Boren Wants More Money for "Education" - Here's Really Why

[rabidTU]

http://watchdog.org/192336/large-ou-faculty-staff-salaries-driving-student-debt/

This is a disguise that hoodwinks the voters into backing funding for "education", but OU of course gets their "cut". This is what democ-rats do and one of the ways they do it is to bait and switch the voting public.

 

[eastcane]

As bad as higher education has been destroyed the last 6 years of the Mary Fallin regime, I'm very much against this regressive sales tax on the hard working people of Oklahoma. It is a regressive tax, unlike the progressive income tax, which has been hacked bit by bit by the party of the Koch brothers in this lovely state. I know Boren is a wits end at what has transpired to common and higher education by the knuckle draggers currently in charge of our state, but this is not the answer.

 

[rabidTU]

From what I've read "higher ed" will get about 30% of the proceeds/moneys if this measure goes to a vote/passes and the reason I posted this was to show how outrageous some of the spending practices are at the state colleges and universities. It may not be a lack of funds as much as run away spending and salaries that need to be adjusted. Can anyone justify those kinds of salaries at universities supported by taxpayer money? I think not. But it goes back to the vast amounts of money the govt has on hand to spend and the mindset that there isn't a lot of oversight going on.

One of the election slogans is always "our kids are being shortchanged" or "Oklahoma is 48th or 49th in pay". I think Oklahoma teachers make a good middle class salary and they are also pension entitled. Pensions are seldom used anymore and I wish everyone still had them, but in OK a teaching job is still a pretty good one. But its outrageous to see the kinds of salaries a college professor such as those I linked actually make. But you still have the money grubbers like Boren increasing the pot. Follow the money.

IMO

 

[aTUfan]

Just wait a couple of years if the dems win the WH. all college will be free.