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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Universities used to be private enterprise only. Only the elite could go to such places. We see how returned vets were treated in an atmosphere of almost exclusively private enterprise after WW1. Many Daddy Warbucks types came out of that but many, many more vets languished in poverty for years. After WW2, a bonafide socialist program, the GI Bill, provided much better treatment for returned vets and ended up being one of the best public investments of all time.
I don't see the private sector ever doing something as effective and far-reaching as the GI Bill.
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Yes, by all means LOOK at the universities.
Look how the cost of education has far exceeded the rate of inflation. They give themselves lavish payraises, and then cry to the government for subsidies.
GI Bill was/ is great.
Look how universities in the 1950s were furnished, and the life-styles of the professors, and compare to today. Everything is much more lavish.
Not to say that all schools follow this pattern--there are some schools that keep prices down, and faculty not overpaid. But the large, "name-brand_ universities have gotten out of hand.