Outside of the negligible effect on "personal responsibiliby", would you please tell me how larger federal funding of public university education coupled with more generous federal aid would be negative for the country as a whole?
The universities are spending money on bullshit, and not education..... we can not afford to keep giving them money.
Why not let universities exist on their own merits...? Why do we have to publicly fund them?
The private school my kids attend kicks out more honor student than not (my two oldest included) and not a dime comes from gov't.
Just look at Hillsdale College, not public funding... all private, and they are doing a great job.
Again, government is not the answer here....
Why should I care about a college that makes it clear that it is providing a counter-bias to a perceived bias in higher education? Sure, I'm sure plenty of productive people have graduated from there, but I don't think it's anything special.
That "liberal" universitry Harvard has more than $20 billion in endowment. That sure doesn't all come from the government.
Is there any evidence that a graduate from Hillsdale college is any less productive than a gradate from a university that recieved significant government funding? Is there any evidence that a graduate from Hillsdale is any more productive than a graduate from UCLA, Berkeley, UGA, Georgia Tech, Penn State, U Minnesota, U Mich, Michigan State, Wisconsin-Madison, U Mass, Rutgers, or any other public university I can name from the top of my head?
There is no indication that the federal government is close to a debt crisis. Why are you saying that the Federal Government can't afford to give more generous aid?