EDUCATION COSTS ARE OUTRAGEOUS, BUT WHEN WILL IT OUTRAGE US?

Dick Blumenthal is making the right kind of waves. Won't you support him?

Here is my story. The short version...

Where do I begin?
Ok, well, first let me be clear. What we're looking at is generational tyranny. The reason being that the old did not have to pay these insane prices to get a good education, nor did they have to suffer the consequences of an overburdened economy that has forgotten that production creates value, not exotic financial instruments or market manipulation. 
As an educator who cares deeply about the future I've witnessed friend after friend fall victim to this unfair debt spiral. In fact, my best friend owed $140,000 straight out of college. And we're not talking an MD, we're talking a bachelors' degree from the New School in NYC. 
These outrageous prices are a direct result of a meteoric rise in administration expenses and because of the FACT that these Academic Admin view Universities as businesses. Rather than controlling costs, they allow them to runaway and take positions at top companies when they're done with their tenure. Some professors and admin even become board members of companies while they are teaching. An example of when this would conflict is when a Pharmacology teacher works as a board member for Pfizer. I bet that's not too hard to find now a days given the revolving door between politics and big business.
The worst part may be that we were coerced by family, teachers and others we trusted into accepting these outlandish debt burdens as if there were no options. Which may be one of the unfortunate reasons that account for some of the animosity building between parents and children. I know that my own generation feels the reckless and irresponsible attitude of our elders, in terms of political, social and economic indifference and apathy toward the encroachment of their rights are what is to blame for the state of our union, that, despite what Obama claims, is awfully bloody, broken, battered and bruised.
Personally, I have a plan. It's a great plan. But as usual, NO ONE WILL LISTEN.

Hopefully, Dick will speak for us! I liked Elizabeth Warren's idea to make interest rates for students the same as banks. But the truth is Nothing will get done unless YOU participate in this democracy...
http://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/student-loan-stories?utm_source=DCS+Congressional+E-mail+Marketing+...