<p>[Governor</a> Arnold Schwarzenegger - Interact](<a href=“California Governor”>California Governor)
Im not sure if that is where one would send an e-mail regarding the proposed cal grant eliminations so if anyone has another link please post it. It took me 5 minutes to write an e-mail expressing my concern … please take some time to write e-mails to these ******s.</p>
<p>Tough times call for tough measures. The state’s out of money, what can they do? A lot of people are feeling the crunch, not just college students who are afraid of taking out loans. He’s not just doing it to be a dick.</p>
<p>here is the number to voice your opinion on a piece of legislation. Office opens at 9am
Phone: 916-445-2841</p>
<p>[California</a> Young Democrats | Cal Grants Targeted Legislators](<a href=“http://www.youngdems.org/resources/calgrants/]California”>http://www.youngdems.org/resources/calgrants/)</p>
<p>they have some ideas about what you can do as well</p>
<p>Dem Bones cutting financial aid for higher education isn’t the answer. Were going to have a tough time landing a job after graduation as it is. Right now labor is cheap… we have people with degrees and people with years or experience… who do you think is going to get the job? (hint… not the student fresh out of college). Why put us more in debt by forcing us to take out loans. If your not going to help get off this thread and go join Arnold.</p>
<p>I wish I could join Arnold.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Stop Whining](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1lfSzgcAw]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1lfSzgcAw)</p>
<p>Thanks kitkat7 link helps a lot.</p>
<p>I just sent an email. ** This is my opinion, If you don’t agree, please don’t fire back some obscene comment**.</p>
<p>"Dear Governor,</p>
<p>I met you when you came down for City Year Los Angeles’ “MLK Day” in 2008. It was truly an honor to meet you. What I am writing to you about today is the cutting of cal grants in higher education. My mothers income places her as well as my family at far below the poverty line, which doesn’t give me a whole lot of options, and Cal Grants are a blessing. I attend a community college right now, and plan to transfer to UC Berkeley. I understand we are in a financial crisis right now, but surely there are other ways to solve this issue than taking away from the future of Californians. </p>
<p>Thank you for your time,</p>
<p>‘ThereGoesEvan’"</p>
<p>Dem Bones-I am genuinely curious, how are you paying for your schooling? Are you willing to take out $23k per year in loans if financial aid no longer exists? I can only speak for myself, but I would have to drop out. I refuse to have $50k in loans for anything other than a mortgage.</p>
<p>You don’t have to have $46k in loans when you finish. I served in the military to get money with the G.I. Bill. You could work while you’re in school like the majority of people I know who attended college. That $23k pays for everything you need, so any money you earn can go to repaying the loans. I’m going to take out loans as well, and I am going to apply for jobs on top of it. I don’t need a grant, plenty of poor people make it through college with out these grants.</p>
<p>Dem Bones-That’s awesome. I really admire your wilingness to join the military to ensure a great future for yourself. I think that I am just feeling frustrated because, as a 28-year-old student, I am having a hard time making ends meet while I see other students getting tons of financial aid money or have parents that are willing to pay for their education. I plan to work, but wow. Jobs are scarce. They just cut our hours at my job (I work at my CCC) and it’s hard. I will find a way though. :-)</p>
<p>I don’t think we should appeal to him, he very clearly warned the citizens of this state their would be repercussions if they didn’t let his proposed measures pass. They didn’t, and he pulled this out of the box to let everyone know he’s not talking bull about how broke we are. Anyways, complain to your congresswoman/man, because they’re the ones who have been blocking him from making more minor cuts to their pet projects/donor organizations. This is especially true if your congressperson is democrat, sorry to say, they’ve screwed us royally (and I’m liberal, so not just talking s**t here) and are waaaay more responsible for us getting to this point than Arnold. The dude really had been trying to get it into every ones skulls were headed to a bad place economically for a looooong time now.</p>
<p>as Dem Bones mentioned the military is one way to finance your education and there is nothing wrong with that for some people. How ever its just not reality that joining the military is the only option to finance education for low income families. I for one would never join…don’t have anything against but id prefer to search my ass off for scholarships and work 40 hour weeks which ive been doing. It just seems so backwards… coming from a very poor country i have a different perspective on the value of education. It saddens me that our system is so backwards that cutting financial aid would even be mentioned.</p>
<p>I hope that everyone who is being affected by these Cal Grant cuts voted in the last election. And if you didn’t–I hope that you learned the importance of voting. Only 15% of CA voters turned out to vote on Propositions 1A, B, C, and D which means that 85% of Californians didn’t have their say. </p>
<p>And this IS the fault of our congressmen/women for not growing the hell up and balancing the budget like they were tasked to do. We’re in a mess and there are no easy answers. The money for the Cal Grant program can’t just appear out of nowhere and trust me, I need the Cal Grant pretty damn badly. </p>
<p>Lesson learned. It hurts. Now we have to make due with what we’ve got (which isn’t much in my situation) and survive these last 2-3 years of school. If we were smart enough to get this far then we are smart enough to see it through to the end.</p>
<p>And, in the future, remember (if you can)-- VOTE!</p>
<p>^Preach, Physicsfem! :)</p>
<p>Send letters everyone!! If it goes down, at least YOU TRIED. YOU DID SOMETHING.</p>
<p>FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.calpirgstudents.org/action/protect-calgrants[/url]”>https://www.calpirgstudents.org/action/protect-calgrants</a></p>
<p>How can one argue that we are the future of California (university students) but then say they are not willing to take out a loan for a premium education? I do not qualify for financial aid, and I am more than willing to spend what is needed for my education. I know it will pay off 10 fold later on.</p>
<p>come on guys…
it’s the governator…
resistance is futile.</p>