[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')lected governor of California in 1966 after running a scorched-earth campaign against the University of California, Reagan vowed to “clean up that mess in Berkeley,” warned audiences of “sexual orgies so vile that I cannot describe them to you,” complained that outside agitators were bringing left-wing subversion into the university, and railed against spoiled children of privilege skipping their classes to go to protests. He also ran on an anti-tax platform and promised to put the state’s finances in order by “throw[ing] the bums off welfare.” But it was the University of California at Berkeley that provided the most useful political foil, crystallizing all of his ideological themes into a single figure for disorder, a subversive menace of sexual, social, generational, and even communist deviance.
When Reagan assumed office, he immediately set about doing exactly what he had promised. He cut state funding for higher education, laid the foundations for a shift to a tuition-based funding model, and called in the National Guard to crush student protest, which it did with unprecedented severity. But he was only able to do this because he had already successfully shifted the political debate over the meaning and purpose of public higher education in America. The first “bums” he threw off welfare were California university students. Instead of seeing the education of the state’s youth as a patriotic duty and a vital weapon in the Cold War, he cast universities as a problem in and of themselves—both an expensive welfare program and dangerously close to socialism. He even argued for the importance of tuition-based funding by suggesting that if students had to pay, they’d value their education too much to protest.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')'m sorry that people make really bad choices about taking out college loans but that is on them.

[Cog]

Exactly right Agent.

Parents have that role to teach their kids about their future choices. I didn't need to encourage my daughter to go to college, she wanted to go. But if she had decided otherwise, I would have backed her play. By going to community college her first two years, she saved a great deal of money before she went to the university. She has some student loan debt but at her rate of paying them off, she will be finished with them in a couple of years as opposed to ten years or never.

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')ho is paying for all this free stuff?