If the government funds a Harvard study, and it turns out the scientists in the study committed massive academic fraud and falsified their study, do we as the taxpayer get a refund?
The fundamental reason why a government-based economy can't work is that they have very little to no accountability when they don't produce the result people want, or even worse, when they produce a bad and often destructive result for society. Easiest comparison: how the biggest and second biggest oil spills pay for their damages.
Taxes aren't for the public good the primary function of taxes are to 1: keep the peons poor 2: make your owners richer and 3: control the peons and stop them from revolting.
This is because patents are too long. If a patent is 20 years, then research should be for items that are over 20 years away from commercialization. If the research is 5 years from commercialization, then the patent should be 5 years.
@@theBear89451I always felt that any federal funding for research should reduce the patent by the percentage that the federal government contributed. If the government provided 50% of your funding, your patents are only going to be for 10 years.
All you need to know to understand the current congress has no constitutional power. 1. Title 2 Congress has no positive law citation (it is not a constitutional law). 2. They use the wrong enacting clause. 3. None or almost none of them served in the military. 4. Non-Commissioned officers must be 18. 18+7=25 Representatives must be a citizen of the United States and have 7 years and age of 25. 5. Commissioned officers must be 21. 21+9=30 Senators must be a citizen of the United States for 9 years and be age 30. 6. President as -Executive of the United States of America -Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States - Commissioned at 21. Military for 14 years (a citizen of the United States) 21+14=35 -President/Commander in Chief must have 14 years (in the military/Resident of the United States or have served for 14 years) citizen of the United States and must be 35 years. NONE OR ALMOST NONE OF THEM CONGRESS AND/OR PRESIDENT QUALIFY GOR THE POSITIONS/OFFICES CREATED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Side note, if we're going to pay colleges research grant money, the findings should be *FULLY accessible to the public* and not restricted to students and staff.
By and large they are accessible, use google scholar and you can find virtually unlimited research that’s not behind a paywall. But if you do find something that is, just email the researchers, more often then not they’re glad to share their work, and it’s not like universities put much effort into anti-piracy measures anyways
5 years ago at a state school would charge 54% overhead in theory to cover things like phones and networks but also charge for every phone or network drop they turned on for the unit per month and there was no discount for having already paid the indirect costs. They literally have consulting groups come in to work on how to plump the indirect funds as well as redesigning their tuition and fees such that those fees can be covered by more federal loans. It's an insidious business and we need to pull the plug already ( in terms of tax support ).
If Harvard has more money than Jesus, how much taxpayer dollars is the government giving to Jesus? Wait, government. You gave my money to the wrong Jesus.
They don't have a choice except to keep printing. It will mean when it fails it will fail HARD but at least it's not during our administration right? lol
@@NineSeptimsyep, that's why we're not in a permanent recession. They're essentially doing "double it and give it to the next person" every election cycle. Unfortunately they can't keep going like that forever, they just made the economy of the strongest global superpower into a ticking nuclear timebomb.
Agree. We shouldn't be spending tax payer money on any of this crap, but ESPECIALLY endowments for ivy leagues from the pockets of average Americans, and even if you understand why people like research and think the US gov has incentives to fund said research (which it does) then at least cut the worst of the worst spending.
"Very simple solution. Stop giving any tax money to universities." I wish we could decide where our tax dollars goes That would solve so many problems.
No? Public schools need pubic funding, maybe I'm just outing myself as a liberal but the problem was that a private college known to teach socialist ideas is being funded by the government instead of public colleges the average American can attend.
Awesome video. TAX those endowments at least. The Universities are definitely partisan. Give them the choice to have no Federal funding or to be taxed on the endowments.
