Think Progress: For five years since the Great Recession, states have drastically cut funding for public universities, with long-lasting consequences for the U.S. economy. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that every state except North Dakota and Wyoming is spending less per student than before the recession. As a result, students are paying much higher tuition, while quality of education has suffered from faculty cuts, closed campuses, eliminated course offerings and shut down educational resources like libraries and computer labs.
This is a simple yet highly illustrative picture of Republican rule. We all know they're anti-science, basically hate public education, and publicly brand anybody who's highly educated as some kind of foreign elite. They've spent the entire Obama presidency getting rid of as many public school teachers as possible. They're happy to see sequestration result in even less education.
Undereducated populations provide the conservative movement with Walmart/drive through/McJob wage slaves and they don't think too critically about the crappy results of Republican party public policy. But they kill the country.
Public education is a vital and indespensible investment in the future competitiveness of the nation and a pillar of upward mobility. It's an investment that pays off many time over. Only people who are not actually interested in the success of the country, or the ideal of the American dream, would cut it to pay for tax cuts for the super-rich and the transnational corporation. Remember that when you vote.
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