I honestly, honestly wonder how such deceitful, thieving people live with themselves.
I think you're being a bit harsh here. One of the best ways to improve productivity in aggregate (and in return, get more tax dollars) is to improve[1] citizen's education.
I understand that there are potential pitfalls with what he's suggesting but to describe him as "deceitful and thieving" for suggesting something he thinks will help America is beyond the pale.
[1] Things like engineering and science, not gender studies or literature. Regardless of the merits of the latter two they don't really contribute to productivity.
Just look at the NYT article on a student with $100,000 debt from attending NYU; you had to go down 30+ paragraphs, to the 3rd from the last, to find out her major was in womens and religious study. An honest, non-political article would have brought that out earlier and as something more than an aside.
How that would play out with STEM majors ... I'm not sure. Starting in the '80s there's been an strong push on the supply side which we can see reflected in flattish salaries, so more subsidization instead of (or in addition to) more H-1B etc. visas might be an outcome. But I wouldn't want to bet on it.
Or take the worse fevered nightmares of the Left, would a President Palin mandate that all biology departments teach Intelligent Design instead of evolution? He who pays the piper picks the tune....