All you need to know to understand the current congress has no constitutional power. 1. Title 2 Congress has no positive law citation (it is not a constitutional law). 2. They use the wrong enacting clause. 3. None or almost none of them served in the military. 4. Non-Commissioned officers must be 18. 18+7=25 Representatives must be a citizen of the United States and have 7 years and age of 25. 5. Commissioned officers must be 21. 21+9=30 Senators must be a citizen of the United States for 9 years and be age 30. 6. President as -Executive of the United States of America -Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States - Commissioned at 21. Military for 14 years (a citizen of the United States) 21+14=35 -President/Commander in Chief must have 14 years (in the military/Resident of the United States or have served for 14 years) citizen of the United States and must be 35 years. NONE OR ALMOST NONE OF THEM CONGRESS AND/OR PRESIDENT QUALIFY GOR THE POSITIONS/OFFICES CREATED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Academia is just not the efficient way to do practical research to achieve specific goals. Research departments of businesses are more efficient at turning money into usable data, because they care more about actually getting the results, while the academics care more about the process itself.
So we are going to fund universities that don't make profits, and revoke funding if they do. I wonder if there may unintended consequences in the incentive structure.
We could either stop paying altogether or do a voucher system. As for research money.... I have no idea how to make this not terrible. But I also think there are legitimate reasons for the government to incentivize research and even pay for some of it. I guess we could start with obvious improvements like not paying for overhead, spending money on replication studies and peer reviewing, and streamlining the grant process. The problem is how to determine which research deserves funding and how much funding is the right amount. I suspect the answer is probably something like implementing standard accounting practices with itemized budgets on both the government and university side of things, but really I have no idea.
Go Cats! I'm a Northwestern alumnus, but I agree that not only does Northwestern not need/deserve the money, but they aren't good fiduciaries of the taxpayer largesse.
This has been my opinion for ages. And lets start putting the universities on the hook for these student loans. You want to get money for it, you should make sure the students graduate and if they don't get a job in X time after graduation that is enough to pay the loan off, the school covers it.
Modern day failed caste system!!! I love you bromandude. Thats been my motto for the last 100+posts. Good to see someone else understand this modern day failure.
This doesn’t include tax breaks provided to the parents of the students and grants going to the universities. My son did a paper on this subject and found the rate spent by our government on tuition came to about $63 billion. That would be enough to pay for a 4 year degree at a community college for every single high school graduate in the US. Insane!
I have a theory. Maybe, if an ivy league university wants to exist in America, maybe they need to allocate some research resources to American interests. Kinda like how everyone else needs to pay property tax?
Tax money goes to a lot of private organizations, that do things like build roads, design fighter jets, perform basic research. Pretty much any job you can think of, there is a private company doing it as a government contractor... there's a company installs and maintain elevators on military bases; there a company that mows the grass in the median of interstate highways.
@@langmod Everyone has access to public roads. Everyone does not have access to Harvard. And no, the supposed social benefit its graduates provide does not justify forcing us to fund it.
@@sanniepstein4835 The money going to basic research at Harvard benefits everyone. Things like smallpox vaccine, insulin, kidney transplants, PET scans, and pacemakers were developed at Harvard. The way it works is the NIH puts out a call for proposals and then a bunch of researchers submit proposals, and the group with the most promising proposal wins the grant contract. There are a lot of smart people at Harvard, and some money going to the top researchers in their field at Harvard is better for the public than the money only competed for by faculty at State schools. This money has nothing to do with students or graduates of Harvard.
So they overbilled, Congress sent a strongly worded letter and moved on. If anyone complained, they would say it was such a small amount of the overall budget that fixing it would hardly dent all of the other over spending and waste. Got it.
“Overhead” should cover things like water and electricity bills. Any funding for student government, indigenous people celebration, and fountains should be denied.
If you're reading this 10 or 15 years from now, yes, we knew we were wasting money, but we didn't do anything about it. We used to watch videos like this from our phones or home computers, but you've probably pirated a small amount of electricity from the government's private grid to momentarily charge an illegal personal device to view this outlawed content. Also, we're sorry about the rain water. It was once potable.
Totally on board with tax dollars not being just given away, but how are the funds going to the school? Most universities have grant divisions who compete for the money. I apply for grants through my university all the time. It's for research funding to try new projects. Sometimes the money is from a private grant, sometimes it's federal funds.
