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The Government's College Money Pit

Love of Liberty Wrote: Apr 29, 2012 7:02 PM

Perhaps professors will now work for free since their OWS student proteges think making money is evil. The OWS seems to come predominately from college campuses where they are being led by lefty professors. Yet the profs have no problem with outrageous pays for themselves ($350,000 a year for Elizabeth Warren-trying to unseat Scott Brown, Senator from Massachusetts). That money is fine because they didn't produce and needed products for it like in the private sector.

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The Government's College Money Pit

If insanity is doing the same thing again and again but expecting a different outcome, then the federal government's strategy for keeping higher education affordable is crazier than Norman Bates.

For decades, American politicians have waxed passionate on the need to put college within every family's reach. To ensure that anyone who wants to go to college will be able to foot the bill, Washington has showered hundreds of billions of dollars into student aid of all kinds -- grants and loans, subsidized work-study jobs, tax credits and deductions. Today, that shower has become a...