The Dismantling of Higher Education in America

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax said:

mickeyrat said:

so it WASNT going to research for new medicines, cancer treatments, etc etc etc....the research that the rest of the world takes advantage of? 

Hard to follow the logic when you’re looking for your marbles.

leaving aside that those endowments are for specific purposes and harvard is required by law to adhere to that? but no, its just a pile of money sitting tere.

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mickeyrat said:

so it WASNT going to research for new medicines, cancer treatments, etc etc etc....the research that the rest of the world takes advantage of? 

Hard to follow the logic when you’re looking for your marbles.

leaving aside that those endowments are for specific purposes and harvard is required by law to adhere to that? but no, its just a pile of money sitting tere.

There are restricted endowments and there are unrestricted endowments. Endowments are funded by donors, sometimes for very specific purposes and other times the dollars are put into the unrestricted endowment, based on the donor’s wishes or the purpose of the fund raising drive, general fund, scholarships, specific school/college/discipline or new building/major renovations or research/teaching focus.

And yes, donor money is legally required to be spent for the declared purpose/mission as solicited and/or donated. Also, subject to both internal and external audit and reporting requirements.

Lerxst1992

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Halifax2TheMax

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Your secretary of education disagrees with you and does fuzzy math. What a screed you posted. You have no clue regarding the level of accountability that colleges and universities provide to account for and receive federal funding. The march toward fascism continues and you’re all in, sopping up the propaganda while remaining clueless. Congratulations. Watch the two embedded twatter links of testimony within the link below.

I’m pointing out to you, if you’ll release your ALL CAPS BUTTON FOR A MOMENT, that targeted cuts to individual research projects that COOTWH might disagree with, for whatever reason, are not happening. It’s a blanket cut of whatever the amount was, $800 million?, without regard to what research it funds. You don’t understand what endowments are for, why they exist and what they do. Ignorance is leading to fascism. What happened to you, too much DEI?

What law are the colleges and universities operating outside of? Name the statute they violated.

In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.

The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.

If you’re looking for an expert on pile drivers and “Stone Cold Stunners,” Linda McMahon may be the one to call. But when it comes to knowledge of the U.S. education system, it seems abundantly clear she’s lacking in that department.

https://apple.news/AoYvnZXg8QneAQS8hb8wGJQ

And yes, you’re making shit up. Turn off Faux News.

Halifax2TheMax

Making shit up like the Secretary of Education and the MAGA way:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKdgRP7oNBa/?igsh=ODVvbTZtdTd1bDV4

tempo_n_groove

Halifax2TheMax said:

Making shit up like the Secretary of Education and the MAGA way:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKdgRP7oNBa/?igsh=ODVvbTZtdTd1bDV4

She got roasted but are we surprised?

Lerxst1992

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Your secretary of education disagrees with you and does fuzzy math. What a screed you posted. You have no clue regarding the level of accountability that colleges and universities provide to account for and receive federal funding. The march toward fascism continues and you’re all in, sopping up the propaganda while remaining clueless. Congratulations. Watch the two embedded twatter links of testimony within the link below.

I’m pointing out to you, if you’ll release your ALL CAPS BUTTON FOR A MOMENT, that targeted cuts to individual research projects that COOTWH might disagree with, for whatever reason, are not happening. It’s a blanket cut of whatever the amount was, $800 million?, without regard to what research it funds. You don’t understand what endowments are for, why they exist and what they do. Ignorance is leading to fascism. What happened to you, too much DEI?

What law are the colleges and universities operating outside of? Name the statute they violated.

In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.

The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.

If you’re looking for an expert on pile drivers and “Stone Cold Stunners,” Linda McMahon may be the one to call. But when it comes to knowledge of the U.S. education system, it seems abundantly clear she’s lacking in that department.

https://apple.news/AoYvnZXg8QneAQS8hb8wGJQ

And yes, you’re making shit up. Turn off Faux News.