I should have kept watching before I commented. 100% yes to the overhead. My current grant has a cap on indirect costs of 15%. Federal grants have a cap around 55% for indirect. My endowment fund is earmarked so I can't use it for tuition payments for students. There's explicitly $10 million just sitting there for building renovations and by a contract with a private party I can't use it for anything else.
All you need to know to understand the current congress has no constitutional power. 1. Title 2 Congress has no positive law citation (it is not a constitutional law). 2. They use the wrong enacting clause. 3. None or almost none of them served in the military. 4. Non-Commissioned officers must be 18. 18+7=25 Representatives must be a citizen of the United States and have 7 years and age of 25. 5. Commissioned officers must be 21. 21+9=30 Senators must be a citizen of the United States for 9 years and be age 30. 6. President as -Executive of the United States of America -Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States - Commissioned at 21. Military for 14 years (a citizen of the United States) 21+14=35 -President/Commander in Chief must have 14 years (in the military/Resident of the United States or have served for 14 years) citizen of the United States and must be 35 years. NONE OR ALMOST NONE OF THEM CONGRESS AND/OR PRESIDENT QUALIFY GOR THE POSITIONS/OFFICES CREATED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
It's just royalty handing out money to favorites, not for some some reason like they are supporting the Kingdom in securing it from those Anglo-Saxon peasants, but just because we have it and we can.
1:32 just calling it here before I hear anything else. Knowledge is important yes but they are not being paid this money. They fund research projects, which is a shame that U.S. state universities can not be trusted to be better. It's technological development that, when funded, normally quickly finds itself first in the hands of the government before anyone else.
My suspicion is that the tuition help is for things like Pell grants which are provided for any American university's poorest students even if unnecessary. Then the overhead funding *usually* doesn't go to DEI or Yachts but rather better more complicated experimental equipment than necessary.
Given someone was in US Army Psych Ops, they may have had to swear an oath not to use it on the American people. I postulate that the background of Psych Ops was developed with Academia, and certain Academics didn't take the same oath......or slid some research to their buddies....who didn't take the same oath. There is a Dark Side to Psychology.
Federal for research is a wonderful thing (I'd argue that technology developed via federal funding should have reduced time under patent before it enters public domain, but that's complicated). Federal research grants should require an itemized invoice be submitted.
I'd also be curious to know how much of tuition actually goes towards education (salaries, keeping the lights on, facilities maintenance, etc). That's been my opposition to the student loan forgiveness thing. The actual borrowers, many of them, need some debt relief. Because of how easy it was to get unsecured loans, the price of education just fucking skyrocketed. I'm torn, because on the one hand, I want universities to have fuck loads of cash. I'm sure some of them manage to actually do good things with it. On the other hand....they're the actual borrower of student loans. Like fuck, if their needs to be debts settled, it should be a discussion between the universities and the lenders. Just on principle, I lean more towards fuck the lenders honestly. But the situation is honestly fucked. I don't know who i hate more?
Fun Fact - University tuition is so expensive because the federal government provides Pell grants and guaranteed student loans to "make higher education more affordable." Prior to government tuition assistance, college students would work their way through school with a part time job. In 2024, very few part time waitresses make $80,000 a year.
In unrelated news, it’s against the NAP to not create a sequel to the series that includes “Libertarian Star Trek,” and “Libertarian G.O.T.” Your comedy skits are highly underrated.
I'm not for "free college" or "free healthcare" but when I see stuff like this it annoys me to no end knowing we easily could have that stuff if we stopped blowing money everywhere.
I was total aware of all of this... except the blatant embezzlement. Don't know how I missed that, because it seems like it should have been headline news. Oh wait, the news only talks about "important stuff" like what wars we totally need to be involved in, and complains about how much Elon Musk's compensation package was. (which shareholders voluntarily voted on)
Outside of research grants and contracts (at least we get something for those, though we can debate on their usefulness), they shouldn't get anything. Nor should any private institution except as stated above.
