John Kerry is out promoting his college plan. Kerry is out to increase enrollment and help the poor and minorities get into college. Sounds like empty promises to me.
I remember Bill Clinton said the same thing. I was in college then, I come from a poor family, Bill Clinton didn't help me out.
I remember George Bush Sr. saying the same thing, oh...but then he decimated the Pell Grant money.
When will Presidents and Presidential contenders quit lying? It's all B.S.
Kerry cannot get more people to go to college if they won't go. Making it free won't help. It might give us a bunch of students that really shouldn't be in college though. Which is the problem with poor and minority students, they didn't get a good high school education, but then we send them off to college and they can't keep up or compete. Then they drop out in frustration and suffer for the rest of their lives. How about promoting K-12 education or trade schools? Nothing wrong with being a plumber, heck I had a simple plumbing job done a few months ago and the bill was way more than I make per hour.
This is really just a plan devised by Kerry's staff to get support from the minorities. Taking a page from the Bill Clinton manual, the Kerry campaign is out pandering. I expect to see G.W. Bush doing the same thing soon.