In a bid to return the Australian economy to surplus Treasurer Wayne Swan has taken the razor to education, increasing annual HECS fees for university science and maths students from $4691 to $8353 - cancelling the incentive to study those subjects.
- Outrageous!!!
Dumbing us down indeed, and it doesn't stop there, it stars with their school curriculum, particularly that of public education, and do you know why Manta?
Because it creates more uni spots for moneyed families and international full-fee payers kids to enter not based purely on merit/IQ, it also encourages full-fee paying students (ie immigrants and the wealthy) to buy into our University education.
Coupled with GALP slapping uni students with compulsory student union fees each year and their pruning rural kids studying away from home out of the equation also...(cut back on studying/living away from home accommodation incentives and allowances for rural kids in Australia that once made it possible for bright rural Aussie kids to embark on tertiary study ie live on campus)...... Now only the rich kids can do this, when half the time, they live close enough to their chosen campus anyway thus really only do it for the cultural experience, not out of genuine necessity, because they will pay the price, as will moneyed international full-fee paying students.
Before it was heavily subsidised for rural Aussie kids.
The thing is Mantra, it's about dumbing the middle and lower tiers of our Australian society down to create more spots for full-fee paying students ----This is how Swan plans to save the day by destroying opportunities for middle class kids today so they will mine quarries in fluorescent shirts with shovels instead to uphold our bulging top-heavy upper tiers of society, and dwindling middle class tomorrow.
They want a two-speed society along with a two-speed economy... and plan on turning us into America, whereby only rich kids get to go to Yale, the rest (irrespective of how smart they are) go off to their local community college to form part of a shrinking middle class.
Just as Bill Shorten (who is infatuated with the US) wants to implement an American style republic and election campaign system here in Australia...(Ie, only the moneyed will have enough $$ to run for presidency) likewise, our highly sort after and competitive courses in our universities will become inaccessible to the middle class also.
Irrespective of how bright they are...they simply wont be able to afford their chosen career path, even if they happen to be lucky enough to live close to their preferred university.
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This is what some voted for Mantra, it's just, it's only now are we realising what their (Gillards and the red-Greens) underlying agenda is, and always was.
Socialism ---to--- communism in less than 3 years.
Fantastic!
And they call this moving forward, apparently.
Tell this to our youth whom unless they are wealthy really don't have the same choices, opportunities they once had under a better, more democratic Liberal government.
Howard scrapped compulsory student union fees, Labor and the red-Greens (GALP) re-introduced them.
This is just the start.
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Why do I say red-greens?
Because there are red-Greens and grass-roots genuinely green-Greens...sadly, it's the red-Greens who have positioned themselves to call the shots in recent years, much to the genuinely "Green" supporters despair.
This can happen to any party, and had Turnbull been allowed to remain leader of the Liberal party, the same thing would have happened here to the Libs, hence they have effectively ousted him quietly and for good reason.
He has a red centre also, this and is out for himself, and like Shorten, is moneyed, and wants to self-fund his own American styled election campaign.
Hence a republic suits him also!
Every party has their greedy turncoats and red-centres.
Effectively, this is the systemic and intellectual purging of our bright middle class, now we will have kids who's moneyed parents purchased their way to pseudo-academic 'exam-scaled' excellence and their preferred uni course, not those who are genuinely gifted, capable, and who genuinely deserve to be studding these courses now beyond their financial reach.
Such a pity, because this declining standard will impact on all of us in the long run, who would you prefer performing surgery on your brain, a naturally gifted student who earned his or her way to professional excellence based on natural ability and determination, or Paris Hilton or Bob Brown with a surgical mask who felt like playing Dr for a day, or year or so because daddy could purchase her place (right of passage) into med-school, and who only did so for the title and status simply because their parents wanted them to and they could?
Do you really think Bob Brown wanted to be a Dr?
He was "acting-out" and his parents sent him off to med-school thinking he'd settle down and become more stable, he has a concerning psychiatric history,(which started well before he was sexually abused by his male school teacher) this and would never have afforded med-school had he not blackmailed his high school teacher into footing the course-fees.
His parents were opportunistic parasites, and so is he!
What sort of parents would agree to settle out of court for a sum of money knowing full well, this teacher who abused their son would mostly likely go onto to abuse others if not brought to justice and publicly exposed?
They took the money and ran.. saw it as an opportunity to get a young already troubled bobby into a course he wouldn't have got into had they not took the money and settled out of court.
You can place a dunce in a class/med-school full of geniuses, but unless they are academically capable this and determined, the genius wont rub off.
This was why he hooked up with that other crook/crack-pot, now de-registered fraudulent Dr Death he completed his internship with in the UK after attending med-school together here in Sydney.
They were on the same page!
Ask Jimmy Hendrix who he would have preferred in Emergency the night intern Dr come senator Bob Brown along with another Australian intern (Now de-registered for medical negligence and malpractice) fresh out of med-school pronounced him dead.
Off to a great start....
Move forward even?