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Why don't Occupiers protest colleges and universities?
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Originally Posted by Yeledaf
Who's been raising tuitions each year to astronomical heights? And using taxpayer dollars to pay faculty big bucks with mucho perks and, if private, claiming tax-free status while living very large?
All those student loans that everyone is pissing about went into someone's pockets.
Whose, exactly?
We all know you're such courageous streetfighters, Occupiers. Too bad you haven't the nards to confront your professors with the evidence of their greed. Maybe your desire to emulate them trumps your outrage? Hmm?
Suckers...
Been out of the country lately?
This has been all over the news but somehow you missed it.
"The reason we're protesting in the first place is we want the university to be democratic and open," Lee said.
At one point in the teleconference, a UC finance staffer in San Francisco attempted to give a financial report about the state funding situation, but he was drowned out by chanting activists.
Do you see that the boy said he wanted the school run democratically and open? Maybe the Board of Regents should just call out all the staff members and allow the kids to run the place since they would be so much more democratic in spending taxpayers money.
I hope the kid wouldn't call forcing the moving of the meeting because of those democratic students drowning out the business.
Somehow I just can't see how people call what those students were doing as democratic. Do you think it is that?
Who's been raising tuitions each year to astronomical heights? And using taxpayer dollars to pay faculty big bucks with mucho perks and, if private, claiming tax-free status while living very large?
All those student loans that everyone is pissing about went into someone's pockets.
Whose, exactly?
We all know you're such courageous streetfighters, Occupiers. Too bad you haven't the nards to confront your professors with the evidence of their greed. Maybe your desire to emulate them trumps your outrage? Hmm?
Suckers...
Their professors haven't told them to do this yet.
To summarize this momentous event: a fake cop sprayed a bunch of fake students. Talk about collective incompetence -- the mind boggles: he had no business in a uniform, they had no business hanging around a university and playing hooky -- both on the taxpayers' dime. From what I saw of the incident, there were more people taking cellphone videos than anything else. Not exactly the cossacks cutting down the bolsheviks in the snow in 1917...
Your original OP acted as though you did not know about the protests and now you say that you have heard little else. This a thread fail of epic proportions.
Because universities are liberal dominated for the most part. It's their own liberal masters who are the ones just eating up the tuition rates due to all the student loan money available which allows them to raise tuition.
Your original OP acted as though you did not know about the protests and now you say that you have heard little else. This a thread fail of epic proportions.
"Acted as if". Key phrase. Absurd on its face: how does a post act?
Read a little deeper. My reference to the trivial incident being blown up into a meaningful protest speaks for itself. I stand by my contention that the real issues -- namely the greed of the educational institutions whose largesse they enjoy, remain unaddressed by the "protestors", whose demands amount to little more than making themselves the chiefs of their own asylum.
Actually, I'm out of the country right now. Being away from the current lukewarm rerun of 1968 is one of the few blessings I enjoy.
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Why don't Occupiers protest colleges and universities?
