Since graduation, I have been unable to secure full time permanent employment, which makes it a hardship to repay the student loan. The schools promise to assist in employment positions after graduation was not productive. I am close to retirement age and foresee great difficulty in repaying a loan for education that could not be used to produce sufficient funds to warrant receiving the loan.

Sex Education is so vital in our Country and is a free right. We cannot allow a legistlator, polititian or Minister toy with thelives of our youth and of the unborn. I worked for HealthWorks Theatre Company in Chicago and saw the difference it made to be able to answer questions by our young people about their bodies, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy and how to protect themselves and how to make the right decisions for themselves. We as Americans have an advantage that many people across the world don't. We can share our knowledge and help others openly and graciously. Let us keep our country real and full of positive pride.

Get 100 people creditable people to vote on the issues that the candidates state as truth. Get the public to vote for and against people on the panel to get rid of the far right and far left people.

Our taxpayer dollars bailed out the banks. The interest our money we save in these banks is earning less than 1% interest. I petition that students Stafford Loans that are being paid should have the interest eliminated, or at least lowered to the same low rates we are receiving from the banks we bailed out. If you want to get more money back into the economy, eliminate or lower the rates as I've stated, Help bail out these students, many who can't even find jobs. Congress was considering raising rates back up to at least 6% and we are supposed to be thankful that they are trying to keep them at 3%. Well congress 3% is not low enough. Eliminate, or lower them to the same rates the banks that taxpayers bailed out are giving us on our savings accounts. If you're even lucky enough to still have a savings account.

Mandatory education on people's cultures and heritages which make up America's population is needed to prevent spread of ignorance, fear and hate especially in cases where it's misdirected. Also education on the constitution is needed to be implemented in the military, police and law enforcement and high school as a mandatory level of proficiency. This weekend there was a mass murder on a Sikh Temple or Gwardtha and the perpetrator likely thought he was attacking Muslims. The majority of the country does not know anything about the religion of Islam in the first place. Misunderstood, misguided anger. Military members take an oath to "support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic." Yet after they take their oath there is no education or discussions on the constitution unless you have someone who wants to stick out their necks and have a private class with their troops. They have no idea why they are in Iraq and preparing to war with Iran as well as the attempted long term occupation of Afghanistan after Russia's failed 15 year attempt and bankruptcy and fall as a country. All the mandatory training in the military and none of it is on the constitution or the religions of the world which is the first thing we are taught that this "War on Terrorism" is from .... key word RIP Religious Ideological Political.... reasons for terrorist acts. Labels and racial slurs are perpetuated in the military which may have contributed and lead to the shooting in Fort Hood Texas as well as this last shooting in the Sikh temple. When people have a basic understanding of each other they have proven to get along better. Many Americans and in other countries work together side by side regardless of religious denomination or ethnicity. Multicultural heritage celebrations, food and festivals are great and do wonders for the communities. It can't be limited to one group and groups should not be excluded unless they perpetuate hate and fear through the spread of like messages of ignorance.

The objective teaching of all relevant scientifc theories both for and against evolution in public schools

Petition the President of the United State to make all schools equal and the arts included in all curriculums. Not only wealthy communities should have Arts and Foreign langauage. Lets make it a law for all Public schools.

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A decade's old regulation (part 'd' of the "a-g" requirements) is stifling California's high school education. The University of California's Office of the President should act to recognize the promise of modern technology and drastically revise this regulation to save money and improve science learning.

One of the most sure-fire ways to ensure a better future is a college education. For many fields, this includes post-graduate studies. For several years, the first $8500 of a graduate student's loan was subsidized, meaning that no interest accrued until six months after leaving college or graduating. As a doctoral student at Temple University, I expected this when I went to sign for this year's student loan. However, thanks to an act of Congress, all graduate student loans are now unsubsidized. With several graduate students losing scholarships and teaching opportunities due to budget cuts, this hits us on both ends. It is time to reinstate subsidized graduate student loans. Do we want a society with fewer doctors, lawyers, librarians, teachers, professors, social workers, and librarians? The time has come to stop making it more difficult for students to afford college.

Not personally affected, but this is one other sign of the way in which religious fundamentalists hinder knowledge and progress due to their own fears that their beliefs will be found faulting.

MAD AS EVER AND IT IS TIME TO PUT PEN TO PAPER Letter to Congressional Reps and Senators: Let me start off by saying I am not going to mince words, I will shoot straight from the hip and tell you how POOR of job you are doing and have been doing in reference to college students and student loans. You can do WAY MORE then what you have done! Instead you allow the laws to college enrollment to be changed for the WORST and at the most financially inopportune time. I am 3 semesters into earning a degree in Public Relations and Journalism to be notified by email that this Fall I would have to pay 100% of my tuition at the time of registering for class. Now I know because you get a WOPPING tax-payer salary the rest of us are not so fortunate! You use the tax-payer money to pay your child’s college tuition to position them to become the next succubus on the tit of the American tax-payer AND THEY DON’T HAVE TO PAY BACK A PENNY IN STUDENT LOANS! Now I am sure that common sense is not so common so let me continue …. How in the world if over 8% are unemployed, and have been for some time, do think they are going to come up with the money to pay for the OVER INFLATED price for the piece of paper from a college/university? Better yet pay for books that are over-priced and are out-of-date at the end of the semester they were purchased – so there is not even the possibility to get some of our funds back. REALLY!? Understand this NOT Obama's doing, it's the doing of you weak backed, limp-wristed politicians that are stealing the tax-payer money by not DOING YOUR JOB AND PLAY AROUND ON THE CLOCK! Now the Republicans and LAZY Democrats have found yet another way to break down the middle class, divide families, dampen hopes and DESTROY dreams! We voted for you = WE HIRED YOU TO DO A JOB THAT YOU HAVE BEEN LESS THEN SUCCESSFUL IN MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS OF THIS POSITION, come November I will make sure YOU WILL NOT GET ANOTHER VOTE FROM ME AND ANYONE THAT WILL LISTEN! Your time in office needs to come to a screeching halt just like all of us that were in the middle of degrees and don’t have the finances to complete them. Believe it or not there are those of us who don’t believe in doing a job halfway or QUITTING IN THE MIDDLE. We elected you to be our voice, you have YET to be seen or heard now that you all have manged to mess it all up and want to blame the Black man. I am more than a little upset and disgusted with your lack of enthusiasm for your position and IT IS TIME SOMEONE ELSE HAS YOUR JOB! DISGUSTED YOU WERE EVEN VOTED INTO OFFICE, Pharice Brown Tax-payer, Student, Mother and Business Owner