Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 30, 2022

Well, it won’t work because (good) nut butter is too thick; paint stores never let customers use the shakers and grocery stores are never going to hire someone just to mix up nut butter; and why is natural nut butter fancy when it only has nuts (or peanuts) and maybe salt – that seems rather plain (but very good).

I miss Caulfield’s Classic Literature Character costume.

And the old people made college (in the US) so expensive by… donating to their alma mater?

Have to question Caulfield’s conclusion. Lots of reason college educations became so expensive, few of them to do with actually improving the quality of instruction. Massive building campaigns come to mind as one item.

Become a retirement fund advisor. They’ve been shaking my IRA for the last year, or so.

Only old people that made college so expensive are those in government and those running the colleges.

You might also be able to fulfill some of the community service hours by spending the next week cleaning the splattered peanut butter off of EVERYTHING (and everybody) at the grocery store. You might pick up some people skills as well. So, ya know, making lemonade and all.

Don’t you realize how expensive running a football team is or a basketball team. Now colleges had to run BOTH and it takes a load of dough. And there are those pesky side expenses of providing an education that just adds to expenses. They are bound by regulations to have to provide them no matter how useless they are to the sports programs.

Politicians, then.

Sorry. Won’t work.

A lot of them have gotten very very rich from insider trading and various money laundering schemes, but even so, that’s not rich enough.

Besides, who is going to get the money out of them?

Maybe if you included the nitwits who voted them in, that’d be enough.

But you won’t able to get the money out of them, either.

Expensive college tuition seems to be a uniquely American problem.

After climbing the ladder of no/low tuition college education, why did the old people—a.k.a. Boomers—pull it up?

Well, as with most bad things in our country right now, it all started with Reagan…

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/26/student-loan-debt-american-malignancy-born-ronald-reagan

When I graduated from high school in 1962, my husband and I bought a three bedroom, two bath house and two decent cars within the next few years, on what he was making on a job he got right out of high school. Most of the guys I graduated with did the same. I didn’t work, few women did, and those who did usually chose to do so. Now, it isn’t really a choice for most women, unless they don’t mind living in poverty. When I decided to become a teacher, my first quarter’s tuition at Southern Illinois University was $79, and we rented any books we needed for $20. Anyone could go to college with just a part time job to pay for it, and without piling up a lifetime of debt. Since that time, the GNP has skyrocketed and the American worker is acknowledged to be the most productive in the world. But, most of the value they are producing is going to the top 1%. who use that money to buy politicians who make laws that insure that they keep making most of the money, which they can use to buy more politicians, who will write more laws so they can make more money to buy more politicians and etc etc etc.The Middle Class standard of living is declining, and a college graduate hasn’t anywhere near as easy a time as we had with just high school. We produce the highest quality goods on earth, and we can’t afford to buy them. A young person told me a while back that I couldn’t really understand why their generation was so angry. I do.

Eliminate college sports. Expensive stadiums, coaches paid millions, who pays for that?

The people who made college expensive are the politicians who kept taking people’s money to pay for it. Colleges can charge whatever they want because taxpayers keep footing the bill, whether they want to or not. Taking money from people who worked hard to get it won’t make things better. It will just make things more expensive. Also college is a scam anyway

Cans of coconut milk!

Ouch!

Mallett has finally managed to seriously peeve me.

The old people made it expensive??? That would be stupid!… they are the ones paying for it for their kids!!… or for their grand-children!!! ( the younger generation of parents might be making more money than the grandparents did, but they ar not doing as well as the grandparents!

Schools did away with trade classes years ago and we’re paying for it now with a shortage of blue-collar workers.

Ha! Caulfield makes an Okay Boomer put-down and he’s still in grade school! Get that boy a YouTube channel!

It ain’t us old people that made college so expensive.

I wonder how many leftists recognize that it is the old people among their tribe that is primarily responsible for the expensive college costs noted at the end of the strip.

And how, pray tell, did old people make college expensive?

Let me guess. An old person insulted you. Good thing it wasn’t a minority or you’d be out of a job.