Posted on 04/08/2010 6:26:43 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
For years I have been telling congressional staffers that they have it within their power to bring balance to institutions of higher learning. All they have to do is cut federal spending on education.
Yet and still, as a great man said, "There are simple answers, just not easy ones." Don't scratch your heads over the source of that quote: It was Ronald Reagan.
Now, from inside the academy, comes affirmation. "We have reached the point where for many institutions of higher education, the amount of revenue that they derive from either of their two traditional source-tuition and either state funds (public institutions) or endowments (private institutions)-is eclipsed by the funds secured from the feds through government grants and research contracts," Ron Lipsman writes in The American Thinker. "Much of this has been accomplished without any special enabling legislation. It takes place within the budgets of various federal departments and agencies-e.g., Defense, Commerce, Interior, NASA, NSF, and others."
"But with or without specific legislation, like all the massive intrusions by the federal government into areas of our society and economy, it has been carried out lawfully, with the public's support." Lipsman is a math professor at the University of Maryland at College Park.
"But here is one that I am familiar with from my own university that I have never seen discussed," Lipsman writes of the unintended consequences of such enabling. "The selection of campus capital projects and facilities maintenance programs is determined to a surprising extent by the university's perception of their likelihood of attracting federal matching monies."
"It is primarily only sexy new buildings and research labs that can do so."
"The basic infrastructure is left to decay," Lipsman claims. "It has been estimated that the deferred maintenance costs at my institution are nearing one billion dollars."
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
I am searching the Constitution for the part where it gives the feds the power to control who gets into college, need help, ‘cause I can’t seem to find it.
It’s time to stop this out of control madness.
What’s this thing you call “Constitution”? I never learned about it....is it when you can’t poop?
The Founders deliberately kept education out of the hands of the federal government. And all were believers in education.
It was left to the local communities.
“What’s this thing you call “Constitution”? I never learned about it....is it when you can’t poop?”
Heh, you shouldn’t be quoting the Obamaloon-O-dent without his permission.
You are in fact, quite right — the U.S. Constitution grants no authority over education to the federal government. Education is not even mentioned in the Constitution of the United States, and for good reason. You can argue, the Founders wanted most aspects of life managed by those who were closest to them, either by state or local government or by families, businesses, and other elements of civil society. Certainly, they saw no role for the federal government in education.
And so why no Constitutional challenge to this clearly un-Constitutional law? That was the point I was trying to make, in my not so straightforward way.
Education, like Health Care, is covered in the Tenth Amendment.
We have a lot of non-constitutional stuff going around.
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