re: #333 HappyWarrior
Sure do and I actually was generous to Blackburn. The wage she made adjusted for inflation today would be between 12 and 14 bucks per hour.
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Thanks—I was thinking of Virginia Foxx (R-Mean as a Snake) who said that nobody should have college loan debt because she didn’t.
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt. I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money.”
• Virginia Foxx went to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1968. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 1968, the average yearly cost for tuition, room, and board for a public university was $1,245 which, in today’s words, is one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars for a year’s worth of college. For today’s average college student, that dollar amount is roughly equivalent to the cost of a textbook and a garbage bag.
Republicans—so attuned to today!