Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Hitting the Books Again





What can $700 buy today?

Here are some ideas:

4 weeks worth of groceries for a family of 3,

2 airline tickets from Colorado to Pennsylvania with a 10 day notice,

6 tanks of gas if you drive an Escalade,

a small flat screen TV on sale (minus the cable bill),

the annual salary of 3 people in Ethiopia,

the cost to build 1/10 of a church in the mission fields

BUT,

in the United States of America, this is what it cost for JUST THE TEXTBOOKS to attend THREE CLASSES at a COMMUNITY COLLEGE!!! THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE TUITION!!!

Is it any wonder that the disparity between the rich and the poor is getting bigger and bigger each day?

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