Obama decries rising cost of college education (Cannot "just jack up tuition")

AP ^ | January 27, 2012 | Jim Kuhnhenn and Kimberly Hefling

[maggief]

EXCERPT

‘‘We are putting colleges on notice,’’ Obama said. ‘‘You can’t assume that you'll just jack up tuition every single year. If you can’t stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down.’’

[blueunicorn6]

Read the whole story. Basically he’s saying “Tell me you’re doing better and I’ll give you more government money.”

Democrats - Thieves, Thugs, Thralls and Thickheads

[blueunicorn6]

Old Massah Professor takes a look at this and has another sip of fine bourbon, belches and says, “This is good for the plantation.”

[Neoliberalnot]

I agree. The aid has always been there to match the cost of education. Aid is the dependent variable. It goes up to match the increase in tuition, the independent variable.

[Clock King]

They’re trying to create perpetual students like themselves.