http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/ Richard Rosalion's personal blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:44:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-35 Roberta Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:22:15 +0000 http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-35 <p>If the students want the services, they will pay for them. Simple. These services include childcare or anything else they might currently access at a university but can easily access externally. University is an place of education. I didn't need childcare or any number of other surplus services that I was forced to pay for during my university days. I just wanted the degree. Now, at least students that just want the degree can pay for the degree and not have to pay anything additional. Name any service you like. If the students want them they can pay for them. Your debate has been lost. Move on.</p> If the students want the services, they will pay for them. Simple. These services include childcare or anything else they might currently access at a university but can easily access externally. University is an place of education. I didn’t need childcare or any number of other surplus services that I was forced to pay for during my university days. I just wanted the degree. Now, at least students that just want the degree can pay for the degree and not have to pay anything additional. Name any service you like. If the students want them they can pay for them. Your debate has been lost. Move on.

]]> http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-34 Richard Rosalion Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:41:33 +0000 http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-34 <p>Ah... so sad. Roberta doesn't even have the guts to post a real email address so I can reply directly.</p> Ah… so sad. Roberta doesn’t even have the guts to post a real email address so I can reply directly.

]]> http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-33 Richard Rosalion Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:33:31 +0000 http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-33 <p>I don't think there's ever been any argument about voluntary unionism part, it's the removal of funding from student services that has been the issue. While some <em>cough</em> Fielding <em>cough</em> think that services like childcare, counselling and healthcare aren't "essential" services, I still disagree. Again, if you truly agree with a "user pays" philosophy - how can you justify taxes on a federal or state level? Shouldn't all these "non-essential" government services like healthcare be user-pays, too?</p> I don’t think there’s ever been any argument about voluntary unionism part, it’s the removal of funding from student services that has been the issue. While some cough Fielding cough think that services like childcare, counselling and healthcare aren’t “essential” services, I still disagree. Again, if you truly agree with a “user pays” philosophy - how can you justify taxes on a federal or state level? Shouldn’t all these “non-essential” government services like healthcare be user-pays, too?

]]> http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-32 Roberta Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:32:48 +0000 http://sobriquet.net/2005/08/15/vsu-and-why-it-sucks/#comment-32 <p>The VSU has passed. Hooray!!! Now we all get a choice before the universities demand that we join a union we don't want to join. If individual students want the services, they'll pay for them by choice, not force. The No VSU argument has been flawed from the outset as, if the proponents believe they will lose the services, they are admitting that the majority of students prefer VSU. Now that same majority has won their freedom from enforced unionism. The left will have to pay for their silly anti-government stickers out of their own pockets now.</p> The VSU has passed. Hooray!!! Now we all get a choice before the universities demand that we join a union we don’t want to join. If individual students want the services, they’ll pay for them by choice, not force. The No VSU argument has been flawed from the outset as, if the proponents believe they will lose the services, they are admitting that the majority of students prefer VSU. Now that same majority has won their freedom from enforced unionism. The left will have to pay for their silly anti-government stickers out of their own pockets now.

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