Inflation has been almost non-existent during the Obama years, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at rising college tuition statewide, especially in California. In high school, students are told that college is mandatory to have a fruitful life and to live in the elusive middle class, and are told to go into debt to get that degree (more like economic slavery) with no collateral. Most college professors and administrators are in the top 2%, not the top 1%, but way ahead of what their students should expect to be. Let’s talk, because the academic bubble is still being built and is about to burst: things have gotten out of hand.

There was a rather concerning segment on ABC News Affiliate in Los Angeles (Eyewitness News 7) recently titled: “CSU Trustees Vote to Raise Tuition by 5% Amid Protest From Students” on March 22, 2017.

First, I would like to point out that education has not improved in the California State University System, by all measures and accounts it has gotten worse. Students with degrees are less valued in the marketplace as employers realize their education isn’t that great and those degrees don’t predict that students will be productive employees or even have a clue what they’re doing.

Most professors, especially tenured professors, don’t teach much in the classroom as they spend a lot of time on sabbaticals and now have graduate students lecturing. Rising college costs have to do with legacy costs (pensions) and the rise of Cadillac-style health care programs for staff and faculty. While their pension fund isn’t as bad as the severely underfunded University of California System, it’s not breaking any records either – this Trump Bump in the stock market recently has saved their butt (temporarily) if you want. know the certain skinny on that.

Time to face facts: CSU (California State University) system is broken, academia is broken, shut down the damn colleges that grant degrees in Gender Studies, Sustainability, Ethnic Equality, LBGT Studies – those kids are not going to have job paid forever. of those student loans – the academy is drugged by any observable rational standard – worthless – totally worthless surviving on Federal Research Grants and Taxpayers and tuition extortion, subsidies and socialist agendas. Some in our online think tank, to put it bluntly, let’s say; “To hell with all that, now it’s just BS,” and I think these think tank members are dead right.

Why the 5% increase in tuition when enrollment is at an all time high? Why the increase in tuition without greater benefits? The titles are not worth more than last year, in fact they are worth less now. The California State University System is out of control just like the University of California System, and academia across the country has $1.4 trillion in student loan debt, 45% of those loans have never made a single payment or are 90-days past due. The academic industrial complex is a giant bubble waiting to burst, and what does the CSU system do? Raise tuition? Oh well, that’s going to help a lot, a lot… NO!