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‘Occupy Graduation’ Urges Students to Protest Tuition Prices as Last Act at University

Occupy Graduation Urges Students to Protest Tuition Prices as Last Act at University

(Photo: Occupy Graduation)

(The Blaze/AP) — Traditionally, college graduation caps bear messages to Mom or shoutouts to professors and friends.  But this year, some students are protesting their looming debt at commencement by using their hats to show the amount in loans they owe.

At the University of Colorado in Boulder on Friday, Daniel Schwartz, who helps organize Occupy events, said some students also sported inflatable ball and chains in addition to the decorated caps. The effort is in part to bring attention to rising student loan debt, which recently surpassed credit card and auto loan debt with some estimates putting the total at $1 trillion.

Supporters —which include Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen, MoveOn.org, and “Rebuild the Dream”— say it’s a way to silently protest the rising costs of education without interrupting the ceremony for others and their families.

Occupy Graduation Urges Students to Protest Tuition Prices as Last Act at University

(Photo: Occupy Graduation)

The movement, dubbed Occupy Graduation, is shipping plastic ball and chains to at least six universities around the country including San Francisco State, Hunter College in New York City, George Washington University and the University of North Carolina. Of the 200 inflatable ball and chains that have been shipped so far, about 50 were sent to Colorado.

One of the videos on their site compares student loans to STD’s (Warning: some strong language):

Cohen —who has offered support to the Occupy movement— said he was approached with the idea to offer inflatable ball and chains to college graduates about a month ago. It came from Adam Nelson, who works for a public relations firm that offered pro-bono public relations services in Occupy Wall Street’s early days and who shared his own struggle with student loans.

Soon after, Cohen’s assistant began looking on the Internet to order shipments of the ball and chain to send out to customers. When they didn’t find enough of them to buy, Cohen’s office began crafting their own.

The kits include black beach balls, inflatable chains and duct tape. A 10-pack sells for $25.

The effectiveness of the silent protest with regard to student loan debt has yet to be seen. Cohen believes “this message and this symbol is really gathering steam in terms of this issue.”

Cohen himself, however, can’t share the same personal struggle with paying back student debt.

“I dropped out of a few colleges,” Cohen said.

Another video on the site is labeled “Debt Sentence” (Warning: Some language):

According to the Occupy Graduation site, the protesters want:

Tuition-Free Public Higher Education
The single, largest step we could take to alleviate future student loan debt would be to guarantee tuition-free education for students enrolled at public colleges and universities. In the case of systems in California and New York that were formerly free, this would be a restoration of the status quo. For others, it would be a restoration of the spirit of the GI Bill, which provided a free college education to tens of millions, and established U.S. higher education as a democratic gold standard worldwide. According to a recent estimate, drawn from Department of Education data, the cost of covering tuition at all the nation’s two- and four-year colleges and universities would be about $70 billion. Put in the perspective of the federal budget, a recent audit found that the Pentagon “wastes” this sum in unaccountable spending every year. Ending the Bush tax cuts ($80 billion annually) would easily cover this cost.

Zero-Interest Student Loans
Student loans are not consumer loans, and they should not be packaged as if they were consumer credit debt. At a time when a university degree is considered to be a prerequisite for employment in the knowledge economy, debt, for most students, is a precondition for entry into the workforce. They cannot work unless they have gone into debt–a condition akin to indenture. This arrangement does not correspond in any meaningful way to a consumer choice. Zero-interest student loans are the only justifiable kind of lending under these circumstances. The current scenario, in which government agencies, banks, and other private lenders set extortionate rates and extract lavish profits is corrupt and abhorrent.

Private Colleges Must Open Their Books
Students at private and for-profit universities and colleges have a fundamental right to know how their tuition dollars are being allocated and spent. These institutions are fiscally dependent on student loan debt, they enjoy a tax-free status, and they are beneficiaries of federal largesse in all sorts of ways. Withholding information about the conduct of their fiscal affairs is a violation of the ethos of shared governance and transparency that liberal institutions like universities should be promoting, and practicing.

Student Debt Written Off In The Spirit of Jubilee
The student loan industry has profited from borrower vulnerability through predatory lending practices such as compounding interest rates, high collection fees, and few consumer protections. Inflating tuition costs have been financed through student debt that will soon exceed 1 trillion dollars. The morality of perpetuating this unjust system by continuing to pay these predatory loans is questionable. In times of fuller employment, the student loan debt system has yielded no end of private suffering and humiliation for at least two generations of debtors. In a time of chronic underemployment–and the worst may be yet to come–the burden is beyond tolerance. Immediate forgiveness in the spirit of a jubilee, where the injustice of an unpayable debt is redeemed through a single, corrective act, is the only just response to this crisis.