Basic research is important! It goes based on grant applications for research. That research as it crazy as it seems on face value often produces applied research and patents and new companies and new jobs. Their students also start new companies develop new tech, create new companies and new jobs. Yes, indirect costs are high but the feds could negotiate that one.
Missed an important point. This gives government (i.e. politicians) power over which studies are performed and what their outcome is. Think of that whenever you hear “follow the science” or “99% of scientists agree.”
I know you're very busy with your outstanding podcasts and engagements, but I would really like to see more of your anchor/skit stuff like this. Its genuinely really great.
Why are we funding for profit institutions who charge very inflated prices to attend to get a piece of paper so that you can work in retail jobs because the diploma is worthless?
there was a lot of jokes in here but "dolphins are degenerate" was NOT one of them. sure theyre cute and smart but degenerate is a very apt description
@@MajorT0m Dolphins have been known to rape just about anything they can. They aren't the only animal to do it, but you still want to be careful around them in particular. They can also drown you.
Very simple, harvard has produced lots of great things including transplants and the science for the polio vaccine. Even Milton Friedman thought that education had positive neighborhood effects. This again convinces me that libertarians are nuts.
If the government funds a Harvard study, and it turns out the scientists in the study committed massive academic fraud and falsified their study, do we as the taxpayer get a refund?
lol nope
Lots of that happened in the last three or four years.
Nope. We get a big pile of paper with "FRAUDULENT! DO NOT USE EXCEPT IN CASES OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY!" written on it.
No, you get gulag comrade for not supporting the party.
The fundamental reason why a government-based economy can't work is that they have very little to no accountability when they don't produce the result people want, or even worse, when they produce a bad and often destructive result for society. Easiest comparison: how the biggest and second biggest oil spills pay for their damages.
I'm adding "Contributed millions to Harvard endowment" to my resume.
*Billions
Follow up question: if the US Government assists in paying for research, why can the product that research be monopolized by private interests?
Taxes aren't for the public good the primary function of taxes are to 1: keep the peons poor 2: make your owners richer and 3: control the peons and stop them from revolting.
This is because patents are too long. If a patent is 20 years, then research should be for items that are over 20 years away from commercialization. If the research is 5 years from commercialization, then the patent should be 5 years.
@@theBear89451I always felt that any federal funding for research should reduce the patent by the percentage that the federal government contributed. If the government provided 50% of your funding, your patents are only going to be for 10 years.
Good point. 👍
All you need to know to understand the current congress has no constitutional power.
1. Title 2 Congress has no positive law citation (it is not a constitutional law).
2. They use the wrong enacting clause.
3. None or almost none of them served in the military.
4. Non-Commissioned officers must be 18. 18+7=25
Representatives must be a citizen of the United States and have 7 years and age of 25.
5. Commissioned officers must be 21.
21+9=30
Senators must be a citizen of the United States for 9 years and be age 30.
6. President as
-Executive of the United States of America
-Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States
- Commissioned at 21. Military for 14 years (a citizen of the United States) 21+14=35
-President/Commander in Chief must have 14 years (in the military/Resident of the United States or have served for 14 years) citizen of the United States and must be 35 years.
NONE OR ALMOST NONE OF THEM CONGRESS AND/OR PRESIDENT QUALIFY GOR THE POSITIONS/OFFICES CREATED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Side note, if we're going to pay colleges research grant money, the findings should be *FULLY accessible to the public* and not restricted to students and staff.
By and large they are accessible, use google scholar and you can find virtually unlimited research that’s not behind a paywall. But if you do find something that is, just email the researchers, more often then not they’re glad to share their work, and it’s not like universities put much effort into anti-piracy measures anyways
Research findings are either fully accessible to the public (open access) or only accessible to paying subscribers of the publisher. Weird? Well it is
5 years ago at a state school would charge 54% overhead in theory to cover things like phones and networks but also charge for every phone or network drop they turned on for the unit per month and there was no discount for having already paid the indirect costs. They literally have consulting groups come in to work on how to plump the indirect funds as well as redesigning their tuition and fees such that those fees can be covered by more federal loans. It's an insidious business and we need to pull the plug already ( in terms of tax support ).
