32% Tuition Hike Causes Near-Riot at UCLA

It gives me a bad feeling to see pseudo-rioting at my Alma Mater. My daughter still attends there, though this is her last year. I am saddened by this story. :-(


According to the Daily Bruin: A crowd of more than 500 demonstrators rushed Covel Commons on Wednesday to protest a proposed 32 percent student fee increase. They were met by dozens of university police, some of whom were outfitted in riot gear. At one point, protesters broke through police barricades that surrounded the main entrance to Covel. Officers responded to the stampede of students and union workers by extending the metal barricades around the entrance and using nightsticks and Taser guns to force the crowd back.

There were some excellent comments at BreitbartTV.
RW said:
The contradictions of California are ‘coming home to roost’ in the immortal words of Obama’s spiritual mentor.

California has taxed and spent and taxed and spent and regulated the state to fiscal death. Now the rich have fled, manufacturing has fled, companies that need electricity have fled, anyone with assetts has fled.

The remaining tax base can’t support the bloated services the voters have given themselves. These spoiled brats want the belagured taxpayers of California to continue to over subsidize their education, but the money just isn’t there. It’s a zero sum game at this point. If tuition isn’t cut at UC, then welfare will be cut, or section 8 will be cut, or free medical care will be cut.

Matt S. said:
Students are out at protest, but I feel they many do nut understand WHY the public system needs to raise addition revenue. It is because they are broke due to the numerous social programs in the state of California. They should be protesting unsustainable government spending in Sacramento.

Luckily I got out of the CSU system prior to a 25% hike, but unluckily when the job market is flat.

This is just one of the first symptoms of why the welfare state cannot be sustained. I fear more and more for the state of California and the Union.

Mikael said:
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THINGS TO COME. I FEEL BAD FOR THIS KIDS….THEY SHOULD BLAME THEIR GOVERNMENT, PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS FOR SPENDING MONEY THAT IS NOT THEIRS. I CAME TO THIS COUNTRY TO GET AWAY FROM SOCIALISM AND UNFORTUNATELY I CANNOT SEEM TO GET AWAY FROM IT :-(

Common Cents wrote:
Liberalism only works until you run out of other people’s money. California will now slowly circle the drain and go the way of Detriot. Nice job libs.

Via Breitbart TV.