Political Quotes

“One does not have to be a rocket scientist, one does not have to be an economics professor to know that many families today are struggling to pay their child's college education. Both sides of the aisle would agree with that. In fact, college tuitions have increased 234 percent since 1980. Now, this prices many families out of a college education. Others have had to go deep in debt to send their children to college. As a matter of fact, parents and children attending college have borrowed more money for college education in the 1990's than in the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's. Now, I was an elected member of the Alabama State School Board, and we were faced with this problem in Alabama, one of our poorer states, people unable to send their children to college. And we were one of the first 3 states to devise a prepaid tuition plan where parents could put away a little money each month and when their children reached college age they could take that fund and then pay for their college tuition. I am glad to say today that 43,000 Alabama children are enrolled in our prepaid college tuition plan.”