Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Mr. Waffle King (the Dodger)
From: jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle )
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:07:44 PST
Organization: California State University, Bakersfield
Summary: lower-class can't get scholarships?  HA. 

In article <1992Nov3.192759.1086@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Dr. Norman J. LaFave <lafave
@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov> writes:
>In article <Bx5KKr.AHD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Don Wiggins,
>wiggins@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Gotta tell ya, doc, that I'm certainly better off than I was four years
>>ago, and I'd hardly describe myself as anything close to rich.  Of
>>course I worked my buns off in the process and also took it upon myself
>>to finish up a degree by attending night classes.  Does that make me one
>of the privileged few?
>
>No, it makes you one of the lucky individuals to have the
>opportunity to better themselves. For alot of Americans, these
>opportunities are nonexistent. Programs to allow
>individuals to better their station in life have become
>almost extinct. College tuitions are going up at twice the rate
>of inflation, college scholarships, grants, and loans are getting
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>harder and harder to obtain, school vocational programs are being
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gotta tell ya, Doc.  I find this one way too hard to believe.  I'm not rich
either, and I'm a student in school.  Usually the poor and lower middle class
students are racial minorities right?  Well, at my school, I can't get a
grant or scholarship because I'm white and in a major that offers no scholar-
ships.  I'm female, but that doesn't help.  See, I'm white, so I can't
possibly be underpriviledged.  I live at home, and I pay my tuition.  But
my father makes too much money now that he's retired for me to qualify.
All the scholarships always go to black and latino female students.
I don't hate them for it, I think it's great; but I'm getting screwed for
being middle class.

>cut..... For every individual like yourself who claims to be better off,
>there are four or five who are not. Do some volunteer work at
>shelters for the homeless sometime and see the kind of people
>who are there. The days of the homeless being primarily drug addicts
>and vagrants are over.
>
>Norman
>
>Dr. Norman J. LaFave
>Senior Engineer
>Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company
>
>When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>                               Hunter Thompson

Jennifer, Republican Extraordinaire, "Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him."
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Now that it's over, I've received 5:1 e-mail.  5 pro-Bush, isn't this great?
we're gonna win in '96 for sure! to each 1 pro-Clinton nyah.  In light of
this, I still don't understand how he got elected.
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mandate, v.  Democrats saying, "All right! It's ours again! Let's SCREW 'EM!!"
landslide, n.  Election by 40% of the vote, 5 points above 2nd place.
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