The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134194   Message #3050830
Posted By: Teribus
11-Dec-10 - 05:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ignorant young people
Subject: RE: BS: Ignorant young people
1. "What needs to be discussed is not the excessive behaviour of a few angry young people who instinctively lash out at various symbols of authority when an irresponsible government robs the general public blind."

The irresponsible Government who robbed the general public blind was voted out of office last May, leaving the present Government to sort out the mess that ZANULiebour "Socialists" left the country in.

2. "This huge raise in tuition fees is outrageous."

Tuition fees were introduced by the last Government in the "Glorious Year of 1997" Remember "Education, edgeoohcashun, edukayshun". Then the same crowd doubled the fees in 2004, and then got one mendacious, self-serving, "brown hatter" Peter Mandelson to get another mendacious, self-serving, "brown hatter" Lord John Browne to look into tuition fees and low and behold they needed to be tripled. Mind you taking a look at costs, services and overheads over the last 13 years by what factor have they all increased, I doubt if any have actually gone down apart from fees paid to performers in "Folk Clubs".

3. "I think the ordinary public are being made to pay for massive irresponsibility in high places and they're being made to pay bills that THEY DID NOT GENERATE."

That has always been the case and applies to every single taxpayer rich and poor since taxes were introduced. The introduction of tuition fees was supposed to be a means by which those who benefitted directly paid towards it, which oddly enough seems quite fair to me. And if they are going to pay towards it then the amount they pay should reflect true costs otherwise the "ordinary public" the author of the quote above seems to be so concerned about have to pay even more.

4. "The bills were generated, I think, by fraudulent banking practices by the most wealthy elements in society."

Huh?? What on earth has how banks conduct their business got to do with tuition fees? As far as I can see they are completely divorced, one having nothing whatsoever to do with the other.