If Harvard has more money than Jesus, how much taxpayer dollars is the government giving to Jesus?
Wait, government. You gave my money to the wrong Jesus.
Andrew Heaton is the best -- bring back Mostly Weekly!
Fuck that. Bring back EconPop!
Mostly Weekly > EconPop (I like both btw).
Citizens v government
Red cop v blue cop
The absurd laws that we have
Everything they do is great
Always wonderful to see the great Andrew Heaton on ReasonTV.
Community College here, we bought a yacht. What? We need it for big foot research.
Remember: this is money that does not exist - since we are technically bankrupt. This is money that needs to be 'printed'. Yaaaay government.
They don't have a choice except to keep printing. It will mean when it fails it will fail HARD but at least it's not during our administration right? lol
@@NineSeptimsyep, that's why we're not in a permanent recession. They're essentially doing "double it and give it to the next person" every election cycle. Unfortunately they can't keep going like that forever, they just made the economy of the strongest global superpower into a ticking nuclear timebomb.
Agree. We shouldn't be spending tax payer money on any of this crap, but ESPECIALLY endowments for ivy leagues from the pockets of average Americans, and even if you understand why people like research and think the US gov has incentives to fund said research (which it does) then at least cut the worst of the worst spending.
Very simple solution. Stop giving any tax money to universities.
stop paying taxes at all!!! that's criminal and extortive
I don’t know if the US can handle a bit more of idiocy
"Very simple solution. Stop giving any tax money to universities."
I wish we could decide where our tax dollars goes
That would solve so many problems.
@@zorono2001 Do you think letting universities sink or float on their own merits will result in *more* idiocy than we have now?
No? Public schools need pubic funding, maybe I'm just outing myself as a liberal but the problem was that a private college known to teach socialist ideas is being funded by the government instead of public colleges the average American can attend.
Awesome video. TAX those endowments at least. The Universities are definitely partisan. Give them the choice to have no Federal funding or to be taxed on the endowments.
Excellent. More videos like this, please.
I don't know if community colleges would actually use the money any wiser.
So true. Like public schools, they'd probably just hire more government employees.
We need more of this type of content!
Andrew Heaton is a nation treasure.
I searched, "What if John Oliver was actually funny," and landed here.
But John Oliver is funny. And because of him, I know. That while homeschooling Can be beneficial it could use a few reforms
John used to be funny. But I guess when you become a well paid shill and human megaphone for the state you dont really have to try anymore.
All you need to know to understand the current congress has no constitutional power.
1. Title 2 Congress has no positive law citation (it is not a constitutional law).
2. They use the wrong enacting clause.
3. None or almost none of them served in the military.
4. Non-Commissioned officers must be 18. 18+7=25
Representatives must be a citizen of the United States and have 7 years and age of 25.
5. Commissioned officers must be 21.
21+9=30
Senators must be a citizen of the United States for 9 years and be age 30.
6. President as
-Executive of the United States of America
-Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States
- Commissioned at 21. Military for 14 years (a citizen of the United States) 21+14=35
-President/Commander in Chief must have 14 years (in the military/Resident of the United States or have served for 14 years) citizen of the United States and must be 35 years.
NONE OR ALMOST NONE OF THEM CONGRESS AND/OR PRESIDENT QUALIFY GOR THE POSITIONS/OFFICES CREATED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Welcome, join us my friend. The water is warm and it's not urine.
John Oliver is funny to neck beards / Disney adults
One of the best recent videos in a long time.
Love to see more videos from Heaton!
Academia is just not the efficient way to do practical research to achieve specific goals. Research departments of businesses are more efficient at turning money into usable data, because they care more about actually getting the results, while the academics care more about the process itself.
