While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.