corruption fallows money and my experience is the trade schools out there are just as liable to misuse the money...
There’s PLENTY for Trade Schools to research, if the money is earmarked for that purpose - such as alternative wire nut designs.
(don’t worry if you don’t know what a wire nut is, that’s Trump point...not enough people do know)
Taking money from Harvard? Is this a tax? No, there is no taking. Grants to Harvard do not belong to Harvard. Our money does not belong to Harvard.
No, I want the USA to maintain its superior status rather than conceding it to China! I’m just a former academic with a real, but rather modest, record of scientific achievement.
With China’s communism, totalitarian repression and anti-Christianity, it has a tough hill to climb to reach any intellectually superiority. However, with what Trump is now doing, he risks degrading America’s moral and intellectual standing!
People on this forum need to wake up-—and wake up really fast! Its too bad that the Democrats provide no good alternative to the MAGA Republicans, so we’re all kind of stuck right now.
Sounds like Harvard is just a glorified welfare queen.
Conquering cancer and Alzheimer’s is NOT “welfare”!
I only hope that they beat Alzheimer’s before I get it! And I also hope that someone can apply my patents to conquering some types of solid tumors!
Everybody wake up!
It’s quite possible that the reason we have so much much more cancer and Alzheimer’s than we used to is BECAUSE of the “research” done at places like Harvard.
We DON’T have more cancer and Alzheimer’s than we used to!
And there are new effective treatments for certain cancers that we didn’t have a few years ago!
https://www.cancerresearch.org/stories/patients/emily-whitehead
It’s those of us who want to see effective treatments for resistant solid tumors who are up against a tough problem.
The problem is we haven’t thrown enough taxpayer money at it yet.
Saving Research, Saving Lives: Fighting for the Future of Cancer Science Amid NIH Disruptions
https://www.cancerresearch.org/blog/march-2025/nih-disruptions
Taken? Was it their hard earned money?
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