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Old 12-21-2009, 07:43 PM
 
Location: DFW
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Returning from San Fransisco this week I was reading an article about the tuition increases at Berkley. There have been student protests about the 32% increase up to about $12k per semester.

It did say that any family earning less that $75k a year basically got free scholarships and payed no fees. Seems to me that the families earning over $75k a year was not only paying for their kids schooling but paying for the lower incomes families kid.

With the spiraling cost of higher education would it not benefit all Americans to have College Education Reform ? If we could get every poor kid in college whether they wanted to go or not surely we have a better educated people.

Education will be next on the Democrat Reform List for the better of all who cannot afford.
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Returning from San Fransisco this week I was reading an article about the tuition increases at Berkley. There have been student protests about the 32% increase up to about $12k per semester.

It did say that any family earning less that $75k a year basically got free scholarships and payed no fees. Seems to me that the families earning over $75k a year was not only paying for their kids schooling but paying for the lower incomes families kid.

With the spiraling cost of higher education would it not benefit all Americans to have College Education Reform ? If we could get every poor kid in college whether they wanted to go or not surely we have a better educated people.

Education will be next on the Democrat Reform List for the better of all who cannot afford.
Would this almost forced attendance at college cost more than it is worth for people who don't want to go? One of my sons went to a community school for two years but never would have taken a scholastic course of study. The other one had the money but no desire to go to college. Wouldn't that have been a tremendous waste of money and their time.

How about Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Both of them started to college and failed to finish one semester because they just didn't want to be there.

Do you know how far left the community of Berkley and the UC at Berkley really are? They have the least learned grads in the history and political science areas as has been proven by tests.

Berkley is the place that shut down military recruiting stations because they just didn't think they should operate there.
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:24 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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I don't think so. I think the next big reform to come along will be immigration reform after the 2010 elections.
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:28 PM
 
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We should just make all private schools like Harvard, Princeton, Stanford into public schools with public wages... I wonder if then, these liberal professors would support such a liberal move... hahaha..
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:29 PM
 
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The next reform will be Death Care for those of us who are approaching 65.
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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The next reform will be Death Care for those of us who are approaching 65.
Couldn't help putting a black hole spin on an honest question, could you?
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Old 12-21-2009, 09:18 PM
 
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The next reform will be Death Care for those of us who are approaching 65.
No -- that's all part of the health plan they're doing right now.

The next is a massive amnesty and "family reunification" so that the families of illegals will be invited to join them here in this country. No matter the unemployment rate, the government will assist them.
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Old 12-21-2009, 10:17 PM
 
Location: California
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Death care is awesome. I am all for that.
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Old 12-22-2009, 01:34 PM
 
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Death care is awesome. I am all for that.
Only if it's for our current group of politicians and lobbyists.
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