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The City has recently proposed couple of tentative plans to improve the quality of life for pedestrians. While both proposals seem attractive, I would rather see us implement the plan to beautify our city by planting trees along the streets than hiring additional crossing guards. Planting more trees would not only provide more shade in this hot, hot city during the summer but also have a greater overall positive impact on the residents in helping to reduce pollution as well as making the city a more attractive place to spend time outdoors.
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As a resident of this community and a parent, I certainly like to hear that the city is concerned about our children’s health and that the school is actively seeking ways to help reduce a primary threat to public health, obesity. While the idea of requiring four years of physical education classes in high school makes a lot of sense in helping students stay physically active and fit, I think that the second proposal to put more nutritious foods on the menu in the school cafeteria and to remove vending machines that sell soda and candy is more practical and is thus the plan to implement at the present time.

As a college student myself, I was delighted to learn that the Depart of Education of the United States wants to help out students who are facing financial hardship in paying for their college education. Most students like me find the exorbitant cost of tuition, books, and even room and board to be a great burden that often interferes with our ability to concentrate and perform well academically so it is important that we get some support in meeting those costs. Of the two proposals being considered – either to reduce interest rates and allow longer periods of time for students to pay back their loans or to forgive the loans of any college graduate who elects to serve the country in some capacity after graduation – I feel that the first is the better choice. Giving students low-interest loans and allowing them to pay the money back over a longer period of time will affect a greater number of students and will offer the financial support necessary when students are forced to borrow money to go to school.

As a recent college graduate with a ton of debt, I’m very anxious to hear about the government’s decision regarding two recent proposals to help us pay back all the loans we were forced to take out just to get a college education. Like many other students, I had to borrow a significant amount of money to pay tuition, books, and living expenses at the university that I attended and now I am facing a lifetime of crippling debt. I have to say that given the huge amount of money that I owe, I think that the proposal to completely forgive our students loans if we serve our country for a certain period of time is the better option for me and many like me: we need to be free of these financial obligations to begin a career, often at a low-paying entry-level job. Of course, the other proposal to reduce the interest rates on the loans and allow students a longer time to pay off the borrowed money would help many people as well, but under that program we would all still be facing what seems like a long-term prison sentence. We would never be free of our debt. I ask that you implement this program to forgive our loans if we serve in a program like the Peace Corps or in the US military.