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 Message 3781 
 Tim Richardson to Lee Lofaso 
 Re: Free College Tuition 
 19 Feb 16 07:25:40 
 
 > Hello Tim,

 >  TR> See...some clown goes to college on `government' (taxpayers) money,
 >  TR> gets a job an makes a decent salary, and thinks `...oh well! the
 >  TR> democrats will pass `student loan forgiveness' before long anyway, so
 >  TR> why pay anything? It'll all be free!'

 >  TR> It's time some of them were held accountable.

 > Over the last thirty years, college tuition has increased
 > by over 1,120 percent.  That is according to the Wall Street
 > Journal.  I'll take those numbers as being credible.

 > The cost of college tuition has increased three times
 > faster than the consumer-price index.  And twice as fast
 > as medical care.  That is in the last ten years.
 
That's because the government is footing the bill for a large number of those
`going' on student loans.

Any time you get the government (make that read `taxpayers') paying out money
to fund something...outfits are gonna milk it for everything they can get.

My anger gets raised whenever I see some high-falutin professor or in
industrialist get in front of  microphone and start off by saying how honest
and upright their `opponent' or competitor `ought' to be...and then without
batting an eye start talking about how `costs' are going up so their prices or
tuition is going up as well! 

A good example of that was the `$600 ash trays they were installing in jet
aircraft built for the military. That would have made me, as a congressman
on a military purchasing committee, demand a close scrutiny of any and all
government contracts set up for the military. They probably never did. Or if
the did it was quickly glossed over because the `taxpayer' is the biggest 
cash cow in the nation!
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