Do you think Paul Bryant Jr., the son of UA's late Hall of Fame football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, cares about middle-class struggles? Heck, no. Do you think he gives it a second thought when the trustees vote for another sizable tuition hike? I sure don't.
In fact, the very day I became aware of the Mark Karlin piece at BuzzFlash/Truthout, my local newspaper carried a story with this headline:
UA System Tuitions to Jump 7.9% to 8.9%
This can go beyond dollars and cents to an insidious form of thought control. I was fired at UAB in May 2008, and evidence in my ongoing First Amendment/discrimination lawsuit clearly shows that I was targeted because I write what could be called a progressive blog. Specifically, I write a blog about the misconduct of certain judges, lawyers, and politicians, and corporate elites don't much like it when their lackeys are exposed. Some of those corporate elites sit on university boards, and that pretty much explains why I no longer work at UAB.
Don't look for corporate universities to become friendly to progressive thought--or middle-class pocketbooks--anytime soon. Writes Mark Karlin:
While other nations, such as India and China, are broadening educational opportunities for their citizens and developing economies and a labor force for the future, the Republican Party and global corporations based in America are attempting to move the US economy backward.
This will result in a caste system that will create not a "free market," but a relatively closed one. Wealth and economic well-being then become not a result of ingenuity, education and entrepreneurialism, but rather of family inheritance.
This is also called a fossilized economy.
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