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To: NickSE who wrote (3562)	7/21/2003 8:39:45 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793549

Dems have totally destroyed California..... UC eyes surcharge for rich students washtimes.com California's premier university system is considering charging rich students more tuition to offset deep funding cuts resulting from the state's $38 billion budget deficit. The Board of Regents of the University of California examined a proposal for a surcharge on wealthy students at a meeting Thursday. The university would be the first in the country to target wealthy students with a surcharge. The proposed fee would force undergraduate students with family incomes exceeding $90,000 to pay as much as $3,000 more to attend one of the university's nine campuses. It is expected to affect 58,194 of the university's 160,000 undergraduate students. "I think that is outrageous," said Republican state Sen. Dick Ackerman, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. "There is already a significant program of financial aid and scholarships for people who can't afford to go there. You shouldn't be charging rich people more just because you can." The UC regents were forced last week to raise tuition 25 percent across the board to compensate for a budget shortfall that had already caused the university to cut spending by $360 million. The tuition increases were preceded by a 10 percent increase in December and might be followed by a 5 percent increase. ...cont'd...

To: NickSE who wrote (3562)	7/21/2003 11:12:23 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793549

<<<<Gentle reader, I give you the next Vice-President of the United States: Condolezza Rice. >>>> Thus, of course, setting the necessary groundwork for her to run for president in 2008. My, but it must be very difficult to be a Democrat these days <g>.

To: NickSE who wrote (3562)	7/22/2003 12:27:35 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793549

Unfortunately, for the Democrats, this thought doesn't seem to be all by its lonesome out there....Some of my liberal friends are beginning to think this way.... >>>>>>>I am unwilling to consign thousands of my countrymen to death in order to bring the current crop of Democrats back into power. Call me cynical and unsupportive of a Democrat's right to hold any sort of power at this time, but that's just the way I feel. Face it, they haven't been stepping up to the bar and making us feel very secure about the future, have they? <<<<<<<<<<