Zalatix
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Yes, summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap | Local News | The Seattle Times
It's like taking away all the cheese and expecting the mouse to try to eat. There's no cheese left, we've hoarded it all. But it's the mouse's fault that they can't find anything to eat. That's what we're doing to the youth of today.
College tuition isn't going up because of student loans. It's because taxpayers no longer fund college like they used to. We all benefited from socialism but now we don't want anyone else to. WTF...
That's what's wrong with us old farts. We snatched away all the benefits for the younger generation, got stingy with taxes, and then told them "hahah, now you try getting ahead."Now, I didn’t go to the UW. But I’m going down Husky memory lane because last week The Seattle Times featured a crop of harried UW students looking rueful and broke. The story said skeptical state legislators often say how “they worked their way through college. And then they ask: Why don’t students do that today?”
Of all our delusions, we old farts cling to this bootstrap one the most. We worked our way up on sweat and chicken grease, we say. Can’t this generation? What’s wrong with them?
What’s wrong is that after we got ours, we cut it off for them.
The reason a summer at KFC could pay for a year of UW med school in 1981 isn’t that we were so hardworking and industrious. It’s that taxpayers back then picked up 90 percent of the tab. We weren’t Horatio Algers. We were socialists.
Today, the public picks up only 30 percent of UW tuition, and dropping.
It's like taking away all the cheese and expecting the mouse to try to eat. There's no cheese left, we've hoarded it all. But it's the mouse's fault that they can't find anything to eat. That's what we're doing to the youth of today.
College tuition isn't going up because of student loans. It's because taxpayers no longer fund college like they used to. We all benefited from socialism but now we don't want anyone else to. WTF...