Tuitions keep rising; do the protesters know why?

Anger over increasing tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California.

Students, teachers, parents and school employees rallied and marched Thursday at college campuses, public parks and government buildings in many U.S. cities in what was called the March 4 Day of Action to Defend Public Education.

In California, protesters evaded police and walked onto Interstate 880 near downtown Oakland just before 5 p.m., forcing the closure of the freeway in both directions for more than an hour and causing traffic to back up for miles.

My take:

Legitimate protest? Or street theater?

I don't know. What I do know is that I worked my way through college, and I could not do that now because rising tuition costs have far outstripped the rise in wages in jobs that students can get.

Why has that happened? Because college faculties and administrations are almost wall-to-wall liberals and Democrats. They pressure politicians to provide more and more ways to subsidize students through loans and grants. Then they raise tuitions and and fatten their own pay checks.

From those fattened pay checks, faculty members and administrators then remunerate politicans through campaign contributions, who then enact more and more aid programs for students. The inflationary cycle goes on.

College education is, in effect, a microcosm of socialism. Students are taught to believe they're being helped by a beneficent government and taught by selfless, high-minded intellectuals, while in fact liberal politicians are securing their own careers and growing government.