Don’t get this. Berkely? Ah, this is going to take too much effort. You can be a liberal pos, destroying property, cause mayhem and get paid, but get no punishment? Go figure. I could go on and on, but it’ll just infuriate me, and i don’t need that.
Roger
7 years ago
We exercise our right to speak out by voting for Congress members who will not fund oppressive groups, including schools. We shouldn’t interfere with any groups right to speak out, whether we agree with them or not. But we shouldn’t support them financially with tax dollars that should be spent to benefit all American citizens. And no group should interfere with anyone else’s right to speak out. Federal funding of such oppressive groups IS GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE with our First Amendment Right.
JACKR
7 years ago
Why should universities get ANY federal funding?
Blpo
7 years ago
No college should get Federal Funding. Control it with the students pocket book. Also, parents are not responsible for their young adults college education. In my 65 years, I’ve discovered if you pay for it yourself you value it more. I know this will not be a popular opinion. College Is not for everyone.
Joseph Kieszniski
7 years ago
you have to deney both, not jut one.
Tommy Molnar
7 years ago
If I were starting over as a parent (our kids are lonnnng gone and doing well) I would rather encourage my children to learn a good paying trade and bypass college where kids go to end up being good leftist, socialist Democrat voters. When kids are kids, they at some point automatically think they know all there is to know about all there is to know. If they go to college they are agog at what their “professors” are telling them, especially if it runs in the face of what their parents have been telling them. Even today, I have a childhood friend who attended college and is still a devout leftist.
Vintage Geek
7 years ago
Government should get out of the subsidy business. This is how government grows. Programs expand beyond their intended purpose. Special interests create “politicians”! Google “Rural Electrification Act” or check Wikipedia. Why was it not shut down after power distribution was done? Don’t get me started! Do we really need the USPS? With email, Fedex and UPS, I think not. Phase it out!
Susan Nordstrom
7 years ago
College is no longer preparing students for anything. The internet can teach us anything we want to learn. The sheer cost of college is criminal and most professors , who have never worked a job, are overpaid and have no idea what reality in the world is for someone who wants to support themselves and a family.
Donald Mccormick
7 years ago
TO deny one side or the other of their of a talk telling their side of an issue is like trying to but pig and NOT KNOWING what might be WRONG with that pig or a house and NOT be able to even see the house until you decide to give money to actually buy the house.
You just have to try it find out how BAD it might be OR deny buying that pig or house and look else where for what you want.
That is what you have to look for without getting BOTH sides of any argument because you have to be able to get BOTH PRO and CONS of an argument before you decide what you are going to do or act with the information you get by hearing both sides of a speech or talk.
Salvatore Blanco
7 years ago
It’s unfortunate but our teachers and professors have been turned into communist’s and if we do nothing about it our freedom is at risk.
Tom
7 years ago
Most of today’s colleges are nothing more than Marxist indoctrination centers. And the education you get is dumbed down and mostly useless.
Kilemal
7 years ago
It is impossible not to notice that the sinistral elements in the U.S. are like the National Socialist German Worker’s Party in Munich during the 1930s. Any posit opposing their own is met with infiltration, violent retaliation and dishonest, perfervid denigration, all fostered by a treacherous, perfidious, communist mainstream media posing as Polly-pure-heart “free press” These thugs hide behind First Amendment rights and are supported by the likes of former nazi george soros et alia. Saul alinsky preaches that existing legal canon must be employed against the reasonable government elected by the people to garner advantage and control over those same populations. All this will continue until globalist new world order apparachiks hiding in government bureaucracys are rooted out and thoroughly discredited. Unfortunately, Millenials will never let this happen. “But Mommy and Daddy, the government is my only protection. Waa, waa, waa!” Excuse me but in the vernacular, gfys!
