Posted on 05/05/2024 5:50:23 AM PDT by karpov
Mohamed Abdou is a pro-Hamas “anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization” at Columbia University.
Now, I don’t mean to pick on Abdou; it’s just that he happens to teach virtually every trendy pseudo-intellectual identitarian twaddle concocted by modern man.
Ultimately, we make Abdou’s job possible.
Nearly every student loan taken in the United States is either given by the government or fully guaranteed by taxpayers.
This sounds wonderful in the abstract, since it allows every student a chance at higher education.
The reality, however, is that we have incentivized universities to create hordes of debt-ridden, credentialed nitwits.
I assure you no bank in the world would ever lend any young person tens of thousands of dollars — much less hundreds of thousands — to pursue studies in either indigenous, black, critical race, Islamic, gender, sexuality, abolition or decolonization studies if those loans were not backed by the federal government.
The state-guarantee policy has created a massive moral hazard that allows schools not only to ignore the real-world needs of their students but to charge astronomical tuition rates.
Many, if not most, students still pursue degrees in fields that have promise.
They’ll get loans.
But if Ivy League schools believe that those political science and journalism degrees are going to pay off in careers, then they should cosign on the loans instead of taxpayers.
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In fact, we shouldn’t be subsidizing public education at all.
Well, we know that foreign organizations are funding our universities.
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What are universities doing with their billion dollar endowments anyway?
Seperation of School and State is an idea whose time has come.
Taxpayer subsidies and the ease of government student loans and ‘pell grants’ is the reason college is so expensive.
I went to what was considered an elite small college, locally- and when I went there it was $3000 a semester. It is now about $30,000 per year.
The campus has expanded and is now a ‘university’ and you are required to live there, the first year.
BTTT
The only jobs for such studies are in government, and they are low paying staff jobs. Usually just above minimum wage. Not a well paying career.
Meet the professors
Their capitulation to the do estimate terrorists is just the beginning. The terror coddlers will demand more and more, and when denied will attack viciously.
Our forefathers counted the cost, then went to war knowingmthat they could, and probsbly would, lose their lives, in order to secure a free and prosperous nation for us all, and here we have college administrators, who have all the power n3cessary to kick those domestic terrorists to the curb, buckle and crumple at the first sign of trouble! Like the cowards that they are, they soiled their undies and gave the domestic terrorists newrly everything they demanded, then they stand there and tell us that they “refused to give in to 2 demands” as though that somehow means that they stood up to the terrorists. Their cowardly act forever sets up future demands and enables hamas and their supporters to blackmail the universities at will.
The colleges that caved in had one chance to stop the friggin nonsense in its tracks, and they FAILED MISERABLY! And now they are stuck, becoming victims of terror instead of victors over terrorists!
I wish there would be a mass exodus from the schools, as well as a mass exodus of people who donate to those feckless Anti-American, pro terror campuses! And I also,wish that federal fu ding to such cowardly institutes would be shut off for having betrayed the nation and given in to the demands of terror-coddlers.
I can’t imagine any employer - except the government and schools - wanting an employee that has majored in black/indigenous/climate change/feminist theory or any other worthless field of study in their place of business. The slightest micro-agression and the business will be sued.
Now, the Biden admin is paying off these loans.
US Taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing most of what our current loser government does.
I’d accept a one-time bailout of all the student loans if it included a Constitutional amendment clarifying that nothing in the Constitution allows for FedGov to do anything related to education with two exceptions:
- Military: GI Bill / SLRP / TA
- Fed employees: mandatory training / certifications required for their job
No guaranteeing or issuing student loans, no DoE, no no child left behind, no Pell, no Essa, no fafsa, no title ix, no esea, no goals 2000, no common core, no nothing.
Hillsdale College -- they have their own group of lenders lined up who fund their students needing loans at rates generally between the federal rates for one simple reason-- their graduates generally get good jobs and pay back the loans with a default rate of damn near zero.
Bank of North Dakota-- provides funding for students needing loans within the state. Loan limits are tied to marketability of the degree and progress toward graduation. Again, their graduates generally get good jobs and pay back the loans with a default rate of damn near zero. Those that don't have a very limited loan liability either because it is an unmarketable degree or they aren't making sufficient progress toward graduation. So the loan exposure is limited. It is a default of generally $5,000 or less.
Two successful models, one college based and one state based. Fedzilla can get out of the loan business completely!
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