Comments on: Cutting education spending will make economy far worse. Fast.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:56:34 +0000

The increasing costs of education have been going to universities’ capital projects. In their efforts to recruit students, they build palacial residence halls with suites and recreation areas–to say nothing of huge sports complexes. Education has gotten more expensive, and full-time faculty have been replaced by part time, contract faculty who are paid by the course, often with no benefits. As much as I would like to see more money go to education, the money would need to go to teaching the students and making education more affordable.

By: Ryan_Dellevoet

Ryan_Dellevoet — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:45:49 +0000

i couldnt agree more cutting education would make the ecodemy worse and even i know that and im 12.

By: Norma

Norma — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:44:57 +0000

I am also a supporter of education, worked in academe all my life. However, the current protests aren’t about cuts, they are one more way to move leftward and to cause division. Many educated people are unemployed or underemployed. Obama is not doing the right things to restore the economy, so until the far left, which is deeply entrenched in academe, think tanks and non-profits, gets it that he’s driving us over the cliff, there may be more pain.

By: Hesh

Hesh — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:50:19 +0000

I like that snappy and fitting old sayings like “Feed a man a fish, . . . teach a man to fish.”

Conservatives use it to make a point. They simply use the saying to express their belief that giving people something is bad but teaching them to make a living is even better..

The last time our country had a truly effective program for bringing educational opportunity to a large number of Americans was the post WWII GI Bill. The scholarships provided to a huge number of veterans enabled many to get an education they could never otherwise have afforded and reach income levels they could never otherwise have reached, making them more productive members of our society in every respect.

I’m sorry to say that during the previous Congress, in ’06- ’08, Democrats like Reid and Pelosi opposed expansion of such educational benefits for veterans that Republicans like John McCain proposed – they claimed it was unaffordable.
Mr Obama supported spending almost a trillion on the bank bailout and another trillion on a phony stimulus, but opposed higher education spending for GI’s. Sad but true.
I guess Mr Obama just wanted to go “Tom Sawyer” on them… So much for homo-liberalis- compassioninado..