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To: hal ogen

When I graduated High Schoolin 1960 there was no doubt in my mind that college wasn’t in my future.

My parents did not have money and they had taught me responsibility, that bills had to be paid and borrowing money wasn’t the way to make it in life.

10 days out of High School I was on my way to Ft, Knox for basic training.

Todays kids have been brought up by parents who think nothing of borrowing and live off credit, so they start right out borrowing $50,000 to $100,000 to continue their education.

Now that’s fine for them,but then they are saddled with the debt, and they cry about it. I have paid taxes my whole life, I got my kids through Community College, it was all I could afford, they worked while they attended.

Still paying taxes for schools for other people’s kids to get through High School, why should I have to pay to get them through college?Public school should be paid for, I don’t have a problem with that, but those who elect to go to college need to pay for it themselves.


8 posted on 01/07/2012 5:17:15 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer
Still paying taxes for schools for other people’s kids to get through High School, why should I have to pay to get them through college?

Because, Citizen, there are still students who graduate the K-12 system who are not knee-jerk liberal automatons, and they need the additional indoctrination!

(/sarc, sorta)

Besides, without a year or two of remedial courses, how can the gross failures of the secondary education system be covered up?

11 posted on 01/07/2012 5:32:19 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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When I graduated High Schoolin 1960 there was no doubt in my mind that college wasn’t in my future.
Amen brother. I graduated 1966, went off to Parris Island and then on to VN. Eventually used the GI bill and part time work to get through college.
If I learned nothing else it's that America is the greatest country in the world - and the only person stopping you from succeeding is yourself.
I am sooooooo sick of today's whiners, the OWS scum and all the other losers with their hands out I could puke.
35 posted on 01/07/2012 6:45:09 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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