Sunday, April 15, 2012

From Prozac Nation To Suicide Nation

California kicks graduate students -- the people who become the scientists, doctors, teachers, programmers, and professionals of tomorrow -- in the teeth:

CSU may pull cash grants to half its grad students

Total savings: a measly $90 million.

Why? So that Wall Street thieves can steal trillion dollar bailouts and warlords can wallow in trillion dollar taxpayer-funded boondoggles against nonexistent enemies.

Since the 1990s, we've gone from Prozac Nation to Suicide Nation, where no civic institution is left standing and no carotid artery is left unsliced.

On the bright side, by forcing those professionals of the future to take on Federal loans at 6% rates of interest, they're creating a vast pool of immiserated debt-serfs with literally nothing to lose but their debt-chains.

Dear CSU graduate students: as a fellow grad student in the Illinois state system, please don't blame yourselves for this insanity. You and me and all other Americans, we've got to change this.

Fight. Think. Write. Live.

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