Students turned away from FL comm. colleges, Jeb sits on 948 million.

[madfloridian]

http://www.stpetetimes.com/2003/09/21/Opinion/35_000_lost_opportuni.shtml

...."While students are being turned away at community colleges, Florida is sitting on a $948-million windfall from the federal government. But Bush, who in August asked for $66-million extra for prisons and in May threatened to veto the entire budget if he didn't get $120-million for his FCAT testing plan, finds no urgency in the destitution of community colleges. The minimum foundation is cracking, and Florida just looks the other way....."

Jeb does not care, the Bushes do not care. None of them. Floridians know how Texans have felt the last few weeks, it is just that our take-over has been completed.

[Cha]

1. Will this make the voters oust fat cat jeeb bush the Next time?

"The stories of lost opportunity are numbing by their repetition: the Miami-Dade College student who is working full-time while trying to earn a degree, only to discover that every course she needs is full; the Hillsborough Community College student who waited in line for six hours to get an anatomy course necessary for nursing, only to be shut out; the St. Petersburg College student who couldn't get any math or history courses.

"We're supposed to take everyone we can," Larry Keen, associate vice president at Sante Fe Community College, told the Times. "We're not fulfilling our mission as mandated by the state. We're turning people away. It's getting progressively worse."

"We are failing to provide instruction and training," Dennis Gallon, president of Palm Beach Community College, added. "Students are not able to go into the world of work and be competitive. That is what makes this devastating for Florida's economy."

I love Florida and the thought of that derelict down there running things (into the ground) is as sad and catastrophic as bush jr screwing up the Whole Country! :grr:

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Welcome to the free market world.

Those who voted for it, have no right to complain.

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3. It has nothing to do with a free market. It's all about rewarding

your fat cat supporters with loot from the treasury!

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I think that's what they had in mind when they sold us on the

concept of "free market." Really, when you think about it, you'd think Americans would be far more skeptical buyers given our consumerism market.