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To: Mark Adams who wrote (3227)	10/19/2001 8:52:13 PM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 24758

I'd say the biggest problem I saw was very few kids knew financial was available. This is a very true statement. Some do know and unfortunately some parents can afford the cost know how to use the system to take an advantage that is not truly needed so costs continue to rise. I think it's possible to get a fine education at the public schools, if one applies oneself. Of course, as Goodwill Hunting suggested, it's also possible to get a good education at a public library. Life is change and that includes perpetual education. life is a constant process of information the add to and the supplement and extend the base which is only laid for ease of interpretation. The day you think you have it all down pat usually proves itself to be yesterdays idiot theory. I don't know, I wonder how and and and we begin the ever quest the never bored and ever empty, on our way to being filled.

To: Mark Adams who wrote (3227)	10/20/2001 1:22:24 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 24758

Nobody works their way through college on minimum wage. The friends I knew who worked the summer to pay for school got jobs that paid double or triple minimum wage, not hard to find if you don't mind a job that involves hard work. My husband hires unskilled labor at $10-15 an hour for construction and has a hard time finding enough people (yes he hires women as well). If you make 15/hr and work 40 hours for 12 weeks in the summer you make $7200 before taxes. Even if you live at home you can't cover tuition at a private school (15k). Now one guy I went to college with who worked in the summer to pay for tuition had a warehouse job at $7/hour. That's $3360 for the summer (he lived at home). Our tuition started at $2700 and was $3000/year by the time we graduated. The tuition was low enough for him to work his way through with an unskilled job. The tuition now is 25k, 15k if you live at home. This was my primary point about tuition rising faster than an American's ability to pay for it. The only reason it can do that is because it is subsidized, both by the government grants and by the foreign students who always pay full boat. I'm sure you still don't believe that in the effort to help poor people afford college the government actually helped make it less affordable for everyone, but this always happens when the government gets involved.