CSU Strike and Other People's Money

From Long Beach to Dominguez Hills, college instructors are joining the warped ranks of the Occupy Everywhere movement, claiming not just a presence in the "99%", but also as the educators for this motley group.

Professor Domingo-Forasté claims that the protests on Cal State campuses is not about money per se, but about its poor and inadequate allocation.

In severe metaphorical fashion, he hyperbolizes the current Cal State administration as akin to the Pigs of Bell, who fed off the trough of local taxpayer money while bullying residents with higher taxes and lower quality governance.

The scenario of municipal misconduct accurately describes the post-secondary institutions into which every graduating class shuffles off to. Our youth are forced-fed four years of liberal pabulum which prepares them for nothing but a "life-should be fair" entitlement mentality, the ferocity of which this country has seen on display throughout the Occupy Everywhere movements. The violence of disillusioned youth mixed with widespread indolence and insolence is enough to demand even less revenue be accorded to the current slate of post-secondary educational facilities, for the vast majority of these protesters are liberal arts layabouts or post doc spin doctors who refuse to settle for whatever employment they can find. This crass demand mentality is no more apparent than in the ongoing demand from their ranks for a high minimum wage absent any effort and a grand forgiveness of student debt.

Instead of picketing over the lack of funds, Cal State University officials need to invest in teaching the basics to our graduate youth, like an employable trade that guarantees employment. Instead of depending on money from the bankrupt state, university officials must turn their revenue collection over to the free market (whose effective forces are foreign to most isolated, self-satisfied academics). Once competition sets in, tuition and resources will rise and fall in accordance with supply and demand from the local and national communities, making a college affordable and worthwhile.