Posted on 03/05/2012 4:10:33 PM PST by SmithL
Several thousand protesters descended on the state Capitol Monday to protest the rising cost of higher education and call on lawmakers to increase funding for California's public colleges and universities.
Speakers at a rally on the west steps of the Capitol blasted the budget cuts to higher education and the cost of tuition and fees at campuses throughout the state, framing access to a degree as a right that should be extended to students of all socioeconomic standings.
"Regardless of our backgrounds, we all have been wounded by these cuts," said Sydney Fang, a student senator at UC Berkeley. "Today we stand in solidarity as students, as workers and as community members because we have had enough. We have had enough. UC regents have not heard our voices and it is time for our legislators to stand with us."
Top Democratic leaders from both houses, who negotiated and voted for the cuts in recent years, spoke at the rally, which was organized by Student Senate for California Community Colleges, California State Student Association and the University of California Student Association. A group called REFUND California that supports funding schools and universities with a proposed income tax hike on Californians making more than $1 million dollars a year was also present at the rally and march and planned to "Occupy" the Capitol later in the afternoon.
Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez thanked attendees for coming to the Capitol to send legislators a message that they must "keep the promise of an accessible, affordable higher education for everybody in the state of California at our community colleges, our UCs and our CSUs."
"California is watching you and the people of our state agree with you," the Los Angeles Democrat said.
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Most liberal arts majors should have zero funding from tax payers because why fund stupid majors that have no practical use in the real world and contribute little to the advance of society.
How can a state that is bankrupt even find the money for these folks. They need a reality check ASAP.
The whole “higher education for all” plan is another liberal success.
Govt subsidized loans in huge amounts available to anyone with a pulse allow schools to charge outrageous tuition, and then grossly overpay liberal professors and staff who then contribute to Democrats.
Another variation of the union dues ploy.
Look at the fool holding the sign “tax the rich”. Every solution for these left wing low life scums is to tax the rich and take other people money, no wonder why a majority of democrat voters remain poor or at best low middle class and these morons are being used by the “rich liberals” who want their votes to gain more and more power.
At least they can print signs with pretty colors. The guy with the “Cut the Fat” sign should be arrested for hate speech. He insults fat people.
College students! Free yourselves from the strangling chains of the university professors! They drive luxury cars while you’re walking! Today’s university students are the slaves of the plantation-owner university professors and administrators. Strike against the injustice! Do not enroll at the university this Fall! Demand that tuition be reduced by 75%! You pay for their exorbitant lifestyle! What do they give you? Arrogance? Ridicule? Egoism? Down with the tyranny of overpaid university professors! Free the students!
“Tax the producers” and then of course the producers would flee the state and the state would even have less money coming from tax revenues...
get the unions out and those huge pensions out of this state.
Here’s a hint:
Cut the bloated PRICE, cuz it don’t cost that much to teach the liberal crap they’re peddling!
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hmmm...counted 18 folks in that pic....
Is that sufficient to bring the IQ in that room to 100?
“hmmm...counted 18 folks in that pic....
Is that sufficient to bring the IQ in that room to 100?”
Hell, it’s not even sufficient to bring the IQ in that room to 18.
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