Ive probably been ranting on about this several times before, but I'll rant away again anyway.
From this summer on, students will have to pay an extra fee of 500 Euros at german Unis. Some people say like: "That's not much money, most people have a few Euros on their accounts and with a little work you'll scrape the money together, besides, paying money for education might not be the worst way of spending it, so what the Hey!"
There are 2 major flaws in this argumentation:
1. Together with the extra fee, Unis will get major cuts in their budgets, so the student-tax will only fill those holes. So basically, you're not paying the education itself, you fill up the financial holes in the countrie's budget.
2. States like Hamburg already announced that the fee will go up to about 2500 Euros, maybe 3000. Now who can pay so much money?
It makes me even more mad to think that for the politicians, there wont be a problem, they have all the money the need to send their kids to any Uni they want. Classic case of politics by rich people, for rich people.
The saddest part is that our student representatives dont manage to do anything. I just spent 20 minutes listening to some weird girl reading facts from a sheet of paper I already knew, then some other guy tried to pull off a revolutionary speech which was plain horrible. I know that today's youths arent too interested in politics, but there are reasons for their despair.. and there they had their little revolt, people screamed "booh!" and blew their whistles and in the end everyone went home! ARGH!
Through the windows of the main mensa you could see that it was as crowded as ever. Well, talk about lack of interest in politics. Anyway, Im tempted to write them an email and complain about how stupid they are.