漫无控制的输血(从几十年以前开始)不讲效益地扩充大学,不但腐蚀了学生成为利益集团,也腐蚀了大学本身。学生只是大学追逐利润的辅料而已。
从这个意义上,普度是个好学校,在一定程度上不跟这些人同流合污。他这里面说了现在简直被人忘记的原则,个人需要承担个人的责任和风险,学校承担学校的责任和风险,政府承担政府的责任和风险,而不是自己胡搞捅了漏子然后让别人来付账。
这个DANIELS年纪有点大了(还是比白等小好几岁),要不要出来竞选总统啊。
The colorful Ohio Gov. Jim Rhodes once likened George Romney’s run for the presidency to “a duck trying to [make love to] a football.” I wish he had been around to put a label on the federal student-loan program. In the sad catalog of its failures, the federal government has set a new standard. President Biden’s debt-cancellation announcement represents the final confession of failure for a venture flawed in concept, botched in execution, and draped with duplicity.
The scheme’s flaws have been well chronicled. It’s regressive, rewarding the well-to-do at the expense of the less fortunate. It’s grossly unfair to those who repaid what they borrowed or never went to college. It’s grotesquely expensive, adding hundreds of billions to a federal debt that already threatens our safety-net programs and national security. Like so much of what government does, it’s iatrogenic, inflating college costs as schools continue to pocket the subsidies Uncle Sam showers on them. And it’s profanely contemptuous of the Constitution, which authorizes only Congress to spend money.