Editor,
On the first day of school, we were greeted with a Daily Lobo front-page headline: "Udall proposes plans to help pay for college." To the average student, this means his or her worries will soon be over. Didn't Barack Obama also promise free tuition in exchange for five years of community service? Remember Sen. Hillary Clinton's "$5,000 for all newborns"?
Who in the U.S. is dumb enough to have a child just to receive the money? Wouldn't the child cost you 10 times as much before he or she could even get the money at 18? And what would $5,000 be worth by then? Sounds like bribes to me, and talk is cheap. This is only a Democratic Party plan to bribe the young and gullible to vote for them. It desperately needs the young vote to win, but does it need to give false promises to get it?
Our own governor seemed to bribe voters with a rebate check before his re-election, and he won. And during Gov. Bill Richardson's first four years, he was more like Santa Claus: Anyone who sat on his lap got a $1 million present and a photo. The more cameras, the more bucks. He was giving millions to a group at a luncheon and then more millions to another group at a dinner, and both were reported on the same newscast.
Rep. Tom Udall has been in Congress for years, and tuition is still rising. Don't you find it insulting that he, and many Democrats, have to lie and give false promises to get your vote?
S. James Chavez
UNM alumnus
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