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President Barack Obama blamed the rising cost of college tuition on profligate state legislators Wednesday, accusing them of cutting higher education funding to pay for prisons and Medicaid.
“What happened, around the ‘80s and ‘90s was state legislators started saying we’ve got to build more prisons. In fairness to them, they also started feeling more pressure because of Medicaid spending, because health care costs were going up,” Obama explained at a town hall meeting in Indiana Wednesday. “And so they started cutting higher education budgets. And they made up for it with higher tuition.”
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
a reply to: xuenchen
How about their profit? That sounds like a nice start.
Where should the colleges start the cuts that could allow for lower tuitions?
originally posted by: CB328
Where should the colleges start the cuts that could allow for lower tuitions?
Yeah, get rid of their ridiculous and immoral sports programs like football.
But I fail to see what Obama said that was so terrible. He did leave out greed as one of the main factors though.
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
a reply to: xuenchen
How about their profit? That sounds like a nice start.
I wonder how much that profit really is?
I bet it's billions.
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: Shamrock6
it's not so much the college sports as it is the extremes they will go to competing with other schools for the talent for their teams. some of the college dorms seem to resemble vacation resorts more than they do college dorms.
originally posted by: JaMeDoIt
Free tuition...some day.
Cheers