<p>Community college in Maryland does NOT cost $5,000 a year in tuition. I was curious so I went to check and I looked at a couple of MD CCs. In-state tuition costs between $1500-2700 for in-county students, and around $3,000 for in-state but out-of county residents.</p>
<p>still could not see or make up why America in itself have laws that give so much to the low income, and next to nothing to the middle class.</p>
<p>Because the middle classes enjoy more benefits and privileges than the lower-classes by benefit of their elevated income and status in society.</p>
<p>The “welfare queen” story of mothers on welfare who are able to afford designer clothes and accessories are largely a myth, perpetuated by people who have absolutely no experience with the system and don’t know how things work. I have a cousin that’s on welfare, and while I agree that she’s one of the few who’s abusing the system in various ways, she definitely can’t afford Coach bags and Louis Vuitton clothes. I know a lot of people who are on public assistance and none of them are wearing designer clothes beyond the Gap, maybe.</p>
<p>First of all, you don’t get checks on WIC; you get a card that enables you to purchase certain limited items at the grocery store for the nutritional benefit of your child(ren). It doesn’t translate into real money. Similarly, EBT cards can only be used at grocery stores to buy unprepared foods (my cousin can’t even get paper plates or a cake for her daughter’s birthday with EBT if I remember correctly). Even the money that you can get on welfare is difficult to live on even with a child, much less purchase designer purses and clothes with.</p>
<p>This kind of scorn for people on public assistance is unwarranted. College is a privilege; eating is not.</p>