This is several months old, but it is fantastic. How can anyone possibly oppose college tuition subsidies? Please listen and learn. Like most government programs, government tuition subsidies punish exactly the people they presume to help.

Yale University

1810-1852 tuition = $33/year or 1.65 ounces of gold
1918 tuition = $160/year (dollars were inflated during WWI) = 8.4 ounces of gold = 32 days of manual labor
2009 tuition = $36,500/year or about 33 ounces of gold = 550 days of manual labor

This was caused not by freedom or greed. It was caused by reckless government subsidies.

Department of Education = Drain on resources. It’s a monstrosity which should be abolished. Who’s with me?

I’m a big fan of Lew Rockwell podcasts. I often listen to them while preparing breakfast. These two interviews both touch on what’s a new idea to me: college as government intervention – guaranteeing loans, subsidizing student lending, eliminating free market disciplines on Universities. Suddenly I see in a new light the extravagant cost of tuition, the legions of people devoting thousands of hours to subject which they themselves do not care about.

Peter Schiff: You’re Better Off as a Renter. March 23, 2009.
Peter Schiff talks about the college in the last quarter of the interview, from 11:30 onward.

Gerald Celente: The Fed Has Wounded You. April 26, 2009.
Gerald Celente only touches on it briefly in this great interview, from 9:45 to 12:30.

This is an inspirational story about one College’s defiance of invasive, misguided federal policies.

“Hillsdale’s modern rise to prominence occurred in the 1970s. On the pretext that some of its students were receiving federal loans, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare attempted to interfere with the College’s internal affairs, including a demand that Hillsdale begin counting its students by race [emphasis added].”

Hillsdale College didn’t need race-related “help” from the feds because “it was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, religion or sex, and became an early force for the abolition of slavery. It was also only the second college in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.”

“Hillsdale’s trustees responded with two toughly worded resolutions: One, the College would continue its policy of non-discrimination. Two, ‘with the help of God,’ it would ‘resist, by all legal means, any encroachments on its independence.’

Following almost a decade of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court decided against Hillsdale in 1984. By this time, the College had announced that rather than complying with unconstitutional federal regulation, it would instruct its students that they could no longer bring federal taxpayer money to Hillsdale. Instead, the College would replace that aid with private contributions.” (Read more from hillsdale.edu)

“We need to enroll more children and we need to start at an even earlier age.” ~ Emperor Obama

67% of Americans agree, which is what I’m trying to change here on LostRepublic.us . Please watch:

Government: We screwed up Headstart and we screwed up K-12, but give us your money and give us control of your four-year-olds, because this time we’ll get it right. We promise.