College students who are old enough to claim independence still receive Pell Grants and low interest loans in large part due to programs put in place during the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, a real Man of the People.
Younger people will not be the recipients of such benefits as a result of total Republican control without any checks or balances.
How will the younger group of individuals pay for college costs, which increase by leaps and bounds every fall semester thanks to Federal rollbacks? The way I had to: Enlistment.
It's a time-honored Republican plot - keep the public school system financially floundering, thus middle- and working-class students won't be college ready. Raise university expenses arbitrarily high by cutting funding; those who are neither privileged nor able to score a scholarship can't afford to attend anything better than community college.
The frustrated youth of America will then do what I did back in 1970 when faced with the prospect of no money for college and a dead-end working future - get a higher education through military service.
Providing it's possible to stay alive, or at least in one piece.
No, my friends and family - and I know this extends to clear thinking people not just across America but all around the World - do not fear al Qaeda or Hezbollah or Hamas.
What we fear are Herr Oberst Karl Rove and his playbook based upon tactics utilized by the Third Reich.
We fear the power and secrecy of Dark Lord the Dick Cheney and his oil cronies, his Halliburton cohorts, and their treasonous behind closed doors energy plots.
We fear the lies spread at every diplomatic meeting by Condoleezza Rice, who has acted not as an ambassador of goodwill for Americans but as a shill for King George's policies of bombastic global arm-twisting.
We fear Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld, who has wasted the finest military machine in World history to satisfy his own egomaniacal schemes, while forcing the best commanders to leave our services, promoting into their positions politicians in uniform who couldn't find a battlefield with both hands if it were up their asses.
We fear the people who vote the way they're instructed to vote by the pulpit, no matter what the cost to our Nation and our precious freedoms.
We fear, more than anything, the megalomaniac who was illegally placed in office as the most powerful person on the planet. There can be no denial it was an incompetent person wrongly elevated into that position by a handful of individuals who considered their own righteousness supercilious to the rights of not just all Americans, but of everything the United States of America had stood for 224 years prior to December, 2000.
I can't even bring myself to call King George XLIII a man.
Just what is it do you suppose George sees when looking into a mirror?
L'Shalom, my Friends!
© 2006, The Lone Star Iconoclast
Younger people will not be the recipients of such benefits as a result of total Republican control without any checks or balances.
How will the younger group of individuals pay for college costs, which increase by leaps and bounds every fall semester thanks to Federal rollbacks? The way I had to: Enlistment.
It's a time-honored Republican plot - keep the public school system financially floundering, thus middle- and working-class students won't be college ready. Raise university expenses arbitrarily high by cutting funding; those who are neither privileged nor able to score a scholarship can't afford to attend anything better than community college.
Providing it's possible to stay alive, or at least in one piece.
No, my friends and family - and I know this extends to clear thinking people not just across America but all around the World - do not fear al Qaeda or Hezbollah or Hamas.
What we fear are Herr Oberst Karl Rove and his playbook based upon tactics utilized by the Third Reich.
We fear the power and secrecy of Dark Lord the Dick Cheney and his oil cronies, his Halliburton cohorts, and their treasonous behind closed doors energy plots.
We fear the lies spread at every diplomatic meeting by Condoleezza Rice, who has acted not as an ambassador of goodwill for Americans but as a shill for King George's policies of bombastic global arm-twisting.
We fear Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld, who has wasted the finest military machine in World history to satisfy his own egomaniacal schemes, while forcing the best commanders to leave our services, promoting into their positions politicians in uniform who couldn't find a battlefield with both hands if it were up their asses.
We fear the people who vote the way they're instructed to vote by the pulpit, no matter what the cost to our Nation and our precious freedoms.
We fear, more than anything, the megalomaniac who was illegally placed in office as the most powerful person on the planet. There can be no denial it was an incompetent person wrongly elevated into that position by a handful of individuals who considered their own righteousness supercilious to the rights of not just all Americans, but of everything the United States of America had stood for 224 years prior to December, 2000.
I can't even bring myself to call King George XLIII a man.
Just what is it do you suppose George sees when looking into a mirror?
L'Shalom, my Friends!
© 2006, The Lone Star Iconoclast
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