Dgh
7 years ago
Blpo and Roger have covered the points I’m really concerned about. Just a further detail : taxes are collected by means of a threat of force, which is how all laws are carried out. Obtaining anything by such threat constitutes the criminal act of extortion. So for the time being, government is funded through extortion, since no one has come up with a better method. – It shouldn’t be left to the whims of anyone, politicians or citizens, but how to make it dependable without some procedure for insuring that outcome, is very problematic. – All of which means that we’re stuck with it for now, but the moral issue means it should be kept to an absolute minimum, rather than being used to dump taxpayer money on every possible issue, including, without being limited to, education.
zenith47
7 years ago
I agree that the Federal Government has no business funding colleges and universities at all. That said, I do believe that individual states should help their colleges and universities if their voters choose to do so. The same thing for providing student loans and grants.
Susan Winters
7 years ago
Meant to hit YES on Poll!
Mike
7 years ago
Tax money is not for funding any college. Government support of colleges is most of the reason we have a poll like this.
Mary Lynn Smith
7 years ago
The best colleges in the country are the ones who voluntarily refuse ANY government funding. e.g. Hillsdale, Wyoming Catholic College etc. There are a few. Funding comes with ‘strings attached’.
americanpatriot
7 years ago
The problem with this question is that someone apparently thought it needed to be asked in the first place. To start with, public school funding should be cut in half, period. Give them a million dollars and they will spend two. Next, be it a sanctuary city or a public school, regardless of level, if they do not apply and enforce either federal law(s) or Constitutional rights, they MUST be cut off from federal (WTP tax) funds. If the governing laws are not written that way, then they MUST be rewritten to make compliance MANDATORY. It’s time our elected officials stop pussy-footing around!
Veteran
7 years ago
Not only should they be denied federal funding but they should also lose their accreditation as a college. Free speech is necessary for a free exchange of ideas and science; if they don’t want to participate let them pack up and let them migrate to a communist/fascist country of their choice!
The ugly truth
7 years ago
Us, the taxpayers, are now paying for socialist propaganda to be drilled into the heads of naïve youngsters. This whole idea needs to be stopped, there shouldn’t even be a discussion on whether to withhold funding, there shouldn’t have been taxpayer funding for colleges in the first place.
Tony Green
7 years ago
Funding needs to stop right now! Why are we funding colleges when the professors are stating the United States is evil, all whites should be killed etc? What in the hell is going on? Why does the do nothing Congress sit back and let this happen? Do-Nothing! Guess I just answered my own question!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob
7 years ago
It is about time the government takes action in defense of our Constitution. Universities & college have been taken over by the liberal left which is trying to destroy our country. The liberal left uses every thing in their power (legal or not) why should we not use legal means to rein them in.
Fred
7 years ago
Not only should colleges that don’t allow free speech from conservatives be denied federal funding but all that overcharge students (families) with ridiculous levels of tuition! When college officials and their associated semi-professional sports franchise coaches are making beyond 6 figures, then the institution is no longer about learning and only about the money! Cap spending on high priced administration and sports programs and make colleges and universities about learning. If a college doesn’t offer fair and balanced instruction on political/cultural issues, then it should not be allowed students with federally backed students loans, either.
DocHD
7 years ago
Blpo you nailed it!! But I’m not surprised, we are just scratching the surface. With libs in charge for so many years and libs embedded in government (read bureaucrats), I’m sure tax payer money is supporting lots more unamerican activity.
Martin Steed
7 years ago
I think we should just stop ALL funding to colleges and universities. Further, I think the Federal Government should do a 10 year moratorium on all grants for any purpose. We might just discover that all the entities currently sucking at the government teat can make it on their own, receiving donations from private sources. Those that cannot probably don’t deserve to be funded.
Kalli
7 years ago
Federal funding for these institutions denying free speech should not only be stopped, these institutions should be shut down. This is America where free speech is the First Amendment not some third world nation!
Timothy
7 years ago
College is no longer an institution of higher learning , IT IS AN INDOCTRINATION CENTER !!! The “students” don’t learn they are brain washed into anti American ways of thinking !!!
