7th November 2003, 2:17 PM
"food stamps" ring a bell? And free lunches in schools for poor kids?
As for free college education... no, not even remotely. Poor kids really can only go to college if they go to really cheap schools and work a lot (and be lucky that their family doesn't need them to work full time), which really doesn't happen nearly as often as it should, or get a scholarship -- which is also quite rare. That'd be a good idea, but it'd cost lots of "money" and Republicans don't believe that poor people deserve a cent. Same reason they are fighting so hard to kill health care for the 40 million uninsured in this nation... that is a true national tragedy that kills lots of people every year and really should not continue. Its absurd that a policy as obviously good as that (and that the entire rest of the western world has gone much farther with) is still not accepted...
As for free college education... no, not even remotely. Poor kids really can only go to college if they go to really cheap schools and work a lot (and be lucky that their family doesn't need them to work full time), which really doesn't happen nearly as often as it should, or get a scholarship -- which is also quite rare. That'd be a good idea, but it'd cost lots of "money" and Republicans don't believe that poor people deserve a cent. Same reason they are fighting so hard to kill health care for the 40 million uninsured in this nation... that is a true national tragedy that kills lots of people every year and really should not continue. Its absurd that a policy as obviously good as that (and that the entire rest of the western world has gone much farther with) is still not accepted...
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