"I tell people, I am a conservative, I just want things to be like they where in the 50s in the US... when I started in my first year, I paid 5500 in tuition, after the fee hikes (average of 81%) it will be 20 000 per year for my course.. from 5000 to 20000 in 4 years.."
the interview/video guy asks
"people say this will effectively resegregate the university, ethinic minorities will not be able to afford to study"
student says "actually, I've notice most the international students (full fees, no instate tuition), thats really changing"
and I think, he has nailed it
the owning class, the capitalists, industrialists, corporate planners, dont give a fuck about the US middle class, the US mass consumer society anymore, because of India, China, Brazil, Russia and the so called "emerging middle class" around the world.
The international students coming to Cal, many will be the elites in those countries, replicating a Californian ideology, a globalized transnational capitalism of interlocking directorships, shareholdings, trading and production systems, bound by shared educational experiences
The "economic crisis" in Europe and the US is about structural adjustment for this reality... is smashing US/European consumers down closer to the BRIC countries spectrum of middle classes (upper, middle, lower)
the US worker lost his/her place as richest and best worker in the world quite some time ago, 1971? Nixon Shock? but, now 30 years later, the US consumer, "the engine of the world economy" is being offshored, outsourced
and UCB, John Yoo University, is at the heart of this transnational capitalist enterprise
how, after all, can you have capitalism in only one country ?
-- Nicholas Roberts US 510-684-8264 http://Permaculture.TV http://permaculture.coop