Protect Andrew at all costs - he is a treasure
Andrew Heaton is one of the true good things in the world.
So we are going to fund universities that don't make profits, and revoke funding if they do.
I wonder if there may unintended consequences in the incentive structure.
We could either stop paying altogether or do a voucher system.
As for research money.... I have no idea how to make this not terrible. But I also think there are legitimate reasons for the government to incentivize research and even pay for some of it. I guess we could start with obvious improvements like not paying for overhead, spending money on replication studies and peer reviewing, and streamlining the grant process.
The problem is how to determine which research deserves funding and how much funding is the right amount. I suspect the answer is probably something like implementing standard accounting practices with itemized budgets on both the government and university side of things, but really I have no idea.
You can tell the number of Harvard administrators by the number of thumbs down this video gets.
I’m a progressive but videos like these keep me coming back. Thanks again for another great one!
You actually had me laughing so hard I teared up. This is fantastic.
hallelujah. Give it up brother
I love me some Heaton! Funny and informative!
“Overhead” is what funds Wokeness and I was about to yell in comments, and then you bright them up. Awesome.
This is the funniest (and saddest) Heaton video I've seen in a long time. Thanks!
As President Claudine Gay found out, it's difficult running a daycare center the size of Harvard University.
Go Cats! I'm a Northwestern alumnus, but I agree that not only does Northwestern not need/deserve the money, but they aren't good fiduciaries of the taxpayer largesse.
This has been my opinion for ages. And lets start putting the universities on the hook for these student loans. You want to get money for it, you should make sure the students graduate and if they don't get a job in X time after graduation that is enough to pay the loan off, the school covers it.
And no student loan forgiveness. All defaulted loans should be paid by the universities.
Modern day failed caste system!!! I love you bromandude.
Thats been my motto for the last 100+posts. Good to see someone else understand this modern day failure.
We need to vote for those that don't give money to these institutions!
Love Andrew Heaton!
This doesn’t include tax breaks provided to the parents of the students and grants going to the universities. My son did a paper on this subject and found the rate spent by our government on tuition came to about $63 billion. That would be enough to pay for a 4 year degree at a community college for every single high school graduate in the US. Insane!
I have a theory. Maybe, if an ivy league university wants to exist in America, maybe they need to allocate some research resources to American interests. Kinda like how everyone else needs to pay property tax?
This is unbelievable
Why would I have to give any money to a private university.
It's called fraudulent behavior. I find jobs that pay cash
Tax money goes to a lot of private organizations, that do things like build roads, design fighter jets, perform basic research. Pretty much any job you can think of, there is a private company doing it as a government contractor... there's a company installs and maintain elevators on military bases; there a company that mows the grass in the median of interstate highways.
@@langmod "privatization" is a republican con to steal public resources/money.
@@langmod Everyone has access to public roads. Everyone does not have access to Harvard. And no, the supposed social benefit its graduates provide does not justify forcing us to fund it.
@@sanniepstein4835 The money going to basic research at Harvard benefits everyone. Things like smallpox vaccine, insulin, kidney transplants, PET scans, and pacemakers were developed at Harvard. The way it works is the NIH puts out a call for proposals and then a bunch of researchers submit proposals, and the group with the most promising proposal wins the grant contract. There are a lot of smart people at Harvard, and some money going to the top researchers in their field at Harvard is better for the public than the money only competed for by faculty at State schools. This money has nothing to do with students or graduates of Harvard.
I ❤ Andrew Heaton
So they overbilled, Congress sent a strongly worded letter and moved on. If anyone complained, they would say it was such a small amount of the overall budget that fixing it would hardly dent all of the other over spending and waste. Got it.
Because they just told us aliens might be living inside the moon. That's valuable intel. Worth it!
“Overhead” should cover things like water and electricity bills. Any funding for student government, indigenous people celebration, and fountains should be denied.
Colonial be like:
This video is a work of art. Thank you.
