32% Inflation in UCLA Tuition Causes Near Riots (14 Arrested, 1 Tasered)

[BlackTerrel]

YouTube - 32% Inflation in UCLA Tuition Causes Near Riots (14 Arrested, 1 Tasered) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33UU6MKuWSE)

[DirtMcGirt]

Is that Ghem at the end of the clip?

I guess the UCLA students are getting a economics 101 lesson first hand. There are no free lunches and money comes from somewhere not simply from the gov't money tree...

[jack555]

Is that Ghem at the end of the clip?

I guess the UCLA students are getting a economics 101 lesson first hand. There are no free lunches and money comes from somewhere not simply from the gov't money tree...

I'm afraid I don't think they have learned a thing. This iis going on to a lesser extent at the Cal States too and I try and explain this stuff to them but they don't get it. Its just the big bad men who run the colleges trying to increase tuition and shut programs down. Taxes and out of control state spending have nothing to do with it.

[Dieseler]

College age is like 6th grade 20 years ago.
They are grown idiots.
Jethro Bodeen would have been a genius by today's standard.

[Pericles]

College age is like 6th grade 20 years ago.
They are grown idiots.
Jethro Bodeen would have been a genius by today's standard.

It is frightening to me how accurate your assessment is. When it does start, it will probably start with something unexpected such as this.

[Dieseler]

It is frightening to me how accurate your assessment is. When it does start, it will probably start with something unexpected such as this.

Yup and think of it this way, they are supposed to be the best and the brightest of the newbies coming up.
Zombies.

[AuH20]

College age is like 6th grade 20 years ago.
They are grown idiots.
Jethro Bodeen would have been a genius by today's standard.

More degrees = less awareness. :D

[Cowlesy]

College age is like 6th grade 20 years ago.
They are grown idiots.
Jethro Bodeen would have been a genius by today's standard.

ain't that the truth.

[ctiger2]

Here's what you do. You cancel your enrollment with the college. Give the Govt. back their money. Move in with Mom/Dad and enroll at a much cheaper community college or trade school and learn a particular skillset. Then you go find a job.

[RevolutionSD]

YouTube - 32% Inflation in UCLA Tuition Causes Near Riots (14 Arrested, 1 Tasered) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33UU6MKuWSE)

Interesting.

What these kids and everyone must realize is this insane tuition hike is what happens when you let government run schools. Government here is the problem. Get government out of education and costs would plummet.

Wake up.

[bobbyw24]

California Grubbing

Posted by Neal McCluskey

Kids often have a tremendous sense of entitlement. Well, there are a lot of kids in California colleges — and running them.

You probably have heard about the University of California Regents voting yesterday for a 32-percent tuition hike over the next two years. Not surprisingly, many students are angry, some enough that they were arrested protesting outside the Regents’ meeting.

Now, a 32 percent hike over two years isn’t small. But here’s the thing: California has typically charged students very little relative to both state taxpayer funding and national averages. As you can see in the chart below, which uses data from the State Higher Education Executive Officers, net per-pupil tuition revenue (meaning revenue from tuition minus any state financial aid) in California has hovered around $1,200 over the last 25 years, and has only gone up about $18 per year. Meanwhile, state taxpayers have been shelling out around $7,300 per pupil per year, with about a $3 annual increase. So state taxpayers have been furnishing the vast majority of funding for California college students, and students have done very little to make up the vast gulf between what they pay and what taxpayers shell out.

So California students have been getting a heck of a deal, which is no doubt one among many reasons the state is on fiscal life support. Sooner or later bills come due, and that has left the state little choice but to make students pay more for the education of which they are by far the biggest beneficiaries.

Naturally – but still shamelessly – students are acting like victims now that the decrepit gravy train is slowing down a bit. Unfortunately, the adults in charge of California colleges are also naturally — but perhaps even more shamelessly – stoking student anger so that they don’t have to do things that make their jobs less pleasant.

Despite the utterly unsustainable taxpayer funding for higher education that California has doled out for decades, for instance, UC president Mark Yudof had no qualms about declaring that:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/20/california-grubbing/

[2young2vote]

My dad worked for Central Michigan University a long time ago and he said that one reason the tuition goes up is because congressmen promise to "help" improve education, and they do that by earmarks from the federal government and also from the state. So these congressmen promise to improve education and they get tons of money to build $60 million dollar buildings (the new science place at CMU cost that much...) but then leave the costs of use and maintenance and all other expense to the school, which then raises the cost on the student and eventually the taxpayer once they start begging EVEN MORE for money from the state.

[Dunedain]

The prices are rising because of the loans they are getting from the government.

When everyone is given money by the government to spend on a good or service the laws of scarcity drive up the prices of those goods and services. For every economic action their is an equal and opposite reation. If the university lowered their prices there would be too many butts and not enough seats.

Prices are not the problem. They are a symptom of the problem. Too much money being handled out to people who have no business getting a degree.

[BlackTerrel]

The prices are rising because of the loans they are getting from the government.

When everyone is given money by the government to spend on a good or service the laws of scarcity drive up the prices of those goods and services. For every economic action their is an equal and opposite reation. If the university lowered their prices there would be too many butts and not enough seats.

Prices are not the problem. They are a symptom of the problem. Too much money being handled out to people who have no business getting a degree.

+100 this is exactly it. It is the exact reason tuition is so expensive. If kids don't have access to this sort of money costs go down. It is simple economics.