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  • possom
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:26am

    If they didn‘t want the debt they shouldn’t have signed the paper! Blame it on the parent‘s for not teaching their kid’s how it work’s. instead of buying participation trophy‘s maybe the parent’s should have put the money away for their collage.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:48am

      Agree.Think this all started when some shyster lawyer dreamed up that Blame the Bartender defense ! The Democrats, to this day, are playing the Blame Game ! Remember Blame Bush ? Now it’s Blame the Tea Party. Blame the Banks. Blame the Man In the Moon. GROW UP, KIDDIES. And that includes you juveniles OCCUPYING the White House ( although I think those determined Far Lefties have an agenda and are just USING the kids to accomplish it ! )

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    • symphonic
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:36pm

      There is much more blame on the SYSTEM in place, the banks, the debt machine, that many parents even don’t have a good idea of how dangerous it is. Don’t you think its time to stick it to the banks and have them man up and take some responsibility for duping people, and for starting that Federal Reserve deceitful system that keeps our country in debt, where THEY want it to be? That Federal Reserve, in my opinion, are a treasonous bunch. They will destroy the country when it finally snaps in debt. They are traitors to the county, in all reality.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:30pm

      They need to protest the schools and the Federal Gov. A part of Obamacare made it illegal for banks to give school loans. Loans can only be given by the Federal Gov now.

      All this BS about student loan interest rates doubling has nothing to do with the banks. The House already passed a Bill keeping rates the same but it’s stuck in the Democratic lead Senate.

      Colleges raise the rates to attend, give themselves big raises and Gov gives you the loan and then doubles the interest rate. Why are these dopes blaming anyone but the schools, the Feds and themselves?

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    • rickc34
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:57pm

      Also if these kids had any brains they would know that they are going to be paying these loans back for the rest of their lives with interest and have crapppy healthcare if Obama has it his way.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 12:10pm

      The Parents who never protest the uber-high college+university prices, and fight for reduction, BEFFORE having to “pay the price” of [mush-scull's] education. Majority of universities have uber-huge [endowments=billions-unspent] which were originnally given to help lessen the cost of education. Proffessors are given huge$$ to study “sex between ping-pong balls” instead of lessening tuition…all for the hidden-agenda of the progressive-communists.

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  • barber2
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:11am

    An American citizen is free to go to get an education or to choose not to. He is not entitled to a free education. Nor to not pay his taxes. Man up, kiddies. It ain’t easy being a grown up.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Actually, the public school system, which is required by the various States is sucking billions of dollars from everyone. Most municipalities are struggling to finance that system now. When are people going to realize that there is no such thing as a free lunch?

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:24pm

      Seems self destructive doesn’t no tuition = no salary for proffessors and teachers.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:33pm

      If they are not entitled to a free education, like you say, then why are we providing a free education to all K-12 kids? With my tax money? Why do I have to pay into that when I don’t have any kids in that? Why are we socializing education for K-12 anyway? Why don’t we continue this socialism right through their college years then? Why the INCONSISTENCY? Conservatives have this question to answer, but they never do. They are pro public school, and put their kids in that, but then they want people to pay for their own college while everybody else is paying for educating their kids in the K-12 machine. SO inconsistent.

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  • barber2
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:57am

    Why don’t the kids just add all of these wishes to their Christmas letter to Santa ? Then grow up. Put on their big man pants. And get a job. Oh, forgot . There’s a Far Left Democrat in the White House ! Never mind about that job bit…..( maybe the kids should add “ elect a grown up Republican president ” to that Santa letter )…..jeez…

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    • RIGHTHOOK
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:37am

      Barber2 – You hit the bullseye on your assessment!
      My 80 year old mother-in-law in Houston, TX remarked while we were having dinner Friday night; “I think the whole world has gone crazy! I feel bad for the kids growing up in this world today and I am sad to say I have to include our country”.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:40pm

      The system is BROKE. You are delusional and a denier of reality. My dad is 30 years older than me. Was a consultant. Billed out at $100/hr., 30 years ago. I bill out at that rate now, so salaries have NOT gone up. But the home my dad bought 30 years ago for 30 grand now sells for 400 grand. Trucks cost twice as much. Gas is 10 times as much. Same with electric bills, etc. etc. etc.

