Posted on 11/09/2025 4:40:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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AP sets the standard for leftist/rat propaganda. The worst.
No college student should be on any welfare.
I found out this was a “thing” in the late 1990s, when two guys from a small town a 100 miles away from the university I was at said they were both on Food Stamps and other aid, because they weren’t working.
I told them I was taking night classes and working through the day to pay for school and they said all I had to do was stop working and I’d qualify, like them.
It was completely disgusting, to me.
If you are able bodied, you should never get welfare.
All paid for by people who DID earn what they received in life.
My son is earning his masters degree to become a dietitian/nutritionist and is doing his internship at the local hospital which of course is unpaid. He was bar-tending at a small college bar working for tips and was making about $170/200 a night on the weekend in cash tips.
A woman came in and sat there, ordering a few off menu drinks and chatted him up, and did this for 3 nights straight for about an hour. On the third night she hit on him, and he very politely turned her down, he was just married in March of this year and his wife agreed that if him not wearing his wedding ring got him more tips she was fine with it.
The woman just smiled, handed him a card with a just a mans name on it and a phone number, told him they would love if he interviewed for a better position if he was interested.
It was for a bar-tending job at the new casino they built in Terre Haute, they were looking for someone to work Friday and Saturday nights only at the big bar that is on the top of the building. He interviewed and was offered the job on the spot, the woman was sizing him up and was looking for people who met their criteria.
Little @#$% will be making about $300/night cash tips when all is said and done, I would have killed to have a part time job like that while going to school. His wife is a teacher and was offered at job at Rose-Hulman college just down the street. I guess I can put a check next to that child as figuring out what it takes to be successful in life.
I’m with you on this one.
Excellent idea!
Generally, you get the children you deserve. Well done!
BABY FOOD ?????????????????????
Not much about colleges are what they once were when people earned their way.
Ignorant Ingrates...I was divorced with a 7 yr old son...working fulltime. Went to night/weekend school fulltime. Got undergrad & MBA in 3 years...took advantage of company’s full tuition reimbursement at the time. When I graduated they couldn’t find me a better job, so I left...and went on to bigger and better jobs. Oh, and they reduced the education reimbursement policy after I left.
That is true...paid for my sons bond when he figured out college was not for him...and advised our grandson not to pursue 4 yr degree...they are in construction...grandson in supervisor role, son as oper mgr for $20+ million company.
None of us with any dignity were! It seems the days of the classic Starving College Student are long, long gone. For young, able-bodied people (like most, but not all students) work of some kind is available. I worked in a tire shop, did landscaping for a few older folks, worked in a print shop, delivered parts, worked in a gas station (which included cleaning alot of restrooms...), a plant nursery, etc. Just like most of my friends did. When times were tough, we ate potatoes. Once ate nothing but for three days, baked, mashed, fried, every which way. No big deal. Felt a little sorry for myself, but never once thought about going on the dole. Just not an option.
Good move and saving of a lot of money too.
I lived at home, worked part time, and commuted to a local state university. Food stamps weren’t even on the radar, and I graduated with no college debt.
Me neither!
When I went away to college, all I had to cook with was a crockpot and an electric frypan. I made all sorts of delicious meals using just those two kitchen “appliances”. My mom told me I should write a cookbook for college kids, she was so amazed that I was managing without more. Now, I wish I had done that. Portions were for 1 or 2.
Get a job!
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