The economy, torture, swine flu, nuclear positioning, gay marriage, rich and poor — it never ends. You would think people would tire of whining and blaming, positioning and vindicating. I grow sick of hearing about it.
Let’s try something new. I spend my life energy working super hard to earn money to send my son to college. I drive him hard to achieve good grades to be competitive and earn his way in through old-fashioned hard work. I am proud that we have accumulated a meager supply of money to put him through just one year at a university. It took me 10 years to get there. I make a good wage, too. We have a pretty good standard of living because we sacrificed the luxuries and extravagance that we could have had.
Yet, his chance of going to a university is pretty slim — even with a 3.6 grade point average. Why would this get me distressed or discouraged? Because I recently read that if he were in a low-income family and his GPA was as low as 2.0, his college education would be free. (April 28 article, “College dream possible for many.”) Not only are my son’s chances of going to college low, but all that work I did will pay for someone else to go in his place. I don’t even get a say in it. Why bother?
I am tired of this elitist, self-serving socialist state. How do we keep electing the folks who create this? No wonder Boeing is going elsewhere.
Don Thompson
Lake Stevens
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