Once again the poor little middle classes are revolting. The future lawyers, doctors, bankers and multinational high earners are complaining that they will have to use some of their high wages to pay for their education. What a shame! I feel so sad for the future big bonus earners that I might even consider sending them a food parcel for Christmas, unless I have frozen to death by then of course. When I was an imitation Hippy students wanted to end war and bring a peaceful revolution to this hard world, now these spoilt brats just complain because they will not earn as much as their fathers earned by over charging folks. Shame!
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I heard a mob of them today, interviewed on local radio, whining about their 'right' to a university education paid for by other people.
It seems to me that the word 'right' is much overused these days. We enter this world with just one right, the right, at some unspecified time in the future, usually a time not of our choosing, to die.
That's our one immutable right. All else is privilege, granted by our fellow humans.
The persons who wrote 'We hold these truths to be self-evident" must have been a set of eithervery cloistered people... or liars. For an awful lot of people whose lives were in their grasp, the 'self evident' rights were an impossible dream.
So, I hear a group of would-be university students blaming the present government for all the ills of the country.
It seems they're unaware of the global picture. It seems they're unaware of the obscene levels of university spending on prestigious architecture, rather than on teaching. It seems they're unaware of the billions we had spent on invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the commitments made by a previous government. It seems they're unaware that the fatcat bankers and brokers had a university education too.
The simple fact is that the piggy bank is empty.
And too many people see university as a right, as something I should pay extra taxes for, to subsidise them to do their worthless courses. No, I say. Work for it. We still have a few libraries, use them, feed your head, learn for free. Don't expect me to subsidise you for a few more years of lying in bed until the afternoon, parties and music festivals. Those days are over.
And understand this. Your "History of Fine Arts" degree is worthless. As is your "Gender studies in twentieth century media".
Get real.
Organic chemistry? Okay. Structural engineeering? yes. Medicine, yes.
But don't tell me you're going to study the "21st century zeitgeist as epitomised by the rise of gay television presenters"
Because I might just stuff you in a trash bin and tell you to call it home.
"Gender studies in twentieth century media"
Indeed that is what we pay too many for!
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