This is very true. Particulaly in the soft sciences. Grants given for useless research with insane overhead cost.
Private educational institution receiving public funds. What could go wrong!!
2:39 the answer is C: Absolutely
I'm not any kind of Libertarian but I find you guys funny and you make some very good points
THANK YOU. Defund madrassas.
Heaton's callbacks are a work of art - always hilarious!
Get Stefan Molyneux on here to do "the truth about" and have people vote on it.
Preach.
If you're reading this 10 or 15 years from now, yes, we knew we were wasting money, but we didn't do anything about it. We used to watch videos like this from our phones or home computers, but you've probably pirated a small amount of electricity from the government's private grid to momentarily charge an illegal personal device to view this outlawed content. Also, we're sorry about the rain water. It was once potable.
Love Heaton!
This video need 100 million views
At least 150 million, the amount of eligible voters in the US
Totally on board with tax dollars not being just given away, but how are the funds going to the school? Most universities have grant divisions who compete for the money. I apply for grants through my university all the time. It's for research funding to try new projects. Sometimes the money is from a private grant, sometimes it's federal funds.
I should have kept watching before I commented. 100% yes to the overhead. My current grant has a cap on indirect costs of 15%. Federal grants have a cap around 55% for indirect. My endowment fund is earmarked so I can't use it for tuition payments for students. There's explicitly $10 million just sitting there for building renovations and by a contract with a private party I can't use it for anything else.
All you need to know to understand the current congress has no constitutional power.
1. Title 2 Congress has no positive law citation (it is not a constitutional law).
2. They use the wrong enacting clause.
3. None or almost none of them served in the military.
4. Non-Commissioned officers must be 18. 18+7=25
Representatives must be a citizen of the United States and have 7 years and age of 25.
5. Commissioned officers must be 21.
21+9=30
Senators must be a citizen of the United States for 9 years and be age 30.
6. President as
-Executive of the United States of America
-Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States
- Commissioned at 21. Military for 14 years (a citizen of the United States) 21+14=35
-President/Commander in Chief must have 14 years (in the military/Resident of the United States or have served for 14 years) citizen of the United States and must be 35 years.
NONE OR ALMOST NONE OF THEM CONGRESS AND/OR PRESIDENT QUALIFY GOR THE POSITIONS/OFFICES CREATED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Defund the academy.
It's just royalty handing out money to favorites, not for some some reason like they are supporting the Kingdom in securing it from those Anglo-Saxon peasants, but just because we have it and we can.
1:32 just calling it here before I hear anything else. Knowledge is important yes but they are not being paid this money. They fund research projects, which is a shame that U.S. state universities can not be trusted to be better. It's technological development that, when funded, normally quickly finds itself first in the hands of the government before anyone else.
I'm not that complicated a person; I see Andrew Heaton's mug, I click on the video!
My belief is simple ... Government should provide "scholarships" to all students and ZERO funding to ANY college!!
Shocking
My suspicion is that the tuition help is for things like Pell grants which are provided for any American university's poorest students even if unnecessary. Then the overhead funding *usually* doesn't go to DEI or Yachts but rather better more complicated experimental equipment than necessary.
Heaton is top notch
HEATON IS BACK
Brilliant writing.
So that Lisa Simpson may study there.
Mr Gambini,that is a lucid,intelligent,well thought out objection. Overruled.
I see Heaton, I watch the video.
This is Reason's best work.
Forget the open borders nuttiness and focus on sensible matters like this.
Given someone was in US Army Psych Ops, they may have had to swear an oath not to use it on the American people. I postulate that the background of Psych Ops was developed with Academia, and certain Academics didn't take the same oath......or slid some research to their buddies....who didn't take the same oath. There is a Dark Side to Psychology.
Federal for research is a wonderful thing (I'd argue that technology developed via federal funding should have reduced time under patent before it enters public domain, but that's complicated). Federal research grants should require an itemized invoice be submitted.
