The nation is approaching $35 trillion in debt and the quantity is rising quickly. We, as a nation, are headed for a fiscal cliff, and Congress appears decided to push again to Thelma-and-Louise. Now, so as to add to every part else the federal authorities spends our cash on, we have realized that a number of the Ivy League faculties at the moment coping with lethal pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests are additionally authorities beneficiaries of a large $7 billion — and that is simply the 2023 fiscal yr.
In fiscal yr 2023 alone, $5 billion price of taxpayer {dollars} have been awarded to Ivy League faculties by means of sponsorships, grants and contracts. One other $2.1 billion additionally went into different outstanding faculties which have held anti-Israel rallies of late.
Harvard College, Princeton College, Yale College, Columbia College, College of Pennsylvania, Brown College, Dartmouth School and Cornell College – Ivy League faculties which were the scene of essentially the most high-profile anti-Israel unrest.
The uproar has led a number of Republican lawmakers within the Senate and Home to name for the elimination of federal funding for faculties that refuse to meaningfully take care of conditions arising on their respective campuses.
A few of these faculties have spectacular endowments. Among the high ones:
- Harvard: $50,877,680,000
- Yale: $41,383,260,000
- Stanford: $36,338,794,000
- Princeton: $35,126,200,000
- With: $24,600,809,000
Observe that these are the highest 5 endowments billion of {dollars}
In different phrases, these faculties are sitting on big piles of money but nonetheless obtain billions in taxpayer funding. That is to not point out pupil grants and government-guaranteed loans, and keep in mind that the Biden administration has been leaping by means of burning hoops for hundreds of years looking for a approach to repeal the Contract Act and “forgive” these pupil loans.
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Many of those self-governing faculties at the moment are house to anti-Israel camps, audio system who incite anti-Semitism, and helpless directors who do not appear in a position to do a lot in regards to the scenario. Happily, that appears to be altering ultimately.
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It is not simply an Ivy League college.
UC Berkeley acquired greater than $451.4 million, NYU greater than $805.5 million, UT Austin roughly $645.6 million and GWU greater than $200 million.
So why do these universities nonetheless get all of this taxpayer cash?
See, these campuses are at the moment engulfed in anti-Israel protests, protesters who’re largely helpful idiots, simply half of a bigger drawback, which is the state of upper training. The fixed circulate of cash has spawned legions of non-value-adding directors, DEI administrators, and ineffective underwater ethnic dog-policing research packages which have turned America’s college system right into a bitter joke.
In terms of greater training, I am on the “let’s burn every part” stage. No funding, no guidelines, no incentives, nothing, no enjoyable. Increase to states if attainable. Privatize all of it. Any mortgage made for academic functions might be privately sought and granted privately, on the identical foundation as every other mortgage, on the premise of reimbursement potential. Oh, and any international college students who’re collaborating on this protest? Revoke their visas. Ship them house.
That, proper there, would go a good distance towards cleansing up the present mess. In fact, I’ve already added it to the lengthy, lengthy checklist of “what I can not have,” however a person’s attain ought to exceed his grasp.
