The proposal to eliminate student loan debt by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is nothing more than an audacious attempt to buy the youth vote by promising future monetary rewards in exchange for supporting his candidacy.
College students are among the best and brightest that our country has to offer, and some of the recent graduates profiled in the paper have accomplished so much. They all clearly understand compound interest and hopefully have enough of a moral compass to understand that borrowed money must be paid back.
For students that come from lower income families, two years of community college (while employed and saving money) followed by two years at a university gives you the exact same outcome: a degree. This approach is affordable. Working while attending college gives the students either valuable experience or the necessary motivation from lower paid jobs to complete school.
Under this system, universities will have no reason to control spiraling costs. Students need to earn their way to degrees, not have their education paid for by others.Sen. Sanders, you do have good ideas. This is not one of them.
— Erik Wendehost, San Clemente
Here’s what’s offensive: Nike pulling flag shoe
Nike gets a call from Colin Kaepernick regarding its sneaker that displays the Betsy Ross flag from the American Revolution. He is offended by what the flag represents.
Kaepernick is a has-been former NFL quarterback who couldn’t get a gig because no NFL owner wanted to take a chance on him. They knew he would be booed out of every stadium in the country for his lack of respect for the American flag.
So Nike then decides to pull it from the market and discontinue the sneaker out of fear of offending someone. Now, Nike has offended me. Unless they reintroduce the Betsy Ross sneaker, I’m done with them.
— Charles Hunt, Mission Viejo
Electoral College protects small states from tyranny
Re “Time to get rid of the Electoral College” (Letters, July 4):
Letter writer Bob Hoffman’s call to end the Electoral College is unjustified. The concept is simple. The majority of voters of each state elect the president. A similar concept is senators from small states have the same power as the large states. That’s why we are named the United States. The Electoral College empowers small states against the tyranny of a few populous states.
— Jim Sorensen, Trabuco Canyon
Long Beach failed in reducing illegal fireworks
Before the city of Long Beach reports on this year’s Fourth of July illegal fireworks enforcement results, long-term residents also need to be heard. This was another year of epic failure in reducing the use of fireworks in our city.
The only data that matters is the number of citations and confiscations made from residential abusers. The number of service calls is irrelevant after years of disappointing response results.
Surely, patrol units did not need a citizen call to find the spectacular aerial displays in our neighborhoods. Perhaps next year a city campaign to encourage those who spend their money breaking the law with illegal and dangerous fireworks, could instead direct that money to funds for the homeless or animal shelters caring for lost and traumatized pets.
— Rhoda Cassell, Long Beach
Dems crazy policies
Re “California leaders propose rewards, fines to spur housing” (June 28):
Let me make sure I understand the last part of the of the article: “They (Sacramento Democrats) also agreed to tax people who refuse to purchase private health insurance and use the money to help families of four who earn as much as $150,000 a year to pay their monthly health insurance premiums.”
So if a family of four making $75,000 a year does not purchase private health insurance because they can’t afford it, they are then fined and the money given to another family of four who makes double that amount to help pay their monthly premiums. Wow. It’s scary to think what the Sacramento Democrats will come up with next.
— Ed Bjork, Fountain Valley
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