Fracking And Higher Education

Instapundit

Excerpts:

1. North Dakota, unlike almost every other state, is poised to make an unprecedented spending increase in its higher education system.[ emphasis added]
2. Politicians and education leaders hope an infusion of cash will help transform the system
3. Republican lawmakers in other states have begun to question the value of state investments in higher education [emphasis added]
4. Republican lawmakers are eager and excited to invest in higher education.
5. Higher education leaders and politicians say that while the economic picture is unique to the state, the system would not be seeing an increase in funding had it not been for a concerted effort on the part of the board and system administration to prove that such an investment would be a good move on the part of lawmakers.

Comments:

1. The pile of money being generated by the oil business is corrupting the state.  They are starting to act like the blue states.
2. The infusion of cash will corrupt the system.  It will attract leftists to them like flies to shit.
3. It is correct to question the value of state investments.  That's because the system will be rigged to favor the state and not the people they are supposed to serve.
4. Note that it isn't a ideological position.  Republicans are calling for more spending.
5. It is in their interest to expand their power and so this is the way to do it--- more money and more spending equal more power to the state.

That's the downside of prosperity.  It will corrupt the politicians and the politicians in turn will corrupt the people.

What to do?  Don't feed the damned beast.  Don't give them any more money.