Cuts clip classes, futures

Annoyed wrote:

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"unessisary"? Check your spelling... you could probably use one of those UNNECESSARY programs yourself. You are very ignorant to say the majority of students are not using those programs. People that attend LACCD college use and sign up for any program possible. had you experienced their situation slightly, you would understand how helpful those "unessisary" programs really are. Yes it is true, compared to some community colleges in the US LACCD students are not paying that much, BUT they are living in Los Angeles where rent and mortgage is ridiculously high. These are COMMUNITY COLLEGE students, they range from students who earned 4.0's in high school and could not afford a UC or CSU right away to parents who are trying to further their career and at the same time having to pay for family expenses, bills, all while working and going to school and dealing with outside of school expenses. These students do not have all kinds of money or have rich parents to pay for a 4 year and a brand new car once graduating high school. These are students surviving off of cup of noodles or top ramen, do you know how many top ramens one could buy with $6? That's only $6 PER UNIT, times 3-5 units PER CLASS times the 5 classes needed to be taken since they cut summer session and decreased the amount of classes, plus over priced books and transportation. I know people involved in these "unessisary" programs that had to sell their car to pay for school and books, as well as people having to take on an extra job and more classes because of cuts and fee increases. These set backs for students furthers the time it takes to be in school so therefore you are spending more of your precious tax money an extra 2 years on a student who could have graduated way sooner. I am glad that you think they are not used or needed.

Annoyed wrote:

<quoted text>Did you know we spend around $30,000-$50,000 on an inmate to sit on his bum and be fed and sheltered for an entire year when it only costs around $5,000 for a student? In theory...had we invested money into the educational system in the first place we would not have so many idiots committing crime. No one spends nearly as much money on prison as we here in California do so I'm glad you know exactly where you tax money is going.

Gary wrote:

Banana republic USA doesn't need college educated young people. Heh, heh, such is only for prospering nations and wouldn't you know, China and India have taken over the brain pool while America was resigned to being a playground for vacationing wealthy. We really need to build more work camps, you know, to increase number of plebes involved in slave labor to benefit the state. Stalin and Lenin are smiling in their graves, methinks. Thank you president Obama for continuing the Bush crime empire.