Melva
7 years ago
I don’t think any college should have taxpayer funding just because it calls itself a college. From what I’ve been seeing the colleges are much more financially stable than our government. I couldn’t believe the $$ these colleges make from their sports programs. OMG! I do believe the college programs for our vets should stay intack but that’s about it. And right now, I think any college that does not honor our constitution and bill of rights should be closed down. Start teaching our kids to be responsible, mature citizens instead of these phony snowflakes that can’t wipe their own noses. And quit hiring these guys like Bill Ayers and these other nut cases to teach them. I have believed for years that our education system is responsible for the decline of patriotism in our young people so if they can’t be part of what strengthens this great nation and our young people, then we have no use for them. And quit giving them tax payer funding. And quit giving free college educations to illegals while America citizens can’t afford the price of an education. Sounds counter intelligent to me. Educating the illegals so they can try to take this country away from the people who were born here and who love it. The attitude of these illegals that I hear on TV disgusts me. Completely opened my eyes from being sympathetic to them to now not willing to let my compassion and understanding be fooled again. So if a college cannot and will not allow free speech to conservatives and liberals alike, I say we have much better things to do with our tax payer dollars. Maybe even pay down our national debt??
John Kraus
7 years ago
Hillsdale College is the only education institution that does not, and never has, accepted federal $’s. Why should ANY college be given federal $’s, since that money always comes with conditions attached.
Darla
7 years ago
Khruschev once said he would bury our country by getting to the teacher’s colleges and indoctrinating them. Unfortunately this has been happening and now our educational system in this country is no longer the wonderful profession that once held our admiration. Even the educators themselves, for the most part, are woefully ignorant of our history and certainly are not passing it on to our future generations. Today’s parents need to be extremely careful in helping their child choose a place to be educated or what started out as a good kid will come home as a rebellious, uninformed and ignorant citizen not capable of helping run this country or even holding a job! There are a few good schools left. Hillsdale College for example, where they will NOT accept any government funding at all! Yes, I say pull the plug on funding places that spit in our face by refusing to teach these kids to hear ALL sides of an argument and THEN decide which view is correct, rather than drowning out dissension with riots and racket.
Dennis Richardson
7 years ago
My daughters worked part time throughout their college years. They receive small scholarships but primarily paid their own way. I provided vehicles, phones, health insurance and housing. Both did junior college while living at home. Then went on to universities for the experience. Both graduated Dean’s list and now have good solid jobs. Many of their classmates went to big schools and were back at home with in 6 months. Younger daughter had six (diverse) classmates who got full rides to the school she went to. None even made Christmas. I hardily agree that not everyone is for college but the business of colleges will never agree.
Mary
7 years ago
the government’s purpose is not to subsidize education, a state’s building projects, memorials, stadiums, etc. If your city or state can’t afford it don’t build it. I agree college is not for everyone, One son attended trade school the other is a junior in a small catholic college, which is not as Catholic as I’d like it to be. If you feel you child is being brainwashed, then you as a parent need to educate your child about politics/religion and the real world. Too many let the schools parent and you wonder why there are so many snowflakes!
Warren
7 years ago
Our federal government is more than $20T in debt. Neither colleges or nor cities (especially sanctuary ones) should be receiving any federal funds. That is not the role of the federal government. Nowhere in the Constitution does it call for financial support of education or cities by the federal government.
Carlo
7 years ago
Alumni who agree should stop sending dollars and their children to these colleges as well.
Patriot
7 years ago
Why don’t we get rid of the people in Universities who won’t allow free speech? Who is hiring them and why? Taking away funding will just incite more anarchy.
E fletcher
7 years ago
Yes. They are teaching anti-Americanism. If they cannot support or believe in our country and support our democracy and president, explain to me why should government funds support them? Now they have free speech zones!!!!! Those liberal professors and administrators are aiding and abetting the deep state. That is treason. Cut ALL funds. If these students believe in that crap, let them pay their oun way . Our universtiies are not respected as higher institutions of learning. They are institutions of indoctrination.
