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State government, college budget cuts, and stupidity that follows

I guess this is my first school rant. So remember how I'm in college?

My college (University of New Orleans) has been declining in quality since about 2008, when Bobby Jindal became our state governor (and when Barack Osama became our president). From what I've seen, UNO has lost about $30mil in its budget since 2008-2009. And guess what happens because of this?

They've had to cut out a lot of our classes. If they didn't remove certain classes for public health, I could've changed my major from psychology to public health. Now the nearest good college that has these classes is LSU, which, in my opinion, is overrated/oversized, especially overrated for its sports teams.

If Bobby fucking Jindal costs us any more budget cuts, I might not even be able to stay in UNO. And I've been going to UNO on a full-paid scholarship, so having to transfer colleges would be an economic pain in the ass.

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Sucks man. Any particular reason why the budget has been declining?
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Welcome to America, the country that doesn't give a shit about education yet likes to brag about it.(though the US Government has successfully made $51 billion off of student loans. Most likely to go to some political bastard's pig barrel while the rest get invested into failing programs and dead-end commissions. It sure produces lots of confidence!)

I honestly think the only reason some of these American colleges are ranked high is due to how good they were in previous years, when it was actually cheap to go to a good college. You know, with the brain drain of Europe in the late 20th century and the conditions of the rest of the world vs the USA. Now, however, things have changed.(And perhaps the bias of those doing the rating, plus most likely slightly falsified information help boost American schools.)

Did you know Europeans pay a massive sum less in tuition for college, and most of these schools are ranked in the top 100?.
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(05-19-2013 03:29 AM)Trapacity Wrote:  Sucks man. Any particular reason why the budget has been declining?

Bobby Jindal and his horrible education decisions...
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