Just because someone agrees that the administration is making reasonable points about funding higher education and research while $40 trillion in debt, does not mean that everything done by the administration is agreed with.

perhaps we should look for other ways to fund universities. In addition to mandating that they spend some of their endowments, Perhaps we should start to tax or charge foreign countries…For the economic benefits they receive for pennies on the dollar. Also, perhaps we should have an additional line on our tax returns, voluntary contribution for university research. There you go. You and Your buddies here and up north can pay as much as you all  want

Halifax2TheMax

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Your secretary of education disagrees with you and does fuzzy math. What a screed you posted. You have no clue regarding the level of accountability that colleges and universities provide to account for and receive federal funding. The march toward fascism continues and you’re all in, sopping up the propaganda while remaining clueless. Congratulations. Watch the two embedded twatter links of testimony within the link below.

I’m pointing out to you, if you’ll release your ALL CAPS BUTTON FOR A MOMENT, that targeted cuts to individual research projects that COOTWH might disagree with, for whatever reason, are not happening. It’s a blanket cut of whatever the amount was, $800 million?, without regard to what research it funds. You don’t understand what endowments are for, why they exist and what they do. Ignorance is leading to fascism. What happened to you, too much DEI?

What law are the colleges and universities operating outside of? Name the statute they violated.

In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.

The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.

If you’re looking for an expert on pile drivers and “Stone Cold Stunners,” Linda McMahon may be the one to call. But when it comes to knowledge of the U.S. education system, it seems abundantly clear she’s lacking in that department.

https://apple.news/AoYvnZXg8QneAQS8hb8wGJQ

And yes, you’re making shit up. Turn off Faux News.

Just because someone agrees that the administration is making reasonable points about funding higher education and research while $40 trillion in debt, does not mean that everything done by the administration is agreed with.

perhaps we should look for other ways to fund universities. In addition to mandating that they spend some of their endowments, Perhaps we should start to tax or charge foreign countries…For the economic benefits they receive for pennies on the dollar. Also, perhaps we should have an additional line on our tax returns, voluntary contribution for university research. There you go. You and Your buddies here and up north can pay as much as you all  want

You still don’t have a clue as to how it all works and the damage being done because COOTWH’s dumb son didn’t get into Harvard or Columbia. I also assume you didn’t see the line of questioning regarding “diversity of thought” and how that shit and what they’re trying to do is straight up Nazi. Send the Secretary of Education some flowers and a box of chocolates and eat a few before you send them. Might make you feel better.

Lerxst1992

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Your secretary of education disagrees with you and does fuzzy math. What a screed you posted. You have no clue regarding the level of accountability that colleges and universities provide to account for and receive federal funding. The march toward fascism continues and you’re all in, sopping up the propaganda while remaining clueless. Congratulations. Watch the two embedded twatter links of testimony within the link below.

I’m pointing out to you, if you’ll release your ALL CAPS BUTTON FOR A MOMENT, that targeted cuts to individual research projects that COOTWH might disagree with, for whatever reason, are not happening. It’s a blanket cut of whatever the amount was, $800 million?, without regard to what research it funds. You don’t understand what endowments are for, why they exist and what they do. Ignorance is leading to fascism. What happened to you, too much DEI?

What law are the colleges and universities operating outside of? Name the statute they violated.

In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.

The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.

If you’re looking for an expert on pile drivers and “Stone Cold Stunners,” Linda McMahon may be the one to call. But when it comes to knowledge of the U.S. education system, it seems abundantly clear she’s lacking in that department.

https://apple.news/AoYvnZXg8QneAQS8hb8wGJQ

And yes, you’re making shit up. Turn off Faux News.

Just because someone agrees that the administration is making reasonable points about funding higher education and research while $40 trillion in debt, does not mean that everything done by the administration is agreed with.

perhaps we should look for other ways to fund universities. In addition to mandating that they spend some of their endowments, Perhaps we should start to tax or charge foreign countries…For the economic benefits they receive for pennies on the dollar. Also, perhaps we should have an additional line on our tax returns, voluntary contribution for university research. There you go. You and Your buddies here and up north can pay as much as you all  want

You still don’t have a clue as to how it all works and the damage being done because COOTWH’s dumb son didn’t get into Harvard or Columbia. I also assume you didn’t see the line of questioning regarding “diversity of thought” and how that shit and what they’re trying to do is straight up Nazi. Send the Secretary of Education some flowers and a box of chocolates and eat a few before you send them. Might make you feel better.

