Take California: you're spending about 40K a year to send your kid to one of the UC campuses. 40K = tuition, books, room & board. But your kid spends the first one or two years unable to take the classes he needs because classrooms are overcrowded, classes and depts are being eliminated. Then you get a call that the campus cops have broken his ribs for "violently linking arms". Whose side are you on?
An old HS boyfriend, rocket scientist came by last night for a bridge game. Though he is very conservative economically and an admirerer of Thomas Friedman, he spoke at length in support of OWS and in opposition to the bailout of the German bankers. I was surprised. Both of his kids are currently attending UC campuses.
Joanna
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On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Nicholas Roberts wrote:
> lets not forget Reagan really got his start by smashing hippies in Berkeley
These are very different times. The hippie thing came at the end of a long boom. Wages were rising for decades. Now, everyone's kind of miserable. There's not much of a generation gap, and alienation is a mass phenomenon. The eras just aren't comparable. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk