[ From : Chapter 4 of Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision by George Lakoff ]
 [To conservatives, ] Discipline:  Self-control  is  an  essential  quality.  Moral  authority  requires  internal discipline, which is learned  through punishment when one does wrong. The  failure of an authority to punish for wrongdoing is a moral failure.
There  are  political  consequences  of  such  a  view.  Getting  something  one  hasn't
earned weakens one's discipline and hence one's capacity  to be moral. Thus,  if you are
not  prosperous,  you  are  not  disciplined  enough  to  be  prosperous  and  therefore deserve your  poverty.  Social  programs, which  give  people  things  they  haven't  earned,  lessen people's  incentive  to be disciplined and, hence,  to be moral. Social programs  thus serve immorality and should be abandoned.

Economics, Demography and the Future of Higher Education Policy

 

About two-thirds of this growth in college-age young people will be concentrated in California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Texas (see Table 3). These five states could experience an increase of 2.9 million youth by 2015.
Except for Georgia, these are also the states with the highest proportion of immigrants and the greatest burgeoning of the Hispanic population. Meanwhile, the potential student population is projected to decline in 13 states in the north
central and northeast regions of the country. Most youth attend college in their home state; individual governors will have to plan for very different higher education scenarios.