End of the middle class welfare state- University education

There is news today that the coalition intends to either raise the cap on university tuition or make students pay 'market' rates on the loans. All well and good- not that there should have been a cap in the first place and if we are going to have commercial rates on student loans, why not allow 'the market' to compete in this , rather than the state monopoly of the student loans company (which the same government wants to give to the private sector- so look, now we have a private monopoly!).

As I said in my previous post, the current coalition is continuing the gradual retirement of the sections of the welfare state for the middle classes, as started by Labour. I mentioned that a great part of this welfare regime was the university education system (if I can call it a system). As many labour politicians (neglecting their own Oxbridge and private schooling roots, which was in the 1960s paid by the  poorer parents  of the very same poor people they supposedly defend!!) have said "why should the dustbin man - or refuse collection operative in the PC vernacular- pay for middle class bods to go to university?" (as the dustbin man will never earn as much as the career graduate).  Of course this rhetorical question also leaves out the socialist agenda of the past 13 years, of equality of outcome for everyone ,leaving the whole degree devalued as a result, but let's leave that out of the argument for now.

The reply to the socialist question  is of course, why should the graduate, contributing far more overtime in taxation than the degree cost in the first place, be paying for the NHS and the other social services that the dustbin man uses? Thus this gets back to the universalism inbred in the welfare state- once one benefit for one part of the community is ditched, it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the vast array of taxes required to support this massive state regime.

True, there isn't enough money in the state pot to pay for all of the current undergraduates (who have grown and grown, thanks to the social engineering policies of  the socialists), some of whom do study stupid, stupid subjects, which are not really fitting the title of Bachelor of Arts/Science. So what should be done ?  I will write these down, on the next post.