Congrats on working hard and making it through college and making a better life and career for yourself and family.
We have lost the idea that college students can or should work their way through college. Yes college is expensive, which is one reason why many students used to work part-time jobs while in college. Now there is an attitude that students shouldn’t be working while in college, but should be entitled to endless amounts of aid because college is costly.
Amen, I did the same thing and worked two jobs during college.
With the influx of “student loans” came the increases in tuition.
Similar to the medical profession. Increased insurance benefits, increase in prices.
With the cost today of paying college, I don’t know how anyone can cover the cost.
Paying for socialist profs like ayers, dorn, etc. is breaking the system.
You write: “When I went to college it was 100% on my dime - no student loans. I worked a full time job...”
But, you see, under ‘bama’s plan, the student won’t have enough time to go to school AND work enough hours to be able to do things like, oh, eat and pay bills, because he intends to make all students, starting in middle school and up, give, to start, at least 100 yours a year to “volunteer” service.
This is something the young people haven’t caught onto yet, not the very real probability of a draft. They’re had that simmering in the wings for some time now.
Besides, how else is he going to fill the ranks of his Personal Praetorian Guard - aka National Security Force that he plans that will be “JUST AS POWERFUL, JUST AS STRONG, JUST AS WELL FUNDED” as the military.
Here’s the number of military as of last year, most stationed around the world.
2007 (August) 1,380,082
Picture over a million new “NATIONAL POLICE” - OVER 26,500 THOUSAND PER STATE. I guess that would be enough to clamp down on anyone who dared raise their voice. Sounds more like a “Praetorian Guard”.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y