Letters to the Editor
GodsMadClown
Published Letters: 3
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Get over it?
[Read the article: Timing is everything: Ney to resign from Congress today]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A US congressman pleads guilty to charges akin to bribery, still draws salary for a month, and you want me to get over it?
It's not the quantity of the money that that month of "service" cost the country, rather it's the quality of the dishonor that it brings to our nation that such a sleezebag gets paid to be a public servant.
To quote from another period of low ebb in the honor of service on Capital Hill...
Mr. Ney, "have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
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If you're going to say something, then just say it, jackass.
[Read the article: Rumsfeld's Iraq regret: Calling the war a "war on terror"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will I miss that stupid device where Rumsfeld responds to a question with another series of questions directed at himself, which he then answers? No.
Do I think that this passive voiced mechanism is condescending to the listener and a needlessly verbose complicated construction designed to evade responsibility and easy quotation? Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.
Should Donald Rumsfeld let the door hit him in the ass on the way out? No.
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vouchers in the guise of "Pell Grants", or fully fund real Pell as it stands?
[Read the article: What's Bush's Pell Grant proposal really about?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My wife used to work in Financial Aid, in an urban school, serving a population that depended heavily on financial aid to complete higher education. Many of the students she served were eligible for Pell grants. However, Congress has never fully funded the Pell program.
Mr President, instead of rebranding vouchers as the "new Pell", can we just fully fund the the real thing? Only twice since its conception have actual grants under the Pell program matched the level set at its conception. It took Democratic control of Congress to increase the actual awards for the first time in five years. Where was your leadership when your party was running Congress?
For more on Pell grants, check out what the National Association of School Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) has to say on the subject.
http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2002/RTFPellPrelim101102.html