Lamar
7 years ago
No college should received federal funding. They should all be forced to operate as business for profit. When the president of the board of directors can vote himself a half million dollar annual paycheck, they don’t need my tax money. Competition and independence will make for a better education.
Patriot
6 years ago
Yes and so all states that allow the restriction of free speech and goes against the Constitution of the United States.
Scott E.
6 years ago
Free speech is a fundamental right. Most colleges today have liberal professors, instructors, and administrators. Withholding funds from students hurts the students the most. Free speech should be permitted on campus, this is how ideas are exchanged. If conservative students are being attacked when speaking, this should be dealt with through the courts.
Don’t get this. Berkely? Ah, this is going to take too much effort. You can be a liberal pos, destroying property, cause mayhem and get paid, but get no punishment? Go figure. I could go on and on, but it’ll just infuriate me, and i don’t need that.
We exercise our right to speak out by voting for Congress members who will not fund oppressive groups, including schools. We shouldn’t interfere with any groups right to speak out, whether we agree with them or not. But we shouldn’t support them financially with tax dollars that should be spent to benefit all American citizens. And no group should interfere with anyone else’s right to speak out. Federal funding of such oppressive groups IS GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE with our First Amendment Right.
Why should universities get ANY federal funding?
No college should get Federal Funding. Control it with the students pocket book. Also, parents are not responsible for their young adults college education. In my 65 years, I’ve discovered if you pay for it yourself you value it more. I know this will not be a popular opinion. College Is not for everyone.
you have to deney both, not jut one.
If I were starting over as a parent (our kids are lonnnng gone and doing well) I would rather encourage my children to learn a good paying trade and bypass college where kids go to end up being good leftist, socialist Democrat voters. When kids are kids, they at some point automatically think they know all there is to know about all there is to know. If they go to college they are agog at what their “professors” are telling them, especially if it runs in the face of what their parents have been telling them. Even today, I have a childhood friend who attended college and is still a devout leftist.
Government should get out of the subsidy business. This is how government grows. Programs expand beyond their intended purpose. Special interests create “politicians”! Google “Rural Electrification Act” or check Wikipedia. Why was it not shut down after power distribution was done? Don’t get me started! Do we really need the USPS? With email, Fedex and UPS, I think not. Phase it out!
College is no longer preparing students for anything. The internet can teach us anything we want to learn. The sheer cost of college is criminal and most professors , who have never worked a job, are overpaid and have no idea what reality in the world is for someone who wants to support themselves and a family.
TO deny one side or the other of their of a talk telling their side of an issue is like trying to but pig and NOT KNOWING what might be WRONG with that pig or a house and NOT be able to even see the house until you decide to give money to actually buy the house.
You just have to try it find out how BAD it might be OR deny buying that pig or house and look else where for what you want.
That is what you have to look for without getting BOTH sides of any argument because you have to be able to get BOTH PRO and CONS of an argument before you decide what you are going to do or act with the information you get by hearing both sides of a speech or talk.
It’s unfortunate but our teachers and professors have been turned into communist’s and if we do nothing about it our freedom is at risk.
Most of today’s colleges are nothing more than Marxist indoctrination centers. And the education you get is dumbed down and mostly useless.
It is impossible not to notice that the sinistral elements in the U.S. are like the National Socialist German Worker’s Party in Munich during the 1930s. Any posit opposing their own is met with infiltration, violent retaliation and dishonest, perfervid denigration, all fostered by a treacherous, perfidious, communist mainstream media posing as Polly-pure-heart “free press” These thugs hide behind First Amendment rights and are supported by the likes of former nazi george soros et alia. Saul alinsky preaches that existing legal canon must be employed against the reasonable government elected by the people to garner advantage and control over those same populations. All this will continue until globalist new world order apparachiks hiding in government bureaucracys are rooted out and thoroughly discredited. Unfortunately, Millenials will never let this happen. “But Mommy and Daddy, the government is my only protection. Waa, waa, waa!” Excuse me but in the vernacular, gfys!
