Pocho, I always respect your comments, and this is no exception. I understand where you're coming from. No one wants to pay for someone else's non-mandatory education. But the goal of public universities is to open the door of opportunity to everyone, regardless of economic background. Before WWII, only the rich could afford a college education. If you were born to a poor family, college was out of the question. But the war and the GI BIll changed all that. For the first time in history, men and women from poor families who served our country had open access to the nation's best colleges. They took advantage, and the rest is history. Most of Hawaii's postwar leaders came up through this opportunity. That same opportunity is now extended to all our young people who wouldn't be able to attend college otherwise. And we all know that college will improve their life chances. This is a good investment, I think. They will be our future leaders.