The photo with the headline is bit misleading, I’ll admit. This little think piece started as a criticism of protests that leave giant piles of garbage. (The hypocrisy of Earth Day events and the garbage left behind are probably the height of that craziness) Nevertheless, someone has to clean all the trash left behind by pro-Hamas protestors. It bothers me. On every level.
Symbolically, it represents a group of people who swoop in, screw everything up and hardworking people have to fix it. Just a cavalier wrecking of something that was once good. And it still would be good if dipshits didn’t wreck it. So, there’s that. Next up? The actual cost of the cleanup. Some person has to do that. They will get paid. The University will say they paid, but how much of that is our money? Way more than you think. We, the US taxpayers are helping to fund these universities. I don’t like that, and we should stop. Like yesterday.
In 2018, federal money made up 14% of all college revenue. About 3.6% of total federal spending went towards higher education investments, according to the US government’s Datalab. Datalab operates under the Department of Treasury and is a public source for federal spending data.
Colleges and universities received $1.068 trillion in revenue from federal and non-federal funding sources in 2018.
That’s fucking bonkers. It’s insane. And now we’re supposed to forgive student loans? WTF? It’s literally our money. If individuals wanna give money to colleges? Go for it. I want to do something different with mine. Something that doesn’t involve abortions or NPR or convincing college students that up is down and wrong is right.
All of these colleges should be on their own financially. If they churn out idiots? So be it. People will quicky learn not to send new student there. It’ll happen fast too. The crap schools will be nothing but a memory. But we can only separate the good schools from the crap ones if we stop paying for it. All of it.