Blpo and Roger have covered the points I’m really concerned about. Just a further detail : taxes are collected by means of a threat of force, which is how all laws are carried out. Obtaining anything by such threat constitutes the criminal act of extortion. So for the time being, government is funded through extortion, since no one has come up with a better method. – It shouldn’t be left to the whims of anyone, politicians or citizens, but how to make it dependable without some procedure for insuring that outcome, is very problematic. – All of which means that we’re stuck with it for now, but the moral issue means it should be kept to an absolute minimum, rather than being used to dump taxpayer money on every possible issue, including, without being limited to, education.
I agree that the Federal Government has no business funding colleges and universities at all. That said, I do believe that individual states should help their colleges and universities if their voters choose to do so. The same thing for providing student loans and grants.
Meant to hit YES on Poll!
Tax money is not for funding any college. Government support of colleges is most of the reason we have a poll like this.
The best colleges in the country are the ones who voluntarily refuse ANY government funding. e.g. Hillsdale, Wyoming Catholic College etc. There are a few. Funding comes with ‘strings attached’.
The problem with this question is that someone apparently thought it needed to be asked in the first place. To start with, public school funding should be cut in half, period. Give them a million dollars and they will spend two. Next, be it a sanctuary city or a public school, regardless of level, if they do not apply and enforce either federal law(s) or Constitutional rights, they MUST be cut off from federal (WTP tax) funds. If the governing laws are not written that way, then they MUST be rewritten to make compliance MANDATORY. It’s time our elected officials stop pussy-footing around!
Not only should they be denied federal funding but they should also lose their accreditation as a college. Free speech is necessary for a free exchange of ideas and science; if they don’t want to participate let them pack up and let them migrate to a communist/fascist country of their choice!
Us, the taxpayers, are now paying for socialist propaganda to be drilled into the heads of naïve youngsters. This whole idea needs to be stopped, there shouldn’t even be a discussion on whether to withhold funding, there shouldn’t have been taxpayer funding for colleges in the first place.
Funding needs to stop right now! Why are we funding colleges when the professors are stating the United States is evil, all whites should be killed etc? What in the hell is going on? Why does the do nothing Congress sit back and let this happen? Do-Nothing! Guess I just answered my own question!!!!!!!!!!!
It is about time the government takes action in defense of our Constitution. Universities & college have been taken over by the liberal left which is trying to destroy our country. The liberal left uses every thing in their power (legal or not) why should we not use legal means to rein them in.
Not only should colleges that don’t allow free speech from conservatives be denied federal funding but all that overcharge students (families) with ridiculous levels of tuition! When college officials and their associated semi-professional sports franchise coaches are making beyond 6 figures, then the institution is no longer about learning and only about the money! Cap spending on high priced administration and sports programs and make colleges and universities about learning. If a college doesn’t offer fair and balanced instruction on political/cultural issues, then it should not be allowed students with federally backed students loans, either.
Blpo you nailed it!! But I’m not surprised, we are just scratching the surface. With libs in charge for so many years and libs embedded in government (read bureaucrats), I’m sure tax payer money is supporting lots more unamerican activity.
I think we should just stop ALL funding to colleges and universities. Further, I think the Federal Government should do a 10 year moratorium on all grants for any purpose. We might just discover that all the entities currently sucking at the government teat can make it on their own, receiving donations from private sources. Those that cannot probably don’t deserve to be funded.
Federal funding for these institutions denying free speech should not only be stopped, these institutions should be shut down. This is America where free speech is the First Amendment not some third world nation!
College is no longer an institution of higher learning , IT IS AN INDOCTRINATION CENTER !!! The “students” don’t learn they are brain washed into anti American ways of thinking !!!