It doesn’t matter. I’ve told you numerous times it’s not the taxpayers responsibility to understand the mechanics of find accounting. SEE!

it’s our money, we are in debt, they have billions, plus the ability to earn massive revenue each year. They are free to do what they want with their curriculum, but they are not entitled to receive taxpayer money and do whatever they want.

Another example of liberal histrionics that will help republicans.

Halifax2TheMax

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Your secretary of education disagrees with you and does fuzzy math. What a screed you posted. You have no clue regarding the level of accountability that colleges and universities provide to account for and receive federal funding. The march toward fascism continues and you’re all in, sopping up the propaganda while remaining clueless. Congratulations. Watch the two embedded twatter links of testimony within the link below.

I’m pointing out to you, if you’ll release your ALL CAPS BUTTON FOR A MOMENT, that targeted cuts to individual research projects that COOTWH might disagree with, for whatever reason, are not happening. It’s a blanket cut of whatever the amount was, $800 million?, without regard to what research it funds. You don’t understand what endowments are for, why they exist and what they do. Ignorance is leading to fascism. What happened to you, too much DEI?

What law are the colleges and universities operating outside of? Name the statute they violated.

In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.

The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.

If you’re looking for an expert on pile drivers and “Stone Cold Stunners,” Linda McMahon may be the one to call. But when it comes to knowledge of the U.S. education system, it seems abundantly clear she’s lacking in that department.

https://apple.news/AoYvnZXg8QneAQS8hb8wGJQ

And yes, you’re making shit up. Turn off Faux News.

Just because someone agrees that the administration is making reasonable points about funding higher education and research while $40 trillion in debt, does not mean that everything done by the administration is agreed with.

perhaps we should look for other ways to fund universities. In addition to mandating that they spend some of their endowments, Perhaps we should start to tax or charge foreign countries…For the economic benefits they receive for pennies on the dollar. Also, perhaps we should have an additional line on our tax returns, voluntary contribution for university research. There you go. You and Your buddies here and up north can pay as much as you all  want

You still don’t have a clue as to how it all works and the damage being done because COOTWH’s dumb son didn’t get into Harvard or Columbia. I also assume you didn’t see the line of questioning regarding “diversity of thought” and how that shit and what they’re trying to do is straight up Nazi. Send the Secretary of Education some flowers and a box of chocolates and eat a few before you send them. Might make you feel better.

It doesn’t matter. I’ve told you numerous times it’s not the taxpayers responsibility to understand the mechanics of find accounting. SEE!

it’s our money, we are in debt, they have billions, plus the ability to earn massive revenue each year. They are free to do what they want with their curriculum, but they are not entitled to receive taxpayer money and do whatever they want.

Another example of liberal histrionics that will help republicans.

They “don’t do ‘whatever’ they want” with government funding. Again, you have no idea what you’re discussing and you refuse to get “woke.”

Maybe comprehend the Secretary of Education wanting “diversity of thought” in exchange for government funding. Straight up Nazi shit. But I get it, you’re all in.

Lerxst1992

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Your secretary of education disagrees with you and does fuzzy math. What a screed you posted. You have no clue regarding the level of accountability that colleges and universities provide to account for and receive federal funding. The march toward fascism continues and you’re all in, sopping up the propaganda while remaining clueless. Congratulations. Watch the two embedded twatter links of testimony within the link below.

I’m pointing out to you, if you’ll release your ALL CAPS BUTTON FOR A MOMENT, that targeted cuts to individual research projects that COOTWH might disagree with, for whatever reason, are not happening. It’s a blanket cut of whatever the amount was, $800 million?, without regard to what research it funds. You don’t understand what endowments are for, why they exist and what they do. Ignorance is leading to fascism. What happened to you, too much DEI?

What law are the colleges and universities operating outside of? Name the statute they violated.

In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.

The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.

If you’re looking for an expert on pile drivers and “Stone Cold Stunners,” Linda McMahon may be the one to call. But when it comes to knowledge of the U.S. education system, it seems abundantly clear she’s lacking in that department.

https://apple.news/AoYvnZXg8QneAQS8hb8wGJQ

And yes, you’re making shit up. Turn off Faux News.

