We just don’t get it
As our incomes decrease and our expenses increase, our politicians say that they are on our side, fighting for us, but then they are the guys who are giving tax breaks to big business. These same politicians are the ones who are asking us to work harder. Yet we still vote these knuckleheads in office. We just don’t get it. It ain’t about us. It is about them, the big guys with their multi-million salaries and two or three or four houses.
From C&L:
It’s hitting the fan in California as students protest the grotesque 32% hikes in their college tuition.
Angry students at the Davis, California, branch of the University of California refused to vacate the school’s administration building Thursday evening in a show of defiance and protest over a 32-percent undergraduate tuition hike instituted by the California Board of Regents earlier in the day.
About 50 students remained in the building, which was supposed to close by 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET), UC Davis spokeswoman Claudia Morain told CNN. At one point, as many as 150 students were at the building protesting the tuition increase, she said. She said she hopes campus police can resolve the issue without the need to make arrests.
CNN affiliate KCRA captured footage of students outside the building shouting, “Who’s university? Our university!”
Nearly 400 miles south and hours earlier, hundreds of students marched and chanted against the increase while outside the UCLA building in Los Angeles where regents met to vote on the hike.
Protesting students and others say the increased tuition will hurt working and middle-class students who benefit from state-funded education. But officials argue that a fee increase and deep cuts in school spending are necessary because of a persistent budget crisis that has forced reductions across California’s state government.
California is in bad shape and it’s only to get worse.
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