I’d ask them how it feels to be victims of big education. The evil Big Ed types have conned them into thinking that getting a doctorate in womens studies will do something other than get them hopelessly in debt while the Universities continue to make millions and always want more.
How much is a textbook today? $90? $120? $145? What’s the “buyback” price at Barnes & Noble’s monopolized student bookstore racket? $15?
How often do courses “upgrade” to the new edition to prevent students from reselling perfectly good used (overpriced) texts?
It’s an organized interstate racket. RICO laws should apply. Seize the ill gotten gains.
Did you notice how, in this period of high unemployment, many new on-line “Universities” advertise their wares, and how they almost guarantee success in one’s job search after graduation?
If they’re so all fired up about the price of higher Ed. ask them WHY their own house needs a cleaning. Their people are in charge in Ca. and we all know what a terrific job Ca. has done with Everything they’ve touched.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UC-regents-powerhouse-chief-Richard-Blum-3287474.php
Sen. Feinstein’s husband.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/14/business/la-fi-hiltzik-column-20100714
When my neice was graduating from high school, I asked her what she was going to study in college. She said that she wanted to study music history, so I asked her what kind of job do you need that degree for?
She answered back with that kind of superiority that only leftists and teenagers (but I’m being redundant, aren’t I?) can have and asked me “When do you become so corrupted that everything becomes about money?”
I answered back, “The first time you have to pay all your own bills and there isn’t enough money left to eat.”