I don’t think any college should have taxpayer funding just because it calls itself a college. From what I’ve been seeing the colleges are much more financially stable than our government. I couldn’t believe the $$ these colleges make from their sports programs. OMG! I do believe the college programs for our vets should stay intack but that’s about it. And right now, I think any college that does not honor our constitution and bill of rights should be closed down. Start teaching our kids to be responsible, mature citizens instead of these phony snowflakes that can’t wipe their own noses. And quit hiring these guys like Bill Ayers and these other nut cases to teach them. I have believed for years that our education system is responsible for the decline of patriotism in our young people so if they can’t be part of what strengthens this great nation and our young people, then we have no use for them. And quit giving them tax payer funding. And quit giving free college educations to illegals while America citizens can’t afford the price of an education. Sounds counter intelligent to me. Educating the illegals so they can try to take this country away from the people who were born here and who love it. The attitude of these illegals that I hear on TV disgusts me. Completely opened my eyes from being sympathetic to them to now not willing to let my compassion and understanding be fooled again. So if a college cannot and will not allow free speech to conservatives and liberals alike, I say we have much better things to do with our tax payer dollars. Maybe even pay down our national debt??
Hillsdale College is the only education institution that does not, and never has, accepted federal $’s. Why should ANY college be given federal $’s, since that money always comes with conditions attached.
Khruschev once said he would bury our country by getting to the teacher’s colleges and indoctrinating them. Unfortunately this has been happening and now our educational system in this country is no longer the wonderful profession that once held our admiration. Even the educators themselves, for the most part, are woefully ignorant of our history and certainly are not passing it on to our future generations. Today’s parents need to be extremely careful in helping their child choose a place to be educated or what started out as a good kid will come home as a rebellious, uninformed and ignorant citizen not capable of helping run this country or even holding a job! There are a few good schools left. Hillsdale College for example, where they will NOT accept any government funding at all! Yes, I say pull the plug on funding places that spit in our face by refusing to teach these kids to hear ALL sides of an argument and THEN decide which view is correct, rather than drowning out dissension with riots and racket.
My daughters worked part time throughout their college years. They receive small scholarships but primarily paid their own way. I provided vehicles, phones, health insurance and housing. Both did junior college while living at home. Then went on to universities for the experience. Both graduated Dean’s list and now have good solid jobs. Many of their classmates went to big schools and were back at home with in 6 months. Younger daughter had six (diverse) classmates who got full rides to the school she went to. None even made Christmas. I hardily agree that not everyone is for college but the business of colleges will never agree.
the government’s purpose is not to subsidize education, a state’s building projects, memorials, stadiums, etc. If your city or state can’t afford it don’t build it. I agree college is not for everyone, One son attended trade school the other is a junior in a small catholic college, which is not as Catholic as I’d like it to be. If you feel you child is being brainwashed, then you as a parent need to educate your child about politics/religion and the real world. Too many let the schools parent and you wonder why there are so many snowflakes!
Our federal government is more than $20T in debt. Neither colleges or nor cities (especially sanctuary ones) should be receiving any federal funds. That is not the role of the federal government. Nowhere in the Constitution does it call for financial support of education or cities by the federal government.
Alumni who agree should stop sending dollars and their children to these colleges as well.
Why don’t we get rid of the people in Universities who won’t allow free speech? Who is hiring them and why? Taking away funding will just incite more anarchy.
Yes. They are teaching anti-Americanism. If they cannot support or believe in our country and support our democracy and president, explain to me why should government funds support them? Now they have free speech zones!!!!! Those liberal professors and administrators are aiding and abetting the deep state. That is treason. Cut ALL funds. If these students believe in that crap, let them pay their oun way . Our universtiies are not respected as higher institutions of learning. They are institutions of indoctrination.
No college should received federal funding. They should all be forced to operate as business for profit. When the president of the board of directors can vote himself a half million dollar annual paycheck, they don’t need my tax money. Competition and independence will make for a better education.
Yes and so all states that allow the restriction of free speech and goes against the Constitution of the United States.
Free speech is a fundamental right. Most colleges today have liberal professors, instructors, and administrators. Withholding funds from students hurts the students the most. Free speech should be permitted on campus, this is how ideas are exchanged. If conservative students are being attacked when speaking, this should be dealt with through the courts.