Capitalist Libertarian Freedom Region

Considering where I am, Sweet Home Alabama would be a natural enough choice, but for the meandering path that was my young life, Call Me The Breeze rings truer to my heart.

President Biden is once again trying to buy votes with taxpayer money, this time with student loan forgiveness. What the president seems to forget is that someone is going to pay those loans off. If not the students, that someone will be the US taxpayers.

The Supreme Court already told Biden that he can't do that. However, he is doing trying it again in spite of the high court's ruling.

What do you think. New poll is up.

Hmm, few American industries enjoy an unquestioned perpetual upward hockey stick of profitability like Big Education.
The cash endowments some of these schools sit on are almost unbelievable.
For example, Harvard could cover one entire class worth's of tuition over the course of a four year degree, and at worse, break even.
Yet, they do not get pasted with the greed label, and picketed to provide their product for free out of their own pocket like most every other business.

It is funny to think that we must thank Big Education for informing Big Pharma's ability to help save lives, as well as Big Oil's ability to make it even possible for Big Pharma to produce and distribute the medicines it has learned to make.
Yet, Big Oil and Pharma are looked at with a jaundiced eye that will never look at academy with anything but respect and adoration.

For progressives, every individual responsibility is an entitlement to be provided by government in the interest of control, and under the influences of weaponized identity politics, who gets what paid for by whom is never consistently, nor objectively measured.

Someone recently asked;
"How do we restore trust and/or faith in
[insert institution here]?"
I responded;
"Get politics out of it."

In summation, education is a privilege.
Like driving a motor vehicle, it is too potentially dangerous to the operator and those around it through misuse to just allow people to access any/all information highways willy nilly, and paying for something helps develop an appreciation for it.

The most dangerous things we use, are those things we take for granted.

And... We're back!

Looks like we lost a couple posts and the last poll. Other than that, we're good to go.

I was reading between the lines in a Fox News article about the "pro-Palestinian" occupation of the admin building at Columbia University the other day. The story basically says the protestors held a maintenance worker "hostage," then let him go as an act of "good faith."

However the two pictures running with the article tell a far different story. My guess is the protestors found it to be in their best interests to let the maintenance worker go before he kicked their asses up and down that hallway. That left me laughing harder than I should have.

I know, I know, small things to amuse small minds. However, that brings about today's poll. What do you think about all the college protests over the war in Gaza?

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia-university-facilities-worker-speaks-terror-takeover-held-hostage

Everyone! vote in this poll:
page=poll/p=300324
Results will probably be biased but oh well :)

That is a hard choice between three and four.

I do not even care to talk about American protests and protestors anymore.
Jan 6 illustrated how absurd the double standard is, and how impossible it is to be objective about how, how often, and why the two wings operate as they do when tempers flare.
Especially since the temper of the Left is always flared, and have complete leave to set the public square on fire, while the mainstream are expected to sit down on their hands, shut up, and happily eat whatever crap sandwich progressives decide to feed them.

Corporate Collective Salvation wrote:

That is a hard choice between three and four.

I do not even care to talk about American protests and protestors anymore.
Jan 6 illustrated how absurd the double standard is, and how impossible it is to be objective about how, how often, and why the two wings operate as they do when tempers flare.
Especially since the temper of the Left is always flared, and have complete leave to set the public square on fire, while the mainstream are expected to sit down on their hands, shut up, and happily eat whatever crap sandwich progressives decide to feed them.

I am reminded of the old quotation: "America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, it will cease to be great."
Greatness is quickly fading before our eyes...

It is worse than that if you consider that the most malevolent powers are often birthed out of the ruin of a corrupted benevolent state.
Should the US ever go completely dark, it will devolve into something that Hitler and Stalin could only have wet dreams about.
The irony that all of the fools wrapping themselves up in the emotional hyperbole of anti-American rhetoric would see what a great Satan really looks like is a bit delicious, but very cold comfort in light of how much of the world will suffer in concert with an economically and ethically failing US.