Don't blame all of higher education because your step-daughter was dumb enough to take LOANS of $340,000 for a degree in a near-dead field.  For the vast majority of college graduates the degree has improved their earnings potential.  That is, for the ones who chose an instiution priced to their means, and financed the...more

You presume much, too.  The letter-write is not a young man, but a young woman (evidenced by her signature of "Amanda")--how sexist to assume it's a man.  And, the advisor did answer the question.  The letter-writer wanted the withdrawal as an emergency fund.  Ms. Weston has suggested that she take only the required mi...more

On what basis did you make that conclusion?  Nothing in the article suggests there was a misappropriation of money.  Somebody screwed up the date and then didn't own up to the mistake so it could be corrected.  There's great evidence of stupidity and carelessness, but no evidence of malfeasance.  Get your head out of t...more

When you enter the store, you should get a ticket for each sample being given that day.  Once you use your ticket, that's it.  No more.  You don't get seconds.  You don't get twelve pieces of everything to feed your unruly brood.  You don't block up the aisles waiting.  Simple.

Exactly whose rights is she standing up for?  Certainly not most of them in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and the collective ethos of our country.  She is an uninformed, close-minded throwback to the 1860s.

And what does Sarah Palin know about anything?  She's about the least credible person I could name.  Doesn't she understand that innovation doesn't happen without failure?  That failure is what teaches us what works and moves us forward when we learn from it?  Oh, that's right.  It didn't work quite that way for her.  ...more

It's interesting that Chicago, which has been SO heavily Democratic for SO long, relies on an essentially Republican system of fees.  Fees are paid only by the person using the service (if you don't drive, you don't pay tolls or parking tickets, if you don't own a car, you don't pay for licenses plates or city stickers...more

Social Security IS an entitlement program: you are entitiled to benefits because you worked a sufficient amount of time that you and your employer paid taxes to the system.  Social Security is the purest definition of an entitlement program.   Social Security was designed specifically to pay benefits to widows and ...more

I am continually amazed by how little many people understand about Social Security.    First, it's essentially an insurance plan, into which you and your employer pay premiums based on your wages.  The plan then pays benefits to you when you retire.  But, it also would pay benefits to your non-working spouse if yo...more