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| Arlington, aka Affluent, Virginia. |
Most public university students could earn their tuition and then some by working a summer job. By continuing to work part time during the school year, with a modicum of help from parents or other relatives, many students managed to graduate entirely debt free. In-state students who did borrow had post graduation monthly re-payment schedules that were on the order of a car note or Con Ed bills -- not the condo or house size repayment burdens that many students carry today. Fueled largely by the free and easy availability of debt, the costs of attending college have skyrocketed over the years, much more so in some places than others. | Vermont Resident, On Campus | Vermont Resident, Off Campus | Vermont Resident, At Home | Out-of-State Resident, On Campus | Out-of-State Resident, Off Campus | |
| Tuition | $14,664 | $14,664 | $14,664 | $37,056 | $37,056 |
| Student Fees | $2,104** | $2,074 | $2,074 | $2,104** | $2,074 |
| Average Loan Fees | $82 | $82 | $82 | $82 | $82 |
| Books & Supplies | $1,200 | $1,200 | $1,200 | $1,200 | $1,200 |
| Room* | $7,376 | $7,400 | $2,500 | $7,376 | $7,400 |
| Meals* | $3,774 | $2,500 | $830 | $3,774 | $2,500 |
| Transportation | $200 | $646 | $2,358 | $672 | $1,118 |
| Miscellaneous | $1,600 | $1,600 | $1,906 | $1,600 | $1,600 |
| Total | $31,000 | $30,166 | $25,614 | $53,864 | $53,030 |
| Category | Semester | Academic Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition/Fees1 | $3,425 | $6,850 |
| Room/Board2 | $4,325 | $8,650 |
| Books/Supplies3 | $625 | $1,250 |
| Personal/Transportation4 | ||
| Total | $8,375 | $16,750 |
| Category | Semester | Academic Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition/Fees1 | $11,085 | $22,170 |
| Room/Board2 | $4,325 | $8,650 |
| Books/Supplies3 | $625 | $1,250 |
| Personal/Transportation4 | ||
| Total | $16,035 | $32,070 |
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Steve Daines files "paperwork" for U. S.
Senate run on his iPhone outside RightNow
Technoligies in Bozeman, MT, with wife Cindy,
24 February 2014.
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Show Your Birth Certificate, Steve!
Steve Daines Makes Contradicting Claims About Montana Roots
As Congressman Grasps At Ties To Adopted State, He Confuses Facts & Himself
HELENA, Mont. – The Montana Democratic Party today called on Congressman Steve Daines, who claims in his latest TV ad to be a “fifth-generation Montanan,” to clear up confusion about his roots by releasing his birth certificate.
The Daines campaign fired back Wednesday, saying that the 2002 statement was simply a misquote by the reporter and that his family has been in the state five generations. “[Democrats] may be able to dictate the way Montanans live their lives, but unless Montana Democrats want to move Steve’s great-great-grandmother’s grave, they can’t change Steve’s strong heritage as a fifth-generation Montanan,” said Daines spokeswoman Alee Lockman.
Mr. Daines was born in Southern California, after his father—unable to find work in Montana—took a job there while his mother was pregnant. The family moved back to Montana when Mr. Daines was one year old, and he grew up and attended school there, Ms. Lockman said.
All that wealth and opulence – bought and paid for by the rest of the country, so our rulers can live in a style and fashion that the rest of us can only imagine. Is this a great country or what?Sequester is a no-quester when it comes to housing and real estate in the federal government based economy in the Washington, DC area. Feds throughout continue to grow the financial divide with middle America as the real estate they occupy appreciates by leaps and bounds and federal largess makes housing affordable for contractors and employees.
Demand is soaring, but supply is not keeping up. The region’s supply of homes is the tightest it’s been since well before the financial crisis, according to recent data.
The result? It takes only nine days for most homes to be snapped up by hungry Washington home buyers. The region’s entire inventory of homes for sale could be consumed in as little as two months.
This tight inventory is pushing up home prices, setting up bidding wars and pricing new home buyers out of a market that is still enjoying historically low mortgage rates.
Homes in the $300,000 to $600,000 price range are selling the most quickly — usually in a week, according to June data — making the market particularly hard to navigate for first-time home buyers who want to live close to the District. Just a year ago, those homes sat around for at least three weeks.
Even homes at the higher end of the spectrum — from $600,000 to just shy of the $1 million mark — are on the market for eight days. On the other side of the scale, homes priced lower than $300,000 are available for just over two weeks.
Washington’s strong labor market and relative immunity from the housing crisis meant that demand never really dried up here, analysts say. But supply hasn’t kept pace.
In the private sector, many workers are concerned about losing their employer-sponsored health insurance coverage, and being dumped into Obamacare’s subsidized insurance exchanges. Two weeks ago, representatives of three large labor unions fired off a harsh letter to Democratic leaders in Congress, complaining that Obamacare would “shatter…our hard-earned health benefits” and create “nightmare scenarios” for their members. Today, we learn that the National Treasury Employees Union—the union that includes employees of the Internal Revenue Service—is asking its members to write letters to their Congressmen, stating that they are “very concerned” about legislative efforts requiring IRS and Treasury employees to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges.
“I am a federal employee and one of your constituents,” the letter begins. “I am very concerned about legislation that has been introduced by Congressman Dave Camp to push federal employees out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and into the insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).”Oh my! Oh no! Club Fed is saying not for us, Obamacare has got to go.
Meanwhile, in the buy 'em by the bag land you can buy one, two or three sack fulls. It makes no difference. Pushed by Obamacare's implementation White Castle -- in sharp contrast to its current employee mix -- is driving towards a part time benefit free workforce. Currently,White Castle employs around 9,600 workers nationwide and about half work full-time. Roughly 80 percent of White Castle's full-time employees opt in to the company's current health care plan and the company spends four to five times more in health care than it makes in net income annually, Richardson said.Obama is all for the middle class. If you don't believe it, ask him. Remember his motto. Forward! Move on!
