The students of the USA are hurting. It isn't their fault. They have witnessed the bailout of investment banks while their educational opportunities are slipping through their fingers due to increasing costs with state budgets that can support their universities as they had before the economic collapse of October 2008.
President Obama and Vice President Biden along with Democrats swept into majority in 2006 and 2008 were strongly supported by Pro-Peace students demanding change and a return of their democracy.
In addition to the increasing costs of their education, they are witnessing the obstructionist forum of the Republicans and the Right they mostly hoped to replace. The democracy they love is being toyed with by minority power. They are becoming disillusioned. They need for their political leaders to do their part and take their protests seriously. The worst outcome for them and our country is for them to become estranged from their elected leaders.
What has happened with them is not fair in the remotest sense of the word. They need their President at their side. They are the future of this country and should be seen as vital partners to that future with valued opinions. Given a chance, if they were listened to rather than HANDLED, they may be able to solve their own problems with insight lacking by those that administer cuts to their funding rather than prioritizing it.
University of California, Berkeley, students Griffin Cassara, 19, left, and Katherine Cole, 18, walk past the state Capitol after a participating in a ralley against funding cut to higher education in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 4, 2010. Marches, strikes, teach-ins and walkouts were planned nationwide in what was being called the March 4th National Day of Action for Public Education.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
