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To: ggersh who wrote (89299)	10/27/2008 4:43:14 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

All I am saying is that to just say let the poor and starving fend for themselves is a barbaric idea. And one many held during the great depression. Governemnt Social programs were still sort of a new idea. People can beleive what they will, but the NEW DEAL, strengthend unions, insured bank accounts (FDIC), regulated the banking idustry, gave us social security, unemployment insurance and made work programs, like the Hoover dam, to provide emplyoment which was running over 25% and people were starving. Well our infrastructure is a shambles and some work programs might help. I expect unemplyment to get much worse. I was very poor going through college. I often worked all night and went to classes straight from work. But college was cheaper then; and in those days we had work study programs to help kids pay their way through college. I worked for the Youth Science Institute teaching kids the ecology of the Sierra and teaching them to climb. That and a few student loans allowed me to pay my way all the way through graduate school at the U of Wash. We need to get back to the New Deal; rebuild the unions, help the middle class and make sure any kid willing to work and wants to go to college can. It is good for the individual, and good for society, to ensure we educate our children. My two daughters cost me and my ex several hundred thousand dollars for their education. And as the competition at Berkeley was so tough we didn't feel we should ask them to also have to work (other one went to the U of Oregon. So what has happend to make colleges so expensive? And what has happened to our great country?