Just because someone agrees that the administration is making reasonable points about funding higher education and research while $40 trillion in debt, does not mean that everything done by the administration is agreed with.

perhaps we should look for other ways to fund universities. In addition to mandating that they spend some of their endowments, Perhaps we should start to tax or charge foreign countries…For the economic benefits they receive for pennies on the dollar. Also, perhaps we should have an additional line on our tax returns, voluntary contribution for university research. There you go. You and Your buddies here and up north can pay as much as you all  want

You still don’t have a clue as to how it all works and the damage being done because COOTWH’s dumb son didn’t get into Harvard or Columbia. I also assume you didn’t see the line of questioning regarding “diversity of thought” and how that shit and what they’re trying to do is straight up Nazi. Send the Secretary of Education some flowers and a box of chocolates and eat a few before you send them. Might make you feel better.

It doesn’t matter. I’ve told you numerous times it’s not the taxpayers responsibility to understand the mechanics of find accounting. SEE!

it’s our money, we are in debt, they have billions, plus the ability to earn massive revenue each year. They are free to do what they want with their curriculum, but they are not entitled to receive taxpayer money and do whatever they want.

Another example of liberal histrionics that will help republicans.

They “don’t do ‘whatever’ they want” with government funding. Again, you have no idea what you’re discussing and you refuse to get “woke.”

Maybe comprehend the Secretary of Education wanting “diversity of thought” in exchange for government funding. Straight up Nazi shit. But I get it, you’re all in.

I said they can do what they want with their curriculum. If you’re gonna quote me, have the decency to get it right.

go scream for Abrego Garcia. How does it feel getting played by trump, genius?

Halifax2TheMax

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

PJ_Soul said:

Just a tid-bit for anyone curious about the ever-expanding list of points that are comparable between the Trump admin and the Nazi regime: Schools were forced to adjust curriculum to conform to Nazi ideology. 

You don’t say? But we were told that it couldn’t happen here?

And for shits and giggles, what kind of curriculum do you think those home schoolers and private schools are going to teach with those public tax dollars?

 To quote you, for shits and giggles, you realize this is completely false, right? More up north misinformation as we cheer on the Oilers!

Harvard is free to set its own curriculum.

 This has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. The difference is, they have to fund it themselves through student tuition, which is the American way. Interesting that the socialists would not understand that. What’s wrong with re-examining how much of your tax dollars, assuming you pay American taxes, go to subsidize billionaire universities, and their foreign students, before we give them your money?

so subsidizing billionaire job creators with tax cuts is bad (it is) but spending billions to subsidize billionaire universities is good, right? It’s very difficult to understand the liberal logic.

I’ve read elsewhere that for every $1 of taxpayer money given to universities, society receives $8 in return. These links partly explain how it works in the real world and not how you think it is or wish it to be. But go ahead and tell us again how universities are ripping us off and should just pay for it themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/03/14/taxing-universities/

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332

https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Incredible-Incomparable-ROI-of-RD_5.15-1.pdf

You might want to think twice (lol, u?) before accusing me of being insane, because if you bothered to read your  Forbes article, there’s a lot agreed on. Example excerpt below.

Of course liberal extremism here misunderstood my point. Unis are free to set their own curriculum, but if they want taxpayer handouts perhaps there should be standards, which could get set by the election winners (so figure out how to do so!) The nazi setting curriculum attack from the person in the socialist nation made a false claim. That was my point

…


” Implicit in the administration’s actions are concerns about bloat and wastage of taxpayer money. It would be naïve to argue that there is none of that. I am biased because I work for a university, but I try and take the other side of the debate and suggest two ways forward.

Targeted cuts

First, the government might want to consider targeted cuts instead of broad-based ones. Cuts can be based on a thoughtful analysis of past results of the research funding and an assessment of the potential for future benefits. I am no medical scientist, but I suspect research in certain areas have more tangible benefits than others. “

Is that what DOGE did, targeted cuts? Is that what COOTWH has done to Harvard and the other universities? You’re making shit up in your head. What organization or household or endeavour is 100% efficient with its resources? Zero. What are the most efficient organizations running at with what % is considered “wasteful” or inefficient spending?

People are free to attend any university they can apply to and be accepted. There are liberal and conservative college campuses across the country. Does Liberty University accept or receive tax payer dollars in any form? Why not cut theirs? For the record, I don’t think you have a clue on how private and public universities are funded, how they’re operated and where the dollars come from and go. If you want to debate types of research projects that are funded, that’s a completely different argument than what your chasing your marbles for.

