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I was reading an article about how at one particular college, from 1990 to 2022 the number of tenured faculty decreased.\u00a0 But during that same period the administrative staff increased 500%.<\/a>\u00a0 So, let\u2019s say there were a thousand administrators at the college in 1990.\u00a0 That would mean that there were six thousand in 2022.\u00a0 Think about that.\u00a0 They must have had to build out the campus enormously just to provide desk space for that many new people.\u00a0 And try to imagine how these non-teaching employees made learning better at this college.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this is absurd.\u00a0 During those thirty-two years automation has made all of these \u201cadministrators\u201d worse than useless.\u00a0 Whate they really are is a drain on society.\u00a0 All they do is attach more mouths to the government trough that pays for all those enormous loans that colleges manufacture as their primary product.\u00a0 So, most of the increase in college costs over the last thirty years has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of educating college students.\u00a0 Certainly since 2020 a new component of this scam is the DEI infrastructure.\u00a0 Whole wings of college buildings must be crammed with bureaucratic activists writing propaganda papers and issuing edicts to force ever more oppressive requirements on students and teachers to pay homage to the holy trinity of diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n

What is wrong with this picture?<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s two-fold.\u00a0 Most importantly, it\u2019s eveil.\u00a0 It\u2019s harmful, toxic and stupid.\u00a0 We\u2019re damaging the students who are being propagandized with this stuff and we\u2019re warping society with these lies.<\/p>\n

But in the second place, we can\u2019t afford this waste.\u00a0 America is the most affluent society that has ever existed on the face of the Earth.\u00a0 But we\u2019ve drained the well dry.\u00a0 Everywhere you look people are drowning in debt and can\u2019t pay their bills.\u00a0 And worst of all are all the college students and graduates staring at six figure student loan debt.\u00a0 And a lot of them can\u2019t find any jobs better than Starbuck\u2019s barista and will have to move back into mom\u2019s basement because rent just doubled.<\/p>\n

And colleges aren\u2019t the only bureaucracies staggering under the weight of administration inflation.\u00a0 Federal, state, municipal and local bureaucracies are full of libraries, schools and other offices that have grown their own bureaucracies where expansion is a constant state and no one ever gets laid off.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have grown the bureaucracies with single-minded intent.\u00a0 Every one of those administrators or whatever they call these civil servants vote Democrat, every time they can.\u00a0 It\u2019s not even a question.<\/p>\n

Every red state governor should make it his highest priority to eliminate all of the DEI and other leftist headcount in all government agencies and especially in state colleges.\u00a0 But if Trump gets back in the White House his first priority should be to drain the swamp.\u00a0 And whereas the most strategic departments to empty out must be the Justice Department, FBI and CIA, nevertheless, right afterwards it behooves him to make a general purge of all the agencies that perform affirmative action and all the other DEI related damage.\u00a0 And then if I were he, I\u2019d write executive orders that would mandate colleges to bring their finances in line with a more reasonable overhead.\u00a0 No more $50,000 or $100,000 a year tuition bills.\u00a0 Tell them the government can only afford $10,000 a year.\u00a0 I\u2019ll bet there\u2019ll be a whole lot of Associate Directors of DEI slinging coffee at Starbuck\u2019s that next year.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s my idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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