Super Tuesday

[dailybinx]

Voting is important to me. I believe any political opinion, whether formed from tea leaves, coin flips, or spending the afternoon reading voter pamphlets and watching speeches on YouTube, only counts if you choose to exercise your right to vote. This is especially true this year because the candidates can be described with words other than

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[huckie]

Have you checked to see what the cost of community college is? A full semester (16 hours) at community college is $416 with the fee hike. If you had to take student loans to do 4 years, you'd be saddled with a whopping $3500 in debt. Less than what a CSU or UC student racks up in a single semester.

With students coming out with well over $100K in debt these days, I have a hard time feeling sorry for the plight of the community college student. I paid well over $30 a credit nearly 20 years ago to attend a community college in IL. I'd say that the costs are pretty low here. I agree we should keep them as low as possible, but the simple fact is that the money for Community Colleges, CSUs, and UCs, all come out of the same pot. If you pass a law that says one can't have a fee hike, then the others must bear the full costs when the state cuts education funding or fails to keep up with inflation.

As for term limits, I'd be more apt to vote for the prop if they had labeled it correctly...as a prop to increase term limits. The whole point of term limits is that you get new blood flowing through the system which should shake things up. I don't see the need to switch houses as all bad.

[danthmanes]

When it comes to community colleges, I view it much like high school. I wouldn't be opposed to it being free. I admit I probably sound a little radical, but I don't care. The United States has been falling behind the rest of the industrialized world in education, and that needs to stop. The concern for me about this proposition, though, is what happens to K-12 students. The school teachers seem to have an issue against this, and I'm not quite sure why yet (since the bill *seems* to keep funding the same for them). A teacher friend of mine is going to get back to me on that.

I do agree that the prop on term limits is misleading, but I believe in the underlying premise. If you restrict terms too much, the lack of continuity hurts the ability of the legislature to get things done. You need a balance between experience and new ideas.