In my example, the bonds to pay for new construction were guaranteed entirely with non-taxpayer money.

Except the money they got from this taxpayer that paid for my kids' education at IU.

Make no mistake–there's fat in the IU budget. Galore. But the construction side of things is a different story. They cleaned up their act on that a long time ago.

This is just a numbers game they play. IU sits on a billion, but wants the state to pay for this and that. The state says OK, which allows IU to use less of its billions, and raising tuition, to build the buildings. Not only that, they buildings they build are ridiculous, especially the new campus center. Why the hell is half the building an open air, five story atrium? When the first opened the building in the winter, it was freezing cold at the floor level, extremely hot at the upper levels. There is nothing green about this building at all. Wasted space, horrible climate control, etc.. But it is what someone wanted, so it gets rubber stamped.

“As for Ivy Tech winning the “community college” battle, if there ever was one, are you stoned? On no planet is that true.”

We may not have a “community college,” but Ivy Tech won the non-traditional student battle. The amount of weekend college classes down at IUPUI has dropped significantly. I have heard a few reasons why this is:
#1: IUPUI, and IU as a whole, wanted to be thought of as a traditional university. Bloomington had that identity, but not IUPUI. Having a bunch of working adults taking two classes a semester after work on on the weekends didn't build the bond they want between the student and the school. My guess is that they figure the stronger the bond, the more likely they will donate money to the school later in life??
#2: Last year, IUPUI's full-time student population grew to the largest it has ever been, while the part-time student number dropped. My understanding is that the state is no longer writing checks based solely on enrollment, but now they are factoring in retention. Well, you are more likely to retain a full-time teenage student than a part-time adult with kids and a full-time job to deal with. All you have to do is head down to IUPUI and see how dead it is now on the weekends, just a handful of classes are held on the weekends now.

“All them “social” programs got us into this mess, so we need to go back to social-Darwinism to make everything right.”

Funny how the leftist want to force the teachings of Darwin when it comes to history, but heaven forbid we actually put his teachings into practice. Hey, even I don't want people starving. It doesn't really matter though. We have too many 24 year olds who have four kids, all with different daddies, and who will continue to pop out more and more mouths to feed. All the while, my friends who are actually productive can only afford two kids. Eventually, demanding all the productive people's money is going to force their kids to see that being productive is being a slave, thus many of the off-spring of the productive will choose the poor, inner city life because to be productive is to be a slave given how much debt you have to take on to be productive (college costs) and the amount of the fruits of your labor are stolen to pay a six-figure wages to K-12 administrators. There is a breaking point. We saw it with the property tax issue a couple years ago. The need for that money didn't go away, the state just spread the costs across all 92 counties (Thanks Mitch) to prevent a damn riot and white, rich liberal flight to the suburbs.