      The system is BROKE. We have a lot of people who rightfully can NOT afford things, and old people need to MAN UP and face the facts and stop calling people lazy and assuming that they are bums that just need to “get a job” That’s a bunch of nonsense that has no place in the very real world we now live in. Its broke. And the trends never reverse. Even now, those trends to not reverse.

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  • HeavyMetalDaze
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:51am

    We have a generation that was told they had to get an education to succeed. It worked for their parents and their grandparents. But now they find after doing what they were told they were supposed to do instead of success they find poverty. Meanwhile Europeans and Canadians have access to inexpensive subsidized educations while we get ripped off because our government serves the ultra rich. Do we really want a less educated/less informed society. We can tell by reading comments on the Blaze what kind of stupid things people believe when they lack learning.

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:33am

      If Europe has inexpensive/subsidized education (while they are broke) and no jobs for the educated, then what is the point? What is the ultimate goal of their students, a job in their government? Besides, Europe is only Europe thanks to over a million American lives. Europe is a boat without an anchor. Any wind can blow it.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:45pm

      There are a lot of old red necks posting on the Blaze, I’ll agree with you. The problem of our system lies in the fact that the banks and insurance companies are ripping us off. We require insurance that costs too much, you will spend the equivalent of buying TWO HOMES in your lifetime with the money you spend buying health insurance. Its a 1000 per month minimum for a family, and that does not include the additional costs incurred when you actually use it and pay deductibles to boot. Banks and their foreclosing on people on hard times is another great injustice. No mercy, just wasted labor of people that paid on homes for years, only to miss a few months and then lose it all. What a sham. What a terrible system that only works for banks and insurance companies. I tire of them. I would not think a revolt would be a bad thing for this country, to cleanse that system up a bit.

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  • llotus
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:47am

    It was there choice……the same choice made by many others before them. The only difference is that these dead beats now seem to have the option of not paying their loans. Like spitting in the face of those that did and are still paying their student loans. Why isnt the IRS the collection agency for these loans? This administration put them over the citizens health care mandate collections……..sikking the a pit bull on its people on a mandate that they didn`t have the luxury of choosing. A mandate that picks and chooses the citizens that will and will not have to pay the IRS. Looks like a very bumpy down hill road for America for now but soon will be only a bad memory. One that will not soon be forgotten. Enough rantings of an old tired woman. I guess its time for a nap. Its only 7:45 a.m. but like life, it all depends on when you went to bed. Lotus.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:48pm

      It is NOT the same system of 30 or 40 years ago. Things are so different now. Inflation has taken over and it wrecks capitalism. The sooner supporters of capitalism realize this the better. It is not sustainable when salaries remain the same for decades, but home prices go up 15 times.

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  • Mgmtboy
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:26am

    Instead of name calling, blame should be placed where it belongs, on the Federal Government. Why is tuition too high? Simply supply and demand!

    When the federal government guarantees student loans and banks do not have to worry about being selective on making loans.

    This is how (on the Dave Ramsey show) a person borrowed around $130,000 for a doctorate in German Oompah Music. The current jobs pay about $30,000 – 40,000 for a music teacher. It makes it extremely hard to repay this loan over their lifetime. How was this allowed to happen? Government guarantees to the banks. This is a loan they should have never made, but since the government guarantees it, the bank did.

    Since the banks can loan as much as they want, to anyone they want, the demand for college is higher than it should be, therefore, tuition prices rise as more people attend. If the federal government did not guarantee student loans, banks would have to look at the student and the occupation to see how much they make and how long it would take a person to repay them. There would be less people attending college and competition would take over, prices would fall.

    In conclusion, if occupy Wall Street wants lower tuition, they should protest the federal government, not Wall Street.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:08am

      It’s the same result every time the federal government gets involved in any endeavor, the feds caused the housing meltdown with their forcing banks to make bad loans and they’re meddling in student loans,something they have no business doing .The banks should determine if the risk is acceptable with no backing from the feds,since the banks capital is at risk they’ll do their job to ensure the applicant is a good credit risk.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:35am

      PROOGRESSIVE: I agree with you about the home loans and student loans. Knowing that the OWS movement was founded by an anti-capitalist Far Left Canadian group and knowing Obama’s Far Left ties, makes me convinced this is a planned and deliberate attempt to destroy our economic system through over-spending and irresponsible policies. DELIBERATE.

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    • DIR
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:05pm

      “‘Occupy Graduation’ Urges Students to Protest Tuition Prices as Last Act at University!”

