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Bernie Sanders and Dark Humor on College Debt
I sometimes chuckle at dark humor. I found myself chuckling at this report that Sen. Bernie Sanders not only supports taxpayer bailout of student debt, but insists that all college should be “tuition-free” (i.e., paid for by taxpayers).
I chuckled because I remembered that his wife (Jane Sanders) had driven a college of which she had been president into insolvency and ultimately to close because of debt incurred while she was president of the college. While she was drawing a large salary that no doubt helped to pay for one or more of the three luxury houses the Sanders own.
Multiple sources, in case you think I’m not being fair.
It may not be entirely fair to blame a husband for the financial idiocy of his wife, but the idea that a guy who could not even help his wife avoid driving a college into insolvency is trying to tell the rest of us how colleges should be run struck me as darkly funny.
Published in Education
Works for me. Especially since Sanders is clueless to begin with.
Oh Geez, I remember that. And not a peep from the MSM.
I don’t believe I’m too far off the beaten path in saying that America’s colleges and universities are the biggest scam in America.
Ridiculous tuition fees for tenured, leftist professors who teach, maybe, one class a quarter/semester (actually, a majority of classes are taught by T.A.s).
Books that are priced FAR above what they should be.
An educational climate that would be the envy of Stalinist Russia or the Third Reich.
A course catalog that closely resembles a MAD magazine.
If you get the opinion that I have a low regard for American education, you’re absolutely right…
I am all for free colleges. Let’s just write a law that colleges are free and let it ride. All those good Democrats and Leftist can work there for the good of humanity. Not sure why the taxpayer needs to be involved at all.
If we had only implemented Bernie’s idea on how colleges should be run (answer: at government expense) his wife’s college would be thriving financially today, compared to everything else.
So perhaps if our standard really should be “what powers could we give government that would make colleges run by people like Bernie’s wife financially successful?” Bernie is right.
Was her college a private school?
Yeah. She had them buy land for expansion that they couldn’t pay for.
If it were a government run or financed school (as Bernie wants), yes it would still be in business because it could (indirectly) hold a figurative gun to the head of taxpayers and force them to pay for the outrageously expensive land deal she championed. Taxpayers could be forced to pay whatever the college wanted. No incentive for financial responsibility.