How are the students getting away with this obvious ripoff? ... especially the affluent students...
Guess what I did? I worked an extra shift and bought boxes of pasta.
There were times when I needed to make the rent and put gas in the car and I had to drink a few less beers on friday night.
Hmmm, budgeting and buying cheap stuff when you are in college...what a wacky idea.
Public schools, colleges, and universities are ripping off the American taxpayer, ripping off the students, and the students rip off the American taxpayer and the wheels turn merrily, merrily, education is but a scam.
Since they have little real income, they likely qualify for entitlements meant for the poor. After all, they are adults, and have very little money of their own. However, it's considered cheating if they take advantage of entitlement programs rather than getting money from mom and dad even though they are legally adults.
They don’t want to ask their parents but they will ask complete strangers?
A few years ago, at the University of Iowa, the head football coach (earning $3 million per year) had a son on football scholarship who was living in public subsidized housing that was intended to help poor families.
I guess I`m poorer than many people posting here. My son is 32 years old, going to school full time and working full time (restaurant). He went back to school a couple of years ago, when he saw that there are NO decent jobs without an education. I could not help him financially then and I can`t afford to help him now. Without Pell grants, etc., he would be a fry cook for the rest of his days. My point is that there are many, many young students out there that NEED a helping hand, let`s not throw them out with the students who , you think, are affluent.
Funny, when **I** was an undergrad, when things got tight, it was bread from the day-old store, tuna fish from a can (and the store brand), and ramen. Heck, even NOW,you can buy enough ramen noodles for a week for under 5 bucks. . .
Even now, 25 years later. . .sitting on the shelves in our pantry are a few shrink-wrapped 20-brick-packs of ramen noodles. . . .
When I was a student I solved the problem by getting a part time job washing dishes in an Italian restaurant. I ate well for about two years.
"Before, when I lived in the dorms, I was on the meal plan," the 20-year-old said. "Now that I'm in the apartment, I have to pay for food, and I have to pay my cell phone bill. I don't make enough to pay for both."
We are living in an entitlement society, no doubt about it.
There is something terribly wrong with a system set up that gives money to able bodied people who basically are refusing to work to support themselves. No wonder America is swimming in debt.