Angry Graduate Wrote This Letter To His University. It's Hard Not To Agree With Him.

[truedelphi]

136. The points you make are most excellent.

However, I feel the need to also point out that the reason the states are cutting back on educational funding is because the states are broke.

For instance, California basically went belly up on account of the down tick and collapse in the housing market in 2005, followed by the economic collapse of 2008.

If we had a federal government and a Congress that cared, we would have had infusions of money to the hard hit states.

This is how the government once operated, with programs that continually offered opportunities for people in the middle class. It was rare for anyone from either party to say they did not want help for middle class Americans. For instance, back in the mid to late 1940's, when the president of the US and our Congress realized the housing market had not created enough new homes to accommodate the returning GI's from the European and Pacific theaters of war, then both the President and Congress worked on huge home loan programs to get people into housing. This created jobs, which created more jobs.

But these days our Predatory governmental "elected" Officials are mere pawns of the "persons" they really work for - that is Big Corporations, including Big Finance.

If I were ever able to talk to Pres. Obama face to face, I would pose this question: Just why was it that when governors of states whose budgets were underwater, when they sought help from Tim Geithner, they were adamantly told that any help from the Federal government would hurt the nation's monetary situation. He made that statement quite confidently to Governor Ahnold Schwartzennegger, back in the summer of 2010. Then over the next 13 months, the US Federal Government was able to come up with 255 billions of dollars for modernizing the military, and offering up weaponry systems to Israel and the UAE.

Apparently we always have money to modernize our military, but ou Treasury officials want to have nothing to do one of the more sensible activities out there - help the individual states keep their programs in place. (For every state program that remains up and running,t here is money saved, in terms of things the Federal government needs to do.)

Mr. Obama, back in 2010 and 2011, when you stated that for every one dollar in tax revenue raises upon the rich, you will cut two dollars from the Federal government's budget, I hope you think of reducing the military spending before you reduce the social safety net programs. (As explained above - those budgets are already "Cut back" due to severe personnel shortages at Social Service offices across the nation.) Our nation has a military whose strength in weaponry, cutting edge defense techniques and all other important gauges of military strength, surpasses the military strength of the next dozen nations put together.

We need to revise the predatory (and totally pro-military) style of thinking. I am convinced the only hope for the middle class is Ms Warren, who understand s how much importance should be placed in offering young people a chance to have a decent education.