Does California spend too much on higher education?

Rashad Marecki: International students are not eligible for financial aid or most government based grants. The international students pay higher tuition and fees.Education helps future generations which will indirectly improve the inner cities.

Rayford Latz: Wow. When you visited, did you wear your white robe and hood, or did you go incognito?It seems that your idea of a perfect world is one that's full of white "Americans". Hitler had the same idea. Always blaming someone else.Since I'm in one of those facttual moods this morning, I'll try to enlighten you as an academic exercise. I don't have any delusions of trying to change your opinion, since the hardest thing to open is a closed mind:-UCLA and Cal Poly are "filled with immigrants". WRONG. Those people you see who happen to have a different color skin happen to be AMERICAN CITIZENS for the most part. A quick bit of research on the demographics at the UCLA (or UC) web site will confirm this. You can always tell! the bigots when they assume every person with brown skin is an immigrant (usually illegal).-"70-80% of LA is a dump". You mean 70-80% of what you saw by the freeway is a dump. LA is not defined by what you see from the freeway. Did it ever occur to you that the freeway is not a great home environment, and the home prices there might be a tad lower? Back when they built the freeways, they built them through the industrial and lower income parts of town. Makes sense that these areas are not so pretty. And since LA is such a sprawling area, you get to see a LOT of industrial complexes and lower income areas. Didja notice there is NO freeway through Beverly Hills? -"International students getting Pell grants"... does not relate to your question of "California spend[ing] too much on higher education". A Pell grant is a FEDERAL grant. Duh. Federal means from the US Government, not California. Oh, and Pell Grants are NOT given to International students. They must pay their own wa! y. You seem to have a strange definition of "International Stu! dent".Any question that states that California spends too much on higher education is ridiculous, in and of itself. Anyone with ANY knowledge of post-secondary education knows that California is spending too little in this area, and is trying to cut even more.It must be nice in the cheap seats, getting to play god as to who is worthy of living, worthy of going to improve oneself by getting an education, or even worthy of living. Perhaps you shouldn't come here to live in such a diverse society. Wouldn't want you to get dirty....Show more

Hobert Dula: I know of international students getting pell grants and financial aid.

Luana Carothers: Oh, please! If anything, they're cutting more and more on education.