<p>jersey, thanks for the effort to clarify, but I guess I still don't quite get your point. When you said, "it's the taxes that we so-called wealthy people pay that fund those government-sponsored grants," what exactly was the connection to the merit aid debate? I guessed you were confusing merit dollars with "government sponsored grants," because you put them together in your argument. If that's not it, are you saying that po' folk get government grants so the wealthy deserve merit? Or ...? Sorry, I'm trying to follow. Help me.</p>