Sheesh! If she is waiting tables, few are the places that don't provide health insurance.
So all you tax payers (suckers) better pony up.
I know literally dozens of such people where I live in Los Angeles. It would never occur to them to get a reasonable day job to fund their aspirations. Not when there is the government teat to suckle at.
Most people in my social circles view me as a curiousity, an eccentric for holding such views; which is shameful.
I am paying for this joke. Will someone tell her that's why they call them "starving" artists.
Why doesn't she go home to Vermont and work her ass off at her parents' restaurant? she wanted time to "work on her own projects" ? Hey, stupid, how about working on MY project---reducing my taxes---get a f...g job. and while you're at it...get a roomate or two..$600 a month rent?!
This makes me sooo mad.
This is just sickening. I cannot understand how any person with any self respect could do something like this. I don't know what is worse, these people, or the government giving them aid.
I've done the "in between jobs at the folks' house" gig. It works!
I don't know, if any relative of mine didn't have money for medical care, I'd help them out. That's the way it used to be in this country and that's the way it should be.
She chose her degree program poorly. She chose a "profession" that isn't in demand. Therefore, she has a useless degree. I could start a buggy whip manufacturing company tomorrow. How soon would I be bankrupt? How long before some liberal whines about the lack of funding for the "arts?"
She could be living at home and waitressing in her family's restaurant, but no...she fancies herself an "artist" and that means she can freeload off my taxes and my children's taxes. They are struggling to pay bills for their families too and could use the extra money that the government confiscates to support air heads like this one. Colleges that award these worthless degrees ought to have to pay the stipends of their graduates who can't make a living after paying thousands of dollars for an "education"...oh, that's right, WE paid for that too, through her student loans!
This thread prompted me to change my tagline.
Disgusting. But no surprise for a high-tax state like NY.
Maybe she can go home and WORK.
This is just a story of the previously pampered counting on someone to rescue her. Having been down/and/out in NYC, I can tell you that it is possible to almost always find a job. It may not be the job you want, but it'll put food on the table.
Performance art!