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“We are attending a Mercatus Center conference in Scottsdale,” our resident hard-right ideologue George Rebane
pontificates this morning. “As supporters of that institute at
Georgetown University, we have benefitted from their research into public policy issues that seek to buttress the preservation of rights summarized in The Bastiat Triangle (q.v.).”
For the record, Dr. Rebane, the Mercatus Center is at George Mason University — not Georgetown University.
Nonetheless, I have no doubt of your dedication to this esteemed house of learning and “think tank” affiliated with the Koch family.
Hope you can catch a Spring Training game!
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Georgetown? George Mason? Close enough, when you are a Koch user, lol.
George will have time to correct it before the next “plenary session.” I find it ironic to confuse Georgetown with George Mason in light of the recent Georgetown/Sandra Gluck/Rush Limbaugh fiasco. A Freudian slip?
Update: George has corrected his post to now read “George Mason,” without so much as a single thank you.
George has done very well for himself with his public schools education, service in US military, government funding for his projects, teaching at a public university, and working for the government. I guess he no longer sees the use for government since he got his. I find it very interesting that those who benefited rail against government the hardest. Possibly their world view shaped their behavior inside government. Self fulfilling prophecy.
What Ben is writing about here is what bothers me the most about the conservative movement.
In my teaching at Chico State, it always surprises me when my students tell me that their parents tell me that “I have to put myself through school, because my dad did it in the 1970s,” or something of the sort. What dad always seems to forget is that in the 1970s, it only took about 105 hours to pay a CSU tuition bill at $2 per hour. Today it takes about 800 hours to pay our $6000+ tuition bill at $8 per hour. In other words, the people of California picked up the dad for good ol’ dad, but not junior!
Tony
Tony,
Exactly. Tom McClintock got through UCLA for less than a $1,000 per year for under graduate studies but doesn’t want that same opportunity for today’s students who have to pay $25,000 a year. When adjusted for inflation it should be $3,500 annually.
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
His ideology can’t figure out why we are falling behind in the sciences and tech profession. Maybe due to the fact that people have to pay off a $100,000 or more college debt, so they look towards finance and business degree’s instead.
Student debt has surpassed $1 trillion. Just between access to universities and health care America has put itself in a position where it cannot compete in a global market, since we are the only developed nation that has both of these in the profitization arena instead of public.
Mr. Rebane occasionally reminds me of Michael Keaton in “Mr. Mom” when the boss asked him if he was rewiring the house 220v?
Michael Keaton’s character said “220, 221, whatever works……”