      This is nothing more than a rediculous call, by Occupy leadership, for a student insurrection. Most students won’t be duped by this idiotic request. Students with the loans are the ones who’s reputations are on the line. It’s easy for the Occupy leaders, who are nothing more than a few rabble rousers, to plant the seeds of an insurrection. Idiots, the voice of Van Jones and the like, have nothing to loose. Apparently they think students are all idiots. Some maybe, but I‘d like to think a vast majority aren’t. The students who give into this suggestion are lost anyway. Wait until it recks their credit, recks their chances at getting a job and ability to purchase things they need. Will Occupy come to their rescue. NO They’ll treat the loosers like the useful idiots they are and hang them out to rot in the sun.

      Occupy, supported by a vast majority of democratic leaders (including Obama, Po-lousy and a bunch more), is nothing more than a small group of idiots, pretending to be a big group, and are trying to overthrow the U.S. Van Jones and the other voices of Occupy will get theirs in the END, figuratively and literally!

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  • ranger82
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:40am

    this is bs!!! timeline….I join infantry at 17, serve 12 yrs, earn my own way,couldnt go to school,couldnt afford it. I work for my money. NOBODY forced them to take out loans,now they can pay them off. give them all 1 year after mommie and daddy arent paying for the 40k car,housing,food,smart phone and the list goes on and on…lets see if they want to kick in out of there pay for someone else to go to school and learn to hate the country the way they do! I was next to a recent grad on a plane that didnt know where somalia was or that we fought and lost good men there! that is what presidents like clinton and obama bring us through higher education.

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  • RedDirtTexas
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:39am

    By Golly! The head is eating it’s tail! Good!

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  • HKS
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:24am

    If these guys think demonstrating will make 1 + 1 = 3, than I really don’t think that education worked.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:42am

      Think that math is part of that 99% and 1% media bull these guys like to REPEAT hoping the bad math becomes accepted ! Trouble is : we ain’t buying it ! No matter how many times you repeat a lie, it will NOT become truth . A lie is a lie is a lie….

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:52am

    Well, this is the only thing that I can support the OWS idiots on. The root cause of their problems….excessive government spending and waste.

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    • BreeZee
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:42am

      ows are still just usefull idiots. had they been taught any kind of critical thinking they would have protested at the collages, Washington DC and not wall street. Not only did these ppl willingly sign for the loan they should have payed more attention to the unwarrented tuition inflation over the past twenty years. gov’t needs to quit funding these univerity “scams” with our money. we give money to places like harvard and they have endowments in the billions.

      as for the occutards? NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS FREE! your useless indoctrination from public schools WAS PAID FOR BY TAX PAYERS and the gov’t does not make money IT TAKES IT FROM THE TAX PAYERS.

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  • RougeFastFingers
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:55am

    Maybe if your ‘teachers’ didn‘t get huge salaries with tons of benifits you wouldn’t have to pay so much. How ironic is it that the morons that are trying to make you radical are robbing you blind to do it.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:19am

      Yes. Just like the union bosses use their “ subjects” to strong arm for them ! Teachers using students to ensure more job security ! Kids as useful tools . Familiar tactic ? Blatant conflict of interest ? Who represents the TAX PAYER who gets to fund all of these Santa Claus Projects ? Who ? NO BODY , that’s who . ( Tea Party was born over this injustice : Taxation without representation ! ) Jesus saves, but congress and the federal government just SPEND !

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  • hi
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:45am

    If it were me I would write “Thank you for the loan so it was possible for me to receive a degree from this great college.”

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:42pm

      Yes thanks for the degree’s so I can be a union neandrethal and push pretty buttons and swab the toilet.

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  • FromSeaToSea
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:54am

    The education system in the US is pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Blame should be shared by the Gov., Teacher Unions, Teachers, Students, Parents, and Courts. Nothing but a babysitting service for most kids. It’s broken and can not be fixed. A fix requires morals and we don’t have any. It’s over. The greatest society ever to live on planet earth is passing into history forever because there are no morals in our society.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:57am

    all these tarts complaining about their tuition ……………………how about you post what your tuition is, and then tell us what major and minor that money was spent on

    i have no problem assisting those who took classes that have merit, like math and engineering , but all those liberal studies , women studies, and other pc cr@p like liberal arts can freakin whistle dixie

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    • Ravings of a lunatic planet
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:27am

      You are absolutely 100% correct! “Liberal Arts???” WTH? I have 2 stepdaughters that I love, but they wouldn’t listen to us. We told them to go to the community college for the AA which we would have paid for 100% then 2 more years to university to get your BA, to be a pathetic Social Worker. (that comes from their mother, ugh)……..now they are bitching about the debt.! They both got their Masters at nearly no cost………..I told them they better marry well to do men……..(smiling, but serious)…….because these girls come with major money baggage with Master‘s in the field that pay’s nothing……..

