[karajorma]

Yes but given that people have paid tax for years under the proviso that this money would be used to give their children a university education it is rather taking liberties to then suddenly turn around and say "Actually, we're not doing that any more, but we're not going to cut your taxes either"

Which is where I'm going with this one.

[Flipside]

They're students.
They're protesting.

I've seen students get physical over far less than this, which is important. There's both positive and negative sides when dealing with the phrase 'overt Police presence' at demonstrations, particularly student ones.

[Liberator]

Kara, what you do is elect leaders who won't rob the pot to pay for some pork fat program in an attempt to ellicit votes from the people said program benefits when said program runs out of money.  If I took money from my utilities budget to pay for trip to Vegas and my lights get cut off, I don't have the benefit of raising taxes to cover the overage, neither should government.

And, yes to Bob and Klaustrophobia, that's what I meant.  A middle class lifestyle isn't a right, but you have a truckload of politicians telling people that it is.  The only right is that government get out of the way to allow me to attain said lifestyle.