Fair and balanced my ass
Fox News blows. Straight up. Blows. Sorry if you have a problem with that. But let me elaborate.I went upstairs to grab a cup of tea. Fox News was on the TV in the lunch room. The host was discussing the rising cost of textbooks. The statistic that they threw out there was that the average college student spent 900 dollars a year on books and supplies. He then proceeded to begin an interview with some idiot from some organization (which is probably an idiotic organization if they are willing to let this guy represent them).
He proceeded to tell the host that the problem did not exist with the publishers or the schools. He said that the problem was with the amount of federal money that was being given to students was much too high. So they could afford to buy 900 dollars worth of books every year. He pointed out that since students were getting so much money from the government, in turn, let publishers and schools, for that matter, spend more money on more frivolous things, such as cd-roms in books and elaborate expensive sporting facilities (and, if I may add, bricks).
His solution to this problem? Reduce federal grants for education. He urged everyone to send a letter to their congressman requesting that they reduce federal spending on college grants.
If that guy was anywhere near me when I heard, I might have punched him in the face. He wants to reduce federal money that is helping our populace become more educated. Money that is helping students who, otherwise, would have not have had the chance at a college education. It isn’t the fault of the students that publishers and schools are taking them for all they are worth. It is not the fault of the students that they have to buy the new edition of books because a couple words changed here and there. It’s not the fault of the students that publishers put in useless cd-roms in books that no one uses. It’s not the students fault that idiotic overpaid university presidents waste school money on putting bricks down on school pathways. And install million dollar fountains that look like shit. And buy up houses near campus because the students who live there don’t keep it clean enough and we can’t have UD looking like party school.
Yeah, well, FUCK YOU (not you, the guy). Students are forced to overpay for useless services because of people like you. Instead of telling us the government is wrong for helping students, perhaps you need to get on the publishers and schools for raping them. Then the money that the government throws their way won’t go to waste. It’s one of the few places our government has made a sincere and effective investment in the future of our country and its people. And individuals like yourself are trying to ruin it.
Oh yeah. Fox News blows for having this guy on.
posted by Sunder @ 4:58 PM
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