College: “Let students eat government cheese”
April 15, 2010 by Jake SimmsPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Internet, Latest News & Views
Tuition hikes are squeezing more and more students. One college has the obvious solution:
Sign up for food stamps.
Portland State University, for example, gives students all the info they need on its Web site. Signing up for the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program is a snap! (Sorry for the bad pun.)
With colleges and universities charging students $50,000 a year for tuition and living expenses, no wonder some students can barely afford Ramen noodles. Government student loans only go so far. And everyone knows you need administrators — plenty of them — to run a college.
Here are some food stamp “facts” from Portland State’s Web site:
- “Over half of all U.S. citizens will use SNAP at least once during their lifetime.” True.
- “SNAP is not a charity. As a taxpayer, you are paying into this program and, when needed, you can reap the benefits.” Uhhh …
- “There are enough SNAP dollars for everyone that needs them.” Right. And China will keep loaning us money as long as we need it.
Guess students are hungry for more than knowledge these days.
Got an opinion? Sound off in the comments section.
Tags: food stamps, Portland State University, SNAP, tuition, tuition hikes
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April 16th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I like cheese.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Are you saying students should starve to keep the US from borrowing more money on top of the huge Iraq war deficit? Maybe they should simply be sent to Iraq. Better to feed them through the military than through SNAP–if the former, they’ll get their heads blown off & the need to feed them will end.
April 19th, 2010 at 4:06 am
get the government out of the education business, and costs would fall dramatically. education would become fantastically more affordable and accessible to all, and much less wasteful of resources that could meet other needs. the education market is already trying to move this way (online classes) and the demand for it is enormous. only government, unions, and those with political connections resist it.
don’t believe me? do some research at http://www.mises.org
MIT has put all info for their entire curriculum online for free – you just have to pay for the degree. if you don’t need the degree, you don’t pay a cent.
Jamie Escalante: Master Teacher, Envious System
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north831.html
April 20th, 2010 at 3:59 am
get the government out of the education business, and costs would fall dramatically. education would become fantastically more affordable and accessible to all, and much less wasteful of resources that could meet other needs. the education market is already trying to move this way (online classes) and the demand for it is enormous. only government, unions, and those with political connections resist it.
MIT has put all info for their entire curriculum online for free – you just have to pay for the degree. if you don’t need the degree, you don’t pay a cent.
Jamie Escalante: Master Teacher, Envious System
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north831.html
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I think the writer’s point was not “students should starve to keep the US from borrowing more money”, but that colleges are inflating their costs very much and then everyone has to cut corners in little things.
Meanwhile teacher salaries are not rising much at all. It is important to ask where all the money is going and “administrator salaries” and “inflated numbers of administrators” are good first guesses. There is absolutely NO need to send students to Iraq and have them fed by the military – and anyway that solution will hardly work after the US pulls out of Iraq.
There needs to be an investigation of why college costs are so high, and the investigating body should have a fair number of students and faculty on it.