Posted on 11/24/2017 11:55:31 AM PST by Az Joe
Agree !!
I’ll admit I ate at a grocery store a few times as a teen ....... then left the loaded basket in isle six after I was full ..... sang for my supper at a local shelter and cleaned up the place afterwards . Fed on appetizers during happy hour 50 cent a pitcher nights . Tilled maintained gardens as barter for a basket of produce a week, stretched a 25 pound bag of rice for 100 meals. Knew of restaurants , cafeterias etc that gave food away at closing time .... hotels and motels with free continental breakfasts. Knew were fruit trees grew. Never hungry,
2 jobs I was working during school paid rent, car, fuel and insurance, books, tuition, utilities.....
Do they even teach life skills to these kids anymore ?? Improvise ya lil’bi*ches !
Awesome parenting mirrored in your son there .... congrats.
That’s right. I went to college using my GI Bill, a work study program helping sign up other Vets, drove a cab, bartended and landscaped.
I agree-these fragile little wusses have no concept or self reliance-never mind that they are not in any way resourceful if they lack basic survival skills like how to obtain their own food instead of depending on others foe handouts...
In my college days, only those students from super affluent families didn’t work-the rest of us slaved away either full or part time-mostly in low-skilled jobs. I did the cocktail waitress thing because the tips were the best, even if the hours were long and the pace hectic at the bar-and-supper club where I worked, I loved leaving at 2AM with as much as $150.00 in my hot little hands.
After school and rent were paid there was still money for ramen noodles, hamburger helper and some ground beef, hot dogs, a few cans of tuna-or if you didn’t want to cook, the burger joint with the $.99 burger and fries-or First Mate fish place with the $1.99 menu-choice of 2 fish fillets, 6 oysters or 6 shrimp-all fried and with a side of hush puppies and cole slaw. I can’t imagine anyone I knew begging for food from someone-as a last resort, you could always get an invite to a relative’s, or a friend’s parents’ place at least every week or two...
The GI Bill still provides great benefits.
But...
https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+you+disqualified+from+military+service
“Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service”
http://time.com/2938158/youth-fail-to-qualify-military-service/
Dig into the spring break fling account. My girls proved you can eat for less than $2 per day while in college.
Philosophy major? Building creds for lib divinity school?
I admit I haven’t read the article - that said, all the universities that charge PER MEAL could follow the example of the universities with the NEVER GO HUNGRY policy for their meal plans.
I had heard the stories of kids eating thru their meal plan by Nov 1st of fall semester. Was nice to hear the school my son wanted to attend had the “never go hungry” policy - we paid for food for the semester and he ate for the semester.
University of North Texas in Denton feeds the kids sent to them!
I went to school in Florida. Between the neighborhood fruit and avocado trees, fishing for sea trout in the Indian river off the bridge, and the Piggly Wiggly for oatmeal, grits, rice, and beans, I sure never went hungry. Maybe $10 per week.
meanwhile the local merchants are almost all seeking more part time help in their stores
Theology and pre-seminary major?
Another race baiting article! If you are paying to go to college you have access to the dining facilities! Like I said this is nothing but more racial dividing!!
Well, I’m sure the overpaid and generally intellectually vapid university deans and administrators would be more than willing to give a percentage of their salary to prevent this..
Yes sir. Bless You sweet child of mine..
The only thing they are doing without is common sense and adult priorities.
I grew up on a small family ranch in WSW Texas-we were all taught to hunt for food, shoot and live totally off-grid-never spend any real time in city till college, but there was a Piggly Wiggly near the off-campus apt complex where I lived, just like the one in the little town 25 miles from the ranch, so that was my food source of choice, with the Griff’s Burger Bar and the First Mate if I didn’t want to cook and had a few extra bucks-and the daily special on the menu at the club where I was a cocktail waitress was always available for free for waitresses and bus staff to eat-usually chicken or fish with a salad or a couple of sides.
Then I got serious with a guy who had already graduated and had a “real” job as a cop-he liked for me to cook for him, so I ate a lot better in my last 2 years-survival skills learned from my mama...
In the future in America, the only people who will need to work will some people at Amazon and Google, a few at the Federal Reserve to print money, and a few people at Fed.gov to hand it out to everyone else.
I used to go to chinese buffet all you can eat after not eating for 2 days..hung out at the mcdonalds dumpster at closing time where they threw out already cooked burgers in bags..learned to cook potatoes different ways lost 30 pounds freshman year..but I survived!
No, they are not going hungry. College students used to live poor, but today they live better than most middle class.
“or......if over 21......find the nearest best free happy hour....for the price of a drink....free food galore”
I made it through my early twenties on Happy Hour bar food!
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