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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rarebird who wrote (159)	9/4/2000 12:46:33 PM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 10042

One of these candidates can and will try to revolutionize our education system, beyond the voucher system that is very unaffordable to majority of people. One key issue this election will bring forth is the seeds for the country's success in the next 50 years. IMHO, we are at an important crossroad in electing a president and vice president who understand the key to the future in health, education, and technology. We are fortunate to have such candidates to choose from. Let's see how much foresight we have. Elect the wrong one, and we'll be back the good old boys system again. Not greedy here, just looking to the future. Just looking at who and where the tax dollars are best trusted to allocate for health, education and welfare of the country.

To: Rarebird who wrote (159)	9/4/2000 5:59:09 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Moreover, a very good friend of mine (to this very day) had his father's social security benefits cut at the age of 23. He had been using this money since his father had passed away as a young boy for his college and graduate school education As a guy who put himself through college by holding two jobs and taking out students, let me be the first to cry you a river of tears.. And one of those jobs involved tutoring students who were recipients of scholarships, and fully 50% of which hardly studied their lessons, or showed up for tutoring (although it was mandatory). So not only was I carrying 18-21 credits of my own, I was having to refresh my memory by reading their textbooks as well. And then on top of that, I discovered that one of my student's scholarships was because she was a "1st generation college attendee", meaning she was the first in her immediate family to attend any kind of university. Well, imagine that I told myself... if I had known about that scholarship, I could have had one of them myself and could have save a fortune in tuition... Yeah... let me cry your friend a river....