By Wayne Allyn Root
Go to Google and type in “Who is biggest land- owner in New York City?” I dare you. Guess the answer.
Columbia University.
They are the largest private landowner in New York City, significantly outstripping other institutions. This isn’t some MAGA conspiracy theory. This is a fact directly from ultra-liberal Google.
But wait, it gets better.
Columbia also has a $14.8 billion endowment fund sitting in the bank (and I’m guessing invested in stocks, bonds and hedge funds). That’s $14.8 billion dollars- with a B.
Wait, it gets better.
Columbia charges about $90,000 a year to parents, so their little spoiled-brat, radical, America-hating, communist children can attend the university.
Wait, it gets better.
Columbia U is a “non-profit.” So, they pay little or no taxes. How can anyone claim to be “non-profit” when they charge $90,000 a year to attend? How can they be “non-profit” when they have $14.8 billion of funds (ie profits) in an endowment fund?
Now we come to the biggest question of the century…
Why does an institution that charges $90,000 a year to attend, and has over $14.8 billion in funds sitting in the bank, and owns over 200 buildings- making them the largest land-owner in NYC, need the federal government to give them billions of dollars???
What a Bernie Madoff-sized scam!
But what makes this story all the more galling, and ridiculous, and INSANE, is that Columbia is the most radical communist college in America (sorry, Berkeley, but you’re now number two).
Columbia not only teaches students to hate America, and embrace extreme, radical, communist beliefs, and hate Republicans, and hate Trump with red hot “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” but they now also coddle Jew-hating extremists who protest, riot, take over campus buildings, intimidate and threaten the lives of Jewish students (whose parents are paying $90,000 per year), and chant “Death to Jews” and “Death to Israel” and of course (no surprise) “Death to America.”
So why would our federal government give them a dime?
President Trump, trust me, the radical students at Columbia hate you, and I’m certain root for your death or assassination (more on that later). So, it’s time to send a message:
“SCREW COLUMBIA.”
Cut Columbia off at the knees. Not just the $400 million in federal funding you just cut, ALL their other funding. Because they get billions more in the way of federal grants.
How do I know? Because today it became public knowledge that Harvard gets $9 billion in federal grants. Trust me, Columbia can’t be far behind.
Harvard has an endowment of well over $50 billion- the largest in the world. So, why does Harvard need $9 billion in federal funding?
All the Ivy League colleges and elite universities have billon dollar endowments…and charge $80K to $90K per year to attend, and pay virtually no taxes. Because, of course, they’re “non-profits.” You know, like a church.
Except they radicalize students, teach them to hate America, Americans (certainly white Americans), capitalism, and now, to hate Israel and Jews too. Isn’t that lovely? With the support of your tax dollars.
Mr. President, it’s time to end the scam.
These students, and professors, and Deans, all hate you…they hate America…and they hate Republicans the most. And now they allow their students to preach “hate speech” against one race- Jews and the Jewish state of Israel.
Why are we (the taxpayers) paying for that? Subsidizing that? They have billions in assets- let them spend their own money.
Let me close by telling you one story that defines my Columbia U experience from 44 years ago.
On March 30, 1981, I was sitting in my Columbia U. Political Science class, late in the day. It was the largest classroom at Columbia- about 200 students, taught by Professor Esther Fuchs. Suddenly the doors smashed open, a student ran in, out of breath, and announced to the class, “President Reagan has been shot. Assassinated. They’ve killed Reagan.”
Obviously, that student got the facts mangled, but there had been assassination attempt on Reagan, and he was shot, and badly wounded. I assume the exaggeration was wishful fantasy on that student’s behalf- he wished Reagan dead.
Can you guess the response from my 200 Columbia classmates at the news that (they thought) Reagan had been murdered?
STANDING OVATION.
Wild cheering. Fist pumping. Shouts of joy- “YES, they killed Reagan!” It was like a New Years Eve celebration. I’ll never forget (or forgive). I walked to the bathroom, sat on the floor, and cried. Not just because I thought my hero was murdered, but because of the shock of seeing my college classmates cheering for the murder of a conservative- like me and my parents.
My communist classmates wished me and my family dead too.
That was Columbia University 44 years ago. Nothing has changed- except now it’s much worse, much more radical, much more extreme. Trust me Mr. President, the students are rooting and cheering for your death right now.
And now as a new wrinkle- they hate Jews and want to wipe out the Jewish race too.
So, cut Columbia off at the knees. Starve them. Take away all their federal funding. 100%. They have billions of dollars- make them pay their own bills, like everyone else.
And ditto for Harvard and all the other elite universities too. They’re all filthy rich, they don’t need or deserve welfare, paid by taxpayers.
Thanks to the awful Biden economy, and Biden inflation, middle class taxpayers are struggling to survive. Why should we be paying welfare to billion-dollar institutions?
Let alone institutions who teach or allow hatred for America, capitalism, white Americans, or Jews.
Screw Columbia.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV at Noon ET on Saturdays and his video podcast “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” at Untamed Nation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET daily. His web site is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!
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