OPINION:
For years now it has been obvious that the U.S. has been subsidizing most of its own serious problems. The most egregious example is the money spent on government grants to education, including $400 million to Columbia University (“Columbia reels as Trump opens war on campus antisemitism with arrest, canceled grants,” Web, March 10).
Multiply this by the number of colleges and universities receiving government money and you have an astronomical contribution to the national debt — with negative results.
Such largesse has produced graduates who cannot read, calculate or even think straight, but can interfere in ignorant ways with the common good. Some of them are in Congress.
In short, we have subsidized mental and moral illiteracy, among other things.
Columbia is just the tip of the iceberg.
ELIZABETH WARD NOTTRODT
Baltimore, Maryland
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