If you really want to know what university endowments pay for, where tuition dollars are spent, how much comes from where, you can read their annual reports, typically available on line via their website. I suggest you do some research.

Dude, you are so extreme you are accusing me of making stuff up? THE TARGETED CUTS SUGGESTION COMES FROM YOUR FORBES ARTICLE.


It’s not my job to justify where their funding comes from. That’s Harvard‘s job. Which by the way has a long history of violating federal civil rights laws. An organizational felon shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer handouts. 

My job as an American is the point out that we are $40 trillion in debt and it’s not my job to figure out how they pay for their research. That’s their job. handouts to billionaires shouldn’t occur whether it’s to an entrepreneur or whether it’s a university…have some consistency with your freaking policies. 

They want taxpayer handouts, but zero accountability to taxpayers. That’s genius.

and my job is also to point out lies perpetrated by people from socialist nations on this forum. This is not Germany, Harvard is free to set their own curriculum. Once they start accepting taxpayer money, and then decide to operate outside the law is a slippery slope, created by them.Why a billionaire university needs handouts from a country $40 trillion in debt, with zero negotiation, is beyond logic.

Your secretary of education disagrees with you and does fuzzy math. What a screed you posted. You have no clue regarding the level of accountability that colleges and universities provide to account for and receive federal funding. The march toward fascism continues and you’re all in, sopping up the propaganda while remaining clueless. Congratulations. Watch the two embedded twatter links of testimony within the link below.

I’m pointing out to you, if you’ll release your ALL CAPS BUTTON FOR A MOMENT, that targeted cuts to individual research projects that COOTWH might disagree with, for whatever reason, are not happening. It’s a blanket cut of whatever the amount was, $800 million?, without regard to what research it funds. You don’t understand what endowments are for, why they exist and what they do. Ignorance is leading to fascism. What happened to you, too much DEI?

What law are the colleges and universities operating outside of? Name the statute they violated.

In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.

The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.

If you’re looking for an expert on pile drivers and “Stone Cold Stunners,” Linda McMahon may be the one to call. But when it comes to knowledge of the U.S. education system, it seems abundantly clear she’s lacking in that department.

https://apple.news/AoYvnZXg8QneAQS8hb8wGJQ

And yes, you’re making shit up. Turn off Faux News.

Just because someone agrees that the administration is making reasonable points about funding higher education and research while $40 trillion in debt, does not mean that everything done by the administration is agreed with.

perhaps we should look for other ways to fund universities. In addition to mandating that they spend some of their endowments, Perhaps we should start to tax or charge foreign countries…For the economic benefits they receive for pennies on the dollar. Also, perhaps we should have an additional line on our tax returns, voluntary contribution for university research. There you go. You and Your buddies here and up north can pay as much as you all  want

You still don’t have a clue as to how it all works and the damage being done because COOTWH’s dumb son didn’t get into Harvard or Columbia. I also assume you didn’t see the line of questioning regarding “diversity of thought” and how that shit and what they’re trying to do is straight up Nazi. Send the Secretary of Education some flowers and a box of chocolates and eat a few before you send them. Might make you feel better.

It doesn’t matter. I’ve told you numerous times it’s not the taxpayers responsibility to understand the mechanics of find accounting. SEE!

it’s our money, we are in debt, they have billions, plus the ability to earn massive revenue each year. They are free to do what they want with their curriculum, but they are not entitled to receive taxpayer money and do whatever they want.

Another example of liberal histrionics that will help republicans.

They “don’t do ‘whatever’ they want” with government funding. Again, you have no idea what you’re discussing and you refuse to get “woke.”

Maybe comprehend the Secretary of Education wanting “diversity of thought” in exchange for government funding. Straight up Nazi shit. But I get it, you’re all in.

I said they can do what they want with their curriculum. If you’re gonna quote me, have the decency to get it right.

go scream for Abrego Garcia. How does it feel getting played by trump, genius?

You say that but the Secretary of Education, COOTWH Administration and Faux News don’t say that and are pushing for straight up Nazi tactics. And you still believe it’s just a matter of universities spending their endowments without understanding how any of it works. You got brain worms?