Do you not think it matters in a discussion when people are complaining about the cost of attending college?
That's a bit forward but I'll humor you. University of North Carolina I don't pay full tuition though because I'm on partial scholarship through the research grant I'm working under. I use student loans to help make ends meet with health insurance, medical bills, rent, etc...
The school had it's own health clinics for students. I had roommates. And I was really poor all the time.
One thing that helped is I went to summer school. I got a few credits that way and all the kids went home for the summer so the rents were cheaper, etc.
Nate, I agree completely. Angry young people. Same thing happened in London recently. But who can blame them? The country is in a mess and there's no leadership to get us out of it.
well, the thing is Obama was supposed to bring hope and change and destroy the "old bonds". young people and the youth movement propelled him into office. now that they are disenfranchised, they felt cheated. they do not want to admit their mistakes so they blame a convenient enemy, "the rich" for all of their own personal problems. its the rich's fault they chose majors in $45k a year colleges that would get them no where in life.
I also think this is a natural result of the class warfare Obama championed. The idea that wealthy people are evil and their money has to be redistributed to the poor... On the other hand, I wonder if any of those protesters suddenly inherited 100 million dollars if they would continue to protest or set themselves up like those they are protesting against?
Someone hacked the Washington Post again? http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ual-suspects/2011/10/11/gIQAVgYPdL_story.html By the time they got to Woodstock, they were half a million strong. But by the time they assembled on Freedom Plaza on Tuesday morning to plan the day’s civil disobedience, they numbered only 53. Attempting to emulate the Occupy Wall Street protests, Washington activists and some out-of-town guests set themselves the lofty goal of occupying the Hart Senate Office Building. “We are there to shut the place down!” organizer David Swanson told his small band of followers. But how to do this with only a few dozen demonstrators? Well, Swanson said, they could push all the buttons on the elevators — the way naughty children sometimes do in apartment buildings. “There are people who are wanting to go into the elevators and fill them and not get out and push all the buttons,” he said. “If you like that, do it.”
