Obama State University

WSJ ^ | Aug 23, 2013 | James Freeman?

[Hoodat]

President Obama recently concluded a five-year campus speaking tour in which he explained to students how his financing programs were making college more affordable. Then on Thursday he kicked off a new campus speaking tour to tell students that college is unaffordable, and that the financing program he has championed faces increasing defaults.

"We've got a crisis in terms of college affordability and student debt," said Mr. Obama, without a trace of irony at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The same man who three years ago forced through a plan to add $1 trillion in student loans to the federal balance sheet over a decade said on Thursday, "Our economy can't afford the trillion dollars in outstanding student loan debt, much of which may not get repaid because students don't have the capacity to pay it."

Naturally, the President blamed somebody else and demanded more authority over higher education.

Mr. Obama specifically blamed colleges and universities for charging too much. "Not enough colleges have been working to figure out how do we control costs, how do we cut back on costs," he said. . .

[Hoodat]

1. Obama causes problem.
2. Obama blames others for problem he caused.
3. Obama offers proposal that will make problem even worse.
4. America gets screwed again.

Fresh off his successes with green energy, Obama will implement this same 'picking winners' strategy throughout our entire higher education system.

[Hoodat]

This is related to the Breitbart piece you posted earlier.

[foundedonpurpose]

The us college system is done, the government is running out of other people’s money!

Lets hear it for a broke dysfunctional government!

[generally]

Excellent, accurate, succinct analysis.

So far he has done this with:
1. College costs
2. Energy
3. Race relations
4. Foreign policy
5. US Economy
6. Privacy rights
7. National security

What else am I missing?

[nathanbedford]

Is sadly all too typical of the Wall Street Journal to concentrate on the dollars and cents aspect of a matter and ignore utterly or at least make only an oblique reference to the fundamental threat which Obama represents to academic freedom.

The object is not to facilitate the financial path students as professed, Obama's purpose is to get control over the minds of students from kindergarten right through postgraduate work. The government will subsidize those institutions who support this new Orwellian world and bankrupt those who do not play along.

Nor can we expect any more voices of opposition to be raised in the faculty lounges. Their on campus speech codes and thug mentality against conservatives demonstrate they have no earnest allegiance to the classic enlightenment notion of free speech and freedom of academic dispute. The problem here is that they will not feel threatened because they long for this sort of totalitarian control, they have sought to impose it for decades, they agree with the substance of what Obama is doing to our society, and they will be happy to fill their rice bowls.

This is a real and substantial threat to the right to think as one chooses but there are very few identifiable powerful institutions lining up to defend today's Galileo.

[maine yankee]

This man has no intention of leaving the white house.