>
> It's a sad day when Ann Coulter invades the peaceful sanctuary of
FFL.
She adds a sparkle of common sense, rationality and humour to this
forum.
>
> --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
> wrote:
> >
> > TUITION SOARS DUE TO KNOWLEDGE SHORTFALL
> > May 3, 2006
> >
> >
> > Every sentient, literate adult knows that the current spike in
gas
> > prices is 90 percent due to forces completely beyond the control
of
> > Congress, the White House or even "Big Oil" itself. The laws of
> > supply and demand determine gas prices the same way those laws
> > determine the price of eggs, acid-washed blue jeans and Kanye
West
> > downloads.
> >
> > What determines the price of college tuition? It certainly isn't
the
> > quality of the product as copiously demonstrated in David
> > Horowitz's new book, "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous
> > Academics in America."
> >
> > The two big topics on CNN last week were (1) high gas prices and
(2)
> > the high cost of college tuition. (Also a story about an angry
> > Hispanic lacrosse player who vanished from a cruise ship during
> > Bush's low poll numbers.)
> >
> > CNN reports that college tuition has risen an astonishing 40
percent
> > since 2000. But the proposed solutions to the exact same
problem
> > high prices for gasoline and tuition, respectively were
> > diametrically opposed.
> >
> > The only solution to high gas prices considered on CNN was to
pay
> > oil company executives less, perhaps by order of the president.
But
> > somehow, no one ever suggested that the solution to the high
price
> > of college far outpacing inflation was to pay professors
less.
> > In that case, the solution is for the government to subsidize
> > college professors' salaries even more than it already does.
> >
> > Based on CNN's special coverage of high gas prices, the
unfolding
> > crisis in college tuition ought to be reported like this:
> >
> > Coming up, soaring prices at the colleges. Who's to blame? How
can
> > you keep your child in college and cash in your wallet? And
Harvard
> > outrage, big education makes big bucks, but we pay the price. So
> > should President Bush limit prices? ...
> >
> > To our top story now. It seems like a summer ritual. Rising
> > professors' salaries mean rising tuition prices. But this year,
> > sticker shock at the tuition window is fueling more concern than
> > ever. And it has many people asking where is it going to end?
> >
> > JAMIE COURT, CONSUMER RIGHTS ADVOCATE: Every time you see the
> price
> > of tuition go up, you can hear "ka-ching, ka-ching" in the bank
> > accounts of the college professors.
> >
> > That's how oil company profits are reported. Why not subsidize
the
> > oil companies, which provide a product essential to allowing 300
> > million Americans to live, and put a cap on the price of
college,
> > which seems designed to turn out more liberal parasites on the
> > productive?
> >
> > As economist Richard Vedder of Ohio University has demonstrated,
> > every time the government subsidizes college tuition through
tuition
> > tax credits, college tuition rises by the precise amount of the
> > tuition tax credit.
> >
> > How about investigating the "shameful display of greed" by
college
> > professors?
> >
> > Liberals think hardworking taxpayers who can't afford gas should
pay
> > more in taxes because it is vitally important that young people
be
> > taught that America is the worst country on Earth and that the
> > American bond traders who were murdered on 9/11 deserved it.
> >
> > Maybe with a little less subsidized tuition, colleges couldn't
> > afford luxuries like non-Indian of Indian studies professor Ward
> > Churchill. He makes $120,000 a year as a department head at the
> > University of Colorado, in addition to many speaking fees paid
to
> > him by other institutions of higher learning all heavily
> > subsidized by taxpayers.
> >
> > In addition to providing a vital product, former Exxon CEO Lee
> > Raymond has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering.
> >
> > Churchill doesn't have a Ph.D., not even one of those phony ones
you
> > have to buy on the Internet before you can host your own show on
Air
> > America Radio. He does not produce a product that allows New
Yorkers
> > to eat without turning 90 percent of the city into an
agricultural
> > processing plant.
> >
> > His list of academic achievements consists of his majoring in
> > communications and graphic arts. That's the only part of his
resume
> > that has not already been proved false, probably because no one
> > would make that up.
> >
> > Churchill's written oeuvre consists of rants about how the
Americans
> > who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 deserved it: "Well,
> > really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were
> > civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ... If there
was a
> > better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting
some
> > penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns
> > inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really
be
> > interested in hearing about it."
> >
> > And thus, Churchill joined the ranks of Shakespeare, Tolstoy,
> > Faulkner and other great writers who use the phrase, "Gimme a
> > break." Perhaps he expresses himself better in "graphic arts."
> >
> > American taxpayers subsidize the most cretinous, idiotic, hate-
> > filled lunatics in the universe and liberals are demanding
that we
> > direct our hate toward people like Lee Raymond who allow us to
go to
> > the bathroom indoors.
> >
> > How about Congress having weekly hearings on the price of
college
> > and the salaries of professors like Churchill? Horowitz has
already
> > provided the witness list for the first two years.
> >
> > COPYRIGHT 2006 ANN COULTER
> >
> > DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
> >
> > 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
> >
>
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