I'd also be curious to know how much of tuition actually goes towards education (salaries, keeping the lights on, facilities maintenance, etc). That's been my opposition to the student loan forgiveness thing. The actual borrowers, many of them, need some debt relief. Because of how easy it was to get unsecured loans, the price of education just fucking skyrocketed.
I'm torn, because on the one hand, I want universities to have fuck loads of cash. I'm sure some of them manage to actually do good things with it. On the other hand....they're the actual borrower of student loans. Like fuck, if their needs to be debts settled, it should be a discussion between the universities and the lenders. Just on principle, I lean more towards fuck the lenders honestly. But the situation is honestly fucked. I don't know who i hate more?
Fun Fact - University tuition is so expensive because the federal government provides Pell grants and guaranteed student loans to "make higher education more affordable." Prior to government tuition assistance, college students would work their way through school with a part time job. In 2024, very few part time waitresses make $80,000 a year.
In unrelated news, it’s against the NAP to not create a sequel to the series that includes “Libertarian Star Trek,” and “Libertarian G.O.T.”
Your comedy skits are highly underrated.
I'm not for "free college" or "free healthcare" but when I see stuff like this it annoys me to no end knowing we easily could have that stuff if we stopped blowing money everywhere.
I was total aware of all of this... except the blatant embezzlement. Don't know how I missed that, because it seems like it should have been headline news. Oh wait, the news only talks about "important stuff" like what wars we totally need to be involved in, and complains about how much Elon Musk's compensation package was. (which shareholders voluntarily voted on)
Outside of research grants and contracts (at least we get something for those, though we can debate on their usefulness), they shouldn't get anything. Nor should any private institution except as stated above.
College is a business.
I find a lot of Andrew Heaton's videos have an equestrian theme to them.
He is a shill for Big Equine. Snuffys used to be his main sponsor
Basic research is important! It goes based on grant applications for research. That research as it crazy as it seems on face value often produces applied research and patents and new companies and new jobs. Their students also start new companies develop new tech, create new companies and new jobs. Yes, indirect costs are high but the feds could negotiate that one.
How many grants did the Wright brothers receive?
Missed an important point.
This gives government (i.e. politicians) power over which studies are performed and what their outcome is.
Think of that whenever you hear “follow the science” or “99% of scientists agree.”
Harvard is an investment fund that hobbies at running a school.
I used to smoke pot with Johnny Hopkins. He and Sloan Kettering were blazin' that shit up every day.
10:00 - That bigfoot is Austin Bragg. The kinestetics are a dead giveaway.
I learned more about Fidel Castro in this video than I ever did in school. Thanks for nothing, Northwestern.
Cool. Once were done then we can stop giving money to insurance corporations as well.
When you get money, there will be corruption.
$670 MILLION???
"Swollen and engorged endowments" :-D LOL
lol, the only way this could have been more humorous is if it were delivered as a musical... ala "Ta-em America" or "'Buy! Buy!' Birdie".
Masterpiece! ❤❤❤
More like Barely Even Weekly with Andrew Heaton.
I know you're very busy with your outstanding podcasts and engagements, but I would really like to see more of your anchor/skit stuff like this. Its genuinely really great.
Why are we funding for profit institutions who charge very inflated prices to attend to get a piece of paper so that you can work in retail jobs because the diploma is worthless?
there was a lot of jokes in here but "dolphins are degenerate" was NOT one of them. sure theyre cute and smart but degenerate is a very apt description
You wot m8?
@@MajorT0m Dolphins have been known to rape just about anything they can. They aren't the only animal to do it, but you still want to be careful around them in particular. They can also drown you.
dolphins need to be locked up in atlantis
Very simple, harvard has produced lots of great things including transplants and the science for the polio vaccine. Even Milton Friedman thought that education had positive neighborhood effects. This again convinces me that libertarians are nuts.
"Seize all university endowments--the crystallization of privilege--and distribute the money as reparations" - Michael Malice
Very excellent. Greetings from NYC!