From: harrity@sumax.seattleu.edu (Elan Morin Tedronai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Ridiculous Health Insurance Policy
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:54:08 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

In article <1992Jul23.133012.7486@menudo.uh.edu> mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU writes:

>Well, I did not follow this thread; so I am sorry if I am missing something.

>>Give me one good reason why a loan won't be enough to help you finish
>>your education here.

>What a prepostrous statement! What makes you think everybody who is in
>here for their education wants to live here. Sorry, you are not that
>great yet. You may be one day; but not yet. 


So, it's good enough to come here for a subsidized education, but
not up to snuff as regards a new home?  No flames here, just
an honest question. It's simply one of the first things that comes to
mind.


>I would like to live in a
>place where neighbours love and care for one another. 

As for neighbors who love and care for one another? Don't think it's an
impossibility. We recently had a death in my family, and I was surprised
and touched at the number of people, (many neighbors, incidentally), who
took the time to drop off food, stop over to see if we needed anything,
etc. If we don't measure up to your idea of what 'love and care for'
means, it looks like you come from an idyllic country indeed!

>And pray tell me
>how am I supposed to pay back your loan. 


Um, the same way we all do, maybe? You get a job and start paying through
the nose, just as I and my colleagues everywhere who've taken out
thousands of dollars will, when finally we get out of school. 



>So the Americans can be given
>as much loan as they want but not the foreign students. 


?????



>You can close
>your door on foreign students ; but then you know how this country
>became whatever it is economically.
>So stop daydreaming and get a life.


Hmm, it's all clear now. The excessive eighties, runaway spending,
etc., didn't have anything to do with our present condition, it's
all attributable to our having closed the door on foreign students??!!
What, 'pray tell', are you talking about?

Listen, I don't think we should close the door on foreign students.
Everyone would be poorer for that. But put yourself in the position
of a Canadian or US student graduating with loans in excess of 
30,000 to pay off, and then ask yourself if you'd not be just a
trifle curious as to why it is seen fit to subsidize foreign students.

The argument about not wanting to live here later doesn't make sense to
me. What it sounds like is, foreign students shouldn't be forced to have
to pay back loans because they'll not be staying here afterward, and the
exchange rate makes paying back prohibitive to  pay from the home
country.  Is that it?  Correct me if I'm wrong, please, because
I'm inclined to say, tough shit. If that's the argument, stop
whining.

I, for one, would've liked more than anything to have completed
my masters program in Australia, but the cost of doing it, all
things considered, would have made things prohibitive.  Should I
gripe to the Australian government because they'd not subsidize me?
After all, I'm a foreigner, and I might even want to stay afterward!
Should the Australians therefore be forced to pay *my* way through
school? Like I said, I just don't get the logic of this argument.



>Arindam

Regards,

Daniel John Kelly-Harrity ---------| |--------- "Sooner spit in a 
Seattle University ----------------| |---------  Wolf's Eye,
Seattle, Washington ---------------| |---------  than cross an
USA 98122 -------------------------| |---------  Aes Sedai."

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