It is interesting to hear liberal college professors railing against businesses for being greedy. What about them? After they get tenure, their jobs are secure for life without a major screw up. Then they teach a few classes each week, and let graduate students grade papers and do the heavy lifting. A lot of them write books and then make the students buy them for the classes they are paid to teach. The work schedule includes a 16 week fall semester, a 16 week spring semester, and an 8 week summer semester. That adds up to a whopping 40 weeks of work every single year. In their spare time, they might go out and get consulting gigs or compete for a government grant to do research. They can get the graduate students to do the research, and that frees up the professor's time for "railing against the machine."
College professors love to complain about people that make more money than them though. You might earn a living by starting a business and providing valued products to consumers. That business may require you to mortgage your home and risk your life savings. You and your family might struggle to survive for a while as the business gets kicked off. Your week may consist of 80 or more hours on the job, leaving you dead tired and having little time with the kids. Your business might even fail after all of the hard work and leave you with an empty nest egg. But if your hard work pays off, and you end up with a successful business, don't make too much money. Some liberal like constitutional law professor Barack Obama will tell you that you didn't do that business yourself. The only reason that business exists is because of the government. You're greedy for making too much money. You can afford to pay your taxes and the taxes of that half of the population that was not quite as "lucky" as you.
So why is the price of higher education rising every year, regardless of economic conditions? Why do those professors continue to make more and more money every year? The rest of us are left with more work to do, because the economy caused some of our co-workers to be laid off. The boss says we won't be getting raises this year either, or even worse, we are forced to take a week or two off without pay. Unfortunately, the bank won't give us a week off from paying the mortgage. That professor doesn't have to worry about paying the bills though. He'll just get another grant from the EPA to study global warming. Then, while the graduate assistant is doing the work for that research grant, the good doctor can go into the classroom and indoctrinate another group of young, gullible minds full of mush. In a mere four years, the university can turn out another crop of thousands of little unemployed socialist zombies to vote for Obama.
The kids these days can't earn enough to pay for college even if they can find a summer job. That's alright if their parents can afford to pay for their tuition and room and board. Otherwise, they take out huge student loans. At graduation, they're lucky to find a job in their chosen field, and they are strapped with $40,000 or more in debt. How can they buy a car or a home until the debt is paid off?
Universities are run by the states for the most part. With the government playing such a large role in higher education, why would anyone expect it to work well? Higher education is nothing but another example of the MessAPolitico that is government control. I feel sorry for the students. We're letting them down. They start out life in the hole, and I don't see how they can dig out before middle age.
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