bootsykowan's Blog

It helped poor me.  Actually, Barack just reminded me that my mom stuffed bombs in Anacostia during WWII.  She took night job because it brought in more money.  I still see her skin all yellow from the fuse material, in my head.  I told this story at the Spinoza discussion group: at Dallas Temple Emanu-El  about how shaken she was when she came home from an explosion in the next room. One man in the group said he was stationed there and remembers the explosion too.  

The G.I. Bill was wonderful because the vets were the best students.  I chose night classes at G.W.U. because I'm a day person and need the day to do my own thinking.  My college life was filled with G.I.Bill folks.  The profs loved them because they took college subjects seriously and we all learned with them.  I never was exposed to the "rap" kind of thinking that exists in college today.  No frat pranks.  Didn't know it existed.  It was ll purely intellectual and respectful because we never called the profs by their first name..

When I was at Eastern High School in D.C. they predicted that our kids would have two more years of public education because they would include community college.  I had 3 children because I expected that.  It never happened.  Instead the opposite happened.

The Federal Service Entrance Exam was my entrance into being an equal to man female brainwise and in every way socially.  That exam was truly blindly competitive and democratic.  

In my waning years on Earth, LifeLongLearning has given me a luxurious  life.  

In addition, I was lucky enough since Jr. High School all the way through college, to be able to walk alone safely in S.E. D.C. near the Navy Yard  to the Congressional Library to study.  

Luck takes many forms.  However the feds can bring luck to each of us even if certain states are run by Mafia types.
Almost forgot, the Feds encouraged private capital to invest in education by recognizing their contributions to their employees education.   Isn't that a tax cut to the wealthy and the way to give tax cuts to the wealthy?  The feds can control the spending of the poor who use food stamps, the feds can control the spending of the wealthy with tax breaks in education instead of irresponsible "permanent tax cut" and promising it will work, like they promised me about my kids education costs when I was in high school.  There is no difference between a poor college grad and a wealthy college grad except dumb luck.  I kept taking courses the whole time I worked.   Can't believe this:  Hillary right now is saying the same thing!!  Had to re-edit this to include what I'm seeing on C-SPAN right now as I'm typing.