The Rusted Musket

I can’t help but poke fun at this article because the university system costs so much and its funny how expensive school is and how little we students seem to get. I mean they are getting these millions and millions of dollars and school is costing students 10k+, 15k, 20k, a year and many classes have 200 students which are essentially being taught by a TA. Yeah right that sounds like a great school! Where is all the money going then? Why do they *need* this money to “save” jobs in the first place?

Anyway, back to my original idea. College jobs are important, they can help to instruct people and ease them into the working world. However, State University jobs do not create jobs, where as that amount of money as grants or loans to small businesses would most likely create many more jobs. Why is that? Because a business, wants to and need to grow, to increase revenues and to eventually hire more employees. A College isn’t in the same class, the can become a money sink and don’t generally return a profit, or much of a revenue increase.

Its funny how, with all this stimulus, little of it found its way into small businesses’ hands. My wife and I wanted to get a small business loan and it was a royal pain to even apply and there is a very limited amount of funds available. And these are loans too, not grants or anything. It seems to me that the government needs to re prioritize.