Posted on 07/18/2005 12:38:06 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
No problem. I didn't want to ruin your righteous indignation.
"I wonder if they do the same for underage drinkers? If not they should because alcohol is a both more dangerous and likely to be abused."
Dude, your soo right.
Beat you! Mine's bigger than your's.
Last I checked, smoking isn't illegal, drugs are. They aren't breaking the law by smoking, but they are by buying and using drugs.
Well check again, and this time read post #49, which I was replying to. The legality of the substance is wholly irrevalent to what I was arguing.
What free ride? These are loans. He's got to pay them all back, with interest, after he graduates.
Sounds more like you've got a chip on your shoulder, my friend.
Now really... if your stupid enough to be driving around with your bong on the front seat, are you REALLY college material?
And besides, whatever happened to paying for your own damn college, anyway?
You took the words right out of my mouth. I helped pay for my college education by working, parents funded the rest, and I went to a CA state campus, as it was cheaper, I did'nt want or need a $20K loan hanging over me. I knew plenty of kids who worked full time and studied full time, and they all went on to big things, the kiddies who were there on daddy's dime either dropped out, got worthless degrees and went to work in retail, or just drifted off somewhere.
College became a "right" in the 60's, and that attitude has screwed it all up ever since. I used to always grit my teeth when my dad said "Someone needs to dig ditches and pump gas"...but he was right. The only problem is, the ditch diggers now demand college education as a "right", and they get it. They prop up their "right" to a college degree with the fact that many more employers require a degree...but they can never quite justify why a job like that is their "right".
His parents should sue the government for forcing them to subsidize their child's drug habits. I just know we can find a court somewhere to agree that there is a constitutionally protected right to have the government subsidize an individual's drug habits.
What was this idiot thinking? He should have just wasted his college years getting blasted on perfectly legal booze.
Fall on your parents? Oh I don't think so brat... You scrweed up, mommy and daddy shouldn't be bailing your sorry butt out... GET A JOB, SAVE MONEY, go to a state or community college on your own dime.....
Be a cold day in hell my son would come to me and say, Mom, Dad I got busted for drugs and lost my financial aid, now you have to pay 15,000 a year for me to go to school... SCREW THAT! I'd point em to the community College and a J.O.B.... Obviously this punks been coddled his entire life to even make a statement like that.
According to the article, it is financial aid. Never says a single word that I could find about a loan. It amounted to half of his $15,00 a year tuition, so it sounds like $7,500.
He needs to wait some tables and make up the 7.5K he was mooching off our butts instead of hitting the bong every night.
He needs to wait some tables and make up the 7.5K he was mooching off our butts instead of hitting the bong every night.
Financial aid = loans the student has to pay back, Einstein.
No, it does not. Student loans are student loams. This is part of the Higher Education Act, which gives assistance to minority and low-income students. It's all in the article if you care to read it.
And my name is not Einstein
Because you can't learn if you're high. Instead of wasting financial aid on drug-addled youth, give it to students whose brains aren't fried, 24/7 and will make something of themselves.
Interesting.
Interesting typo, huh? Damn spell checker...
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