Big agenda, little cash for college kids
3/3/2008 - 1:24pm
The college students of Colorado have spoken. They want money. Student leaders are on the Hill today lobbying for a proposed 8 percent boost in higher ed funding, for lowering textbook prices and for nixing the cap on what lawmakers are allowed to spend each year.
“The lack of state funding is bankrupting our future,” Associated Students of Colorado Chairman Blake Gibson said at a rally on the Capitol steps.
He railed against double digit tuition hikes, books that make up 20 percent of the cost of college and a lack of long term solutions to a perennial problem.
It’s not the first time the college set has taken matters into their own hands, according to Sen. Gail Schwartz.
“How many years to we need to have the students of Colorado come up to the Capitol and demand funding that they’re entitled to?” asked Schwartz, a Snowmass Democrat.
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"Entitlements" and WELFARE are one in the same
“How many years to we need to have the students of Colorado come up to the Capitol and demand funding that they’re entitled to?” asked Schwartz, a Snowmass Democrat.,
Excuse me? How are any college students ENTITLED to college funding? When did these college students (and Snowmass democrats) get the power to turn me into a SLAVE working for their benefit?
If some men are entitled by right to the products
of the work of others, it means that those others are
deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.
Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates
the violation of the rights of another, is not
and cannot be a right.
- Ayn Rand 1905-1982 -
I am sick and tired of all the lazy beggers in this country, you want a college education, try earning it.