by myownsatellite » 3/14/2008, 6:52 pm
It may be a boring news story for you up there in Canadia, but it has a lot of ramifications to us New Yorkers. At the forefront of my mind is the SUNY endowment Spitzer had proposed that we are now in all probability not going to get, because it was going to need major Republican support in order to pass, and now that Spitzer has fouled up so badly, there's no way the Reps are going to support anything a Dem proposed. Since the Reps are the ones in power right now, that's a major problem. In case you're unaware - the SUNY system used to be fully state funded. Now it's less than 10% state funded, and tuition is raised every year, to the point where SUNY schools are now almost as expensive as private schools, making the need for them irrelevant.
There are many other issues but I don't want to write a novel here.
It's a major problem really. Just because it's a scandal involving sex, and not, say, chemical weapons, doesn't make it irrelevant or unimportant.
~*Megan*~
"Wow, nice to meet you. Nine years huh? That's a really long time. Are you going to stab me or something? Because if you are, can we get it over with?" ~Jer
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