How a lot of my generation feels about its school these days

A 1964 graduate reflects on the damage done to his school by relentless politicization. This is where just about all my friends are regarding our colleges today.

The frustration level to come to grips with this reality is growing exponentially.  It's going to take some enlightened leadership among blacks to deal with this.


Somewhere we've heard this before:

The reason for the county’s extravagant borrowing was prosaic: Nassau was spending far more than it took in. The county’s major taxes—property and sales—exactly tracked inflation between 1992 and 2000. But spending grew 13 percent after inflation, saddling the county’s $2.5 billion budget with chronic nine-figure deficits, including a deficit in 2000 that was nearly 7 percent of spending. The public-safety budget, for example, increased from $355 million in 1992 to $555 million, thanks to ballooning compensation costs. (Noting that the average cop’s salary had broken through the six-figure mark, Long Island Business News commented that “Nassau has more police officers who work fewer hours for higher pay than any other comparable department in the nation.”) Compensation costs in other departments, too, were rising. Raises and cost-of-living increases for public workers “pursuant to various collective bargaining agreements” were weighing the budget down, the county reported. Retroactive pay agreements, early-retirement costs, and health-care expenses were all becoming unaffordable.

Currently there are four California municipalities that have effectively declared bankruptcy. The worst is yet to come.

Ah yes, this story is why no thinking person trusts the government, even though they never should have in the first place. The revolving door is busier than ever despite Obama's promises to stop it.