University of Nevada students have started protests over education cutbacks. Students should indeed be protesting. However, they are protesting the wrong thing!



To help straighten this out, please consider UNLV Students Walk Out of Classes in Budget Protest.



College students around Las Vegas are demanding lawmakers leave higher education alone.



To prove just how serious they are about fighting back, hundreds walked out of class Tuesday and headed to the Grant Sawyer Building, where lawmakers were holding an finance committee meeting, to make sure leaders get the point.



"I think people are fired up. It is very clear that we are not going anywhere and it's very clear that we are serious about what we want," said student Michael Flores.



Nevada Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley and Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, and others, came to thank the students for their passion. "Can there be some level of cuts? Yes. But can it be 30-percent? No," said Buckley.

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Addendum:

This needs to happen at an increasing national scale in order to reach the critical mass of mass-social recognition that at half or more of current college students are wasting their parents' money (or the money they must borrow) and their own time pursuing credentials which will see continuing diminishing returns into the future to the point that the net benefit from a bachelor's degree from the '90s hereafter will be perceived as meager to non-existent.



The US economy has created no net new private sector payroll jobs in 11 years, whereas males age 24-54 have seen no net increase in payrolls in 13-14 years and counting. In effect, with such punitive taxes on labor and little or no private sector growth possible because of Peak Oil and debt deflation, it increasingly does not pay to work for a private wage or salary in the US.



Thus, borrowing and/or spending out of pocket tens of thousands to a few hundreds of thousands of dollars for 4 or more years of post-secondary "education" in a discipline other than the life and physical sciences, medicine, or engineering is hardly more than funding bloated state and private school bureaucracies and their increasingly unsustainable pension fund assets and payouts.