Big Education vs. Big Oil

This country is run by old white men from Texas. It's run by Big Oil, right?

Well, read this excerpt I gleaned from a great Forbes article on the inexorable rising price of college tuition. Note my bold emphasis.

Here is a very small but very telling contributor to the cost line: lobbying. To stay on Congress' good side, higher-education institutions spent $602 million on lobbying over the last ten years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That is more than either the real estate or the oil and gas industries spent. The lobbying paid off again in September, when President Bush signed a bill to boost financial aid by $20 billion over the next five years. The measure--the biggest jump in college aid since the GI Bill--raises the maximum value of a Pell Grant by $1,090 over five years, to $5,400 in 2012. It also cuts in half the interest rate on student loans awarded for need to 3.4%, over four years.

Did you get that? Big Education out-lobbied, er OUT-SPENT, those depraved oil companies.

Now, suppose for the sake of argument that the Iraqi War was really completely motivated by "oil". If that's the case, emancipated minds would have to agree that the actual waging of the war has been hamstrung by bureaucracy, impotence, and political correctness - all prevailing tenets of Big Government and its ministry of misinformation - Big Education. When it comes to aggregate influence in America no special interest group can hold a candle to the statists in terms of either money spent or humanity robbed.

Make sure you click on that Forbes link above. If you are still suffering from your own education, then maybe just check out the article's illuminating graphs pictures.

All you need to know about the priorities of Big Education was summed up best by Albert Shanker, the pioneering organizer of teachers' unions.



"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."

Here's a link on the disgusting NEA.

Remember, all education is mind control - even homeschooling.

But there's a big difference between political and parental indoctrination.