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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Dude, thanks for making my point for me. Of course if you're somewhere between middle class and rich going to school is easy as pie. You really think for the family making a combined income of $50,000/year that its going to be as easy for them to send their kids to school? Take out loans you say? Well those only take half of most people's adult lives to pay back.
I guess congrats on having a free ride through school. Some of us weren't that lucky, and had to work pretty ####ing hard and make some sacrifices to get it done. The fact that your sample of 7 people shows they all had an easy time getting through this means you have a poor sample size, not that that's the way it can be for most people.
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By the time that my family had put my two sisters through university and law school for one and medical school for the other there was nothing left for me when I came home from the Military.
A student loan is not a great sacrifice if it doubles + your earning potential, there a scholarships and bursaries for lower income families. I don't see the argument that university is off limits to the poor unless its free, there are avenues.
Even after I got my student loans which back in the early 90's totaled around the $30,000 mark there were programs for forgiveness of portions of the loan dependant on factors.
If you want to in this country you can go to school. If $70.00 per year is preventing someone from going school or even a $500.00 per year increase as proposed earlier by the government then I think that my first thought is that I have to question how serious someone is about university education in exchange for a higher paying job.
Sometimes the juice has to be worth the squeeze.
On a side note with the rioters. I believe strongly that if your one of the rioters busted for the more violent acts or destroying property, you should be automatically expelled from your school and banned from any post secondary institution in this country for a period of 5 years.