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   From: senorchico@byteme.net   
      
   "Leland Milton Goldblatt PhD"  wrote in message   
   news:961a7d6b.0406191827.7f5772cf@posting.google.com...   
   > Bush's gift to college graduates: $5,500 of extra student debt.   
   > College education is not only important for financial   
   > stability-education is the very backbone of democracy. And we need   
   > much, much more of that-not less. But the Bush administration and   
   > Republicans in the House don't seem to get the message. The   
   > president's latest act of budget cutting slashes education funding. It   
   > will reduce the amount of federal funding for students eligible for   
   > financial aid. And the implications reach far beyond the money.   
   >   
   > It's that time. And I'm not talking about cicadas. It's graduation   
   > time, and all across the country, high school seniors are tossing   
   > their mortarboards into the air and heading off to face a future   
   > filled with hope, promise-and soaring college tuition and fees.   
   > It's one of the few areas in which the GOP really has taken the   
   > country to a higher level.   
   > The cost of a college education at a four-year public university has   
   > risen a devastating 35 percent since George W. Bush took office. He   
   > promised to be "the education president," but in what we now know to   
   > be the classic Bush bait and switch, he then did just the opposite,   
   > delivering a tax-slashing economic agenda that forced public colleges   
   > and universities in all but one state to raise tuition in 2003.   
      
   > Shalom,   
   > ---Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®   
      
   Of course the kids would notb have this kind of debt if morons with   
   edumacation degrees were paid what they were actually worth...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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