Good 'Ol Self Reliance

Virginia Foxx, the idiot North Carolina congresswoman who said on Gordon Liddy's radio show a week or so ago that she was tired of hearing college graduates whine about their crushing debts, has a very convenient memory.

According to the Education Sector blog, Foxx paid tuition of $87.50 per semester when she went to the University of North Carolina in 1961.  That equates to an inflation-adjusted $671.30 per semester today.

It was possible to work your way through college in the 1960's; it isn't anymore.

By the way, is there a double standard about the way Republicans glorify their convicted felons? Don't Gordon Liddy and Oliver North both have radio shows where political leaders are wont to show up without a hint of embarrassment?