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:18am

    I say the government should only subsidize the education of those that we NEED as a Nation. Doctors, nurses, engineers, chemists and such. We DON”T need to subsidize the professional communists, studies of “alternate sexual preferences” and basket weaving.

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  • GrumpyCat
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:18am

    The only reason tuition is so high is because subsidized student loans are so cheap. As long as the Government will finance any tuition rate without questioning the value received then tuition will only go up and up and up.

    Just the same as for gasoline. No matter how much you complain so long as you still purchase your weekly quota of gasoline there is no reason for prices to do anything but go up.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:15am

    My situation here is, my broken arm feels fine all day, then it hurts like hell as soon as it’s badtime, like it’s tearing itself apart. And to try to sleep, I have to take a little of their bizarre but apparently harmless nedication, which feels nice, but does not let me sleep. Pray for my arm, my left arm, to heal.

     
  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:12am

    Excuse my egotism, but who reads The Blaze any more except to see my comments? While I am writing as a political prisoner in a psych ward???????

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:10am

    You occupied our Capitol in Madison and got nothing. That’s how life works.
    Nothing you gain through mindless force is kept.

    Who made speeches at the Conference in Green Bay today??

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:07am

    The Occupy movement doesn’t exist. They are powerful only according to propagandists. Glenn Beck isn’t a propagandist. Buck Sexton is. Let my Glenn Beck go…

    Certain FORCES (phooey) are seemingly trying to make this a dark discouraging night in the UW Health psych ward. But you see what I am doing. Posting as usual.

    To the dark side I say: phooey, phooey, phooey.

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  • BJC
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:07am

    We need to sell our own ball and chains. Ours should say taxed to death to pay for leeches.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 12:51am

    WHAT? Pretest against the Liberal Universities, whose Professors form a PseudoUnion, demanding ceaseless Pay Increases… as supported by a Liberal Government?

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 12:51am

    Public education is a public good–we have every reason to set aside public resources to ensure that the socioeconomic status a person is BORN into, does not determine the levels of education their personal desires and abilities allow them to achieve.

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    • tzion
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:20am

      What public resources? We are 15 trillion in debt with a deficit well into the trillions. The whole point of the American system is that their are no “public resources”. There’s what private sector workers contribute in order to provide for the public sector, whose sole purpose is to protect the private sector’s freedom to do business. This isn’t Saudi Arabia, where all the oil is owned by the state.

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    • Bryan B
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:35am

      @tzion

      I’m with you on this.

      I think the States should provide education to the 9th grade, and after that you are on your own…..

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    • tzion
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:45am

      @Bryan B
      I’ll second that. I’ll add that everyone, as part of a standard education, should be taught proper history and the basics of economics and finance. If after receiving an education a child doesn’t even understand interest rates, supply and demand relations, and how to balance a check book, how can they be expected to succeed? If they don’t even understand our past, how can they be prepared for the future? Are foreign languages and PE somehow more important than that?

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:58am

      That’s stupid–I bet you wouldn’t object to the government building roads, or maintaining a standing army to defend your citizenship and the privileges you enjoy therefrom. Why? Because there is an obvious public good to be obtained from those things. If you take your argument to its logical conclusion, it’s anarchism–no government exists without taking in revenue and spending it. And while there are certain observations from this philosophy worth thinking on, the notion that even the ideal political system would not have some kind of collective authority with powers to act on behalf of the polity is likely fanciful.

      Nor can we just naively assume that the private individuals that makes up the economy, whose ownership thereof is vastly disproportionate and consequently their power to dictate the form thereof, can do EVERYTHING a government is supposed to do, and provide for the ideal life. We have tried this nonsense before, and the resulting corruption is the CAUSE of many laws Republicans no rail against, ignorant of history.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:04am

      THIRD : oh, please , your educational mullahs have filled your head with all of this Far Left / anti authority clap trap. And imagine much of the brainwashing was done at the expense of the sucker Americans who pay their taxes. What a waste of resources.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:57pm

      There is absolutely no benefit for tax payers to pay for the building of a olympic style swimming pool at a public school or other wishlist fantasies it has gone out of control.

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  • She_Urkel
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 12:38am

    If they were really anti-capitalist, these people wouldn’t have sold their ball and chains–they’d have given them away. Trying to make a buck on the anti-capitalist rally…hypocrites!

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on May 13, 2012 at 12:34am

    Well… I want to protest the cost of the education these fools already got! Where does the line start?

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