down South: USA PhDs on food stamps

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/from_graduate_school_to_welfare

Ms. Bruninga-Matteau does not blame Yavapai College for her situation but rather the "systematic defunding of higher education." In Arizona last year, Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, signed a budget that cut the state's allocation to Yavapai's operating budget from $4.3-million to $900,000, which represented a 7.6 percent reduction in the college's operating budget. The cut led to an 18,000-hour reduction in the use of part-time faculty like Ms. Bruninga-Matteau.

"The media gives us this image that people who are on public assistance are dropouts, on drugs or alcohol, and are irresponsible," she says. "I'm not irresponsible. I'm highly educated. I have a whole lot of skills besides knowing about medieval history, and I've had other jobs. I've never made a lot of money, but I've been able to make enough to live on. Until now."

Nevertheless, the percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010.

During that three-year period, the number of people with master's degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.'s who received assistance rose from 9,776 to 33,655, 

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D - sound familiar?
And the Republicans just filibustered Obama's low-student-loan-interest bill. It would have been funded by closing corporate tax loop-holes.

How out to lunch are the 'pubs on tax? THIS far - see the image.

 

D - tax and spend? What is the problem with that? Beats the heck out of spend but don't tax. Cuz that is GENERATIONAL THEFT. Obama inherited a fiscal mess that was not of his making. Democrats, when left to their own devices, tend to try to balance budgets. Here in Canada, our Liberals do the same.
IF the USA does not increase taxes to reflect the cost of retiring Boomers, then they will lose an increasing amount of their revenue to paying interest to service that debt. Then the Boomers will leave that debt to their children and grand- children. If the present seniors are to be known as "The Great Generation", then Boomers will be known as "The Pathetic Generation". That leaves us with "Tragic"...