Posted on 12/04/2007 9:38:42 AM PST by jdm
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Moral: If you let the Death Eaters in the Government Schools preach to your kid day after day, they will eat his brains.
So...The dad sends him to a Secular Humanist government indoctrination camp. The kid is subjected to the daily preachings the Holy Religion Left Liberalism by the Useful Idiots who work for the Marxists running the schools.
I hope that the dad isn’t surprised that this kid emerges from government indoctrination camp with a brain from the movie set of “The Night of the Living Death”.
Hey! The dad is doing the right thing.
At least he isn’t throwing more money down the Marxist rat hole but supporting further development of his kid’s “dialectics” in our Marxist controlled colleges and universities.
I see. So you tell your daughter that you will pay for her wedding, and she decides to have a nude wedding with an orgy during the reception. Do you still help her pay for the wedding? (I know it is an extreme example - just answer the question.)
Such a stupid restriction on a "gift" makes the father stupid.
Using stupid more than once in a sentence is stupid. ;)
Seriously though, I doubt that this is the real story. The kid is playing on people's sympathies to get money. But even if this is the whole story, it doesn't matter. There's nothing at all wrong with a parent making a kid pay his own way to college, no matter the reason. It's his kid, his money, his choice.
His not supporting college made caused his actions.
Uh. . .what? Anyway, if you feel sorry for the kid, you are welcome to donate to his college fund via his website.
Shoot, when I was ten, we were pulling out of Nam, Ford inhereted the presidency, and Carter was just a year away from futility. The best times of my life, you bet ya. As long as the beach was a bike ride away, and Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm cost only $5 bucks to get in, it was the best of times, not the worst of times for me.
And we all know life in general starts going downhill after age 8.
Dad tries hard to instill conservative work ethic, kid thinks world owes him, Dad lays down law, kid gets snotty. It’s an old story. If I found out one of mine had sent money to Hillary, he’d be out of the will in a big hurry. If he doesn’t value money any more than that, I’ll leave it to the one that does.
The best times of my life were the Eisenhower & Kennedy years. Doesn’t mean I long for the days of the Cold War.
Hence the unbridled love many on FR have for sons who hate their fathers, losers who hate cops, idiots who get tased, tax cheats, polygamists, etc.
It's puerile.
“Instead of working, he is trying his version of a lottery ticket.”
From the story:
He said he is working multiple jobs and living in a small apartment to make ends meet.
Maybe because they see some ill informed or bad choices you are making. At 26, I thought I was invincible and knew everything. Fortunately, I grew up and saw how misguided some of the decisions I made were. They have only your best interest at heart and maybe some respect for their longevity and experiences should be shown.
....Sounds like Teddy is really, really good at getting attention and his ‘protests’ are mostly a way to get attention and money.....
LOL True. Must be some of that hippie nature still left in them, or it got passed to them from their parents.
No, the Dad was not wrong. The child cannot force the father to support his liberal habit throughout college if the Dad doesn’t want to.
Besides, I seriously doubt this was about party affiliation. It is more likely about “the world/country/society/etc. owes me...”.
JMO.
I hope he is not a divorced dad; if so, he’s toast!
You have a weird way of summarizing things.
Yes. It seems the kid is USING Hillary to gin up some money. If he thinks She WHo must not be dismayed is going to be okay with 50% of the take, he doesn’t really understand The Hillary or Democratics at all.
That’s what I call them now. Democratics.
So you have zero tolerance for parents who don’t pay for their offspring’s college (ref. your tagline)?
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Let’s see? Hm? I have an idea!
Answer: He could be self-sufficient! ( Imagine that!)
He could do what I did. He could **work**, go to school part-time at night. He could take out loans and apply for scholarships. Then when done, he could owe as much in school loans as would buy a house.
I bet if he had to **work** and **save** and pay off school loans, his choice of major would not be as frivolous as if dad paid for it.
When college tuition bills became calculated based on the assumption of financial aid, which in turn assumes a certain parental contribution.
There is absolutely no reason a parent should spend good money for a feminist studies/basket weaving/social justice degree, so that their child can tour from protest to protest for four years and then come back home to mooch. And before you argue with me that that isn’t the case here, remember that you are operating on the word of someone who thinks the Clintons embody all that is good.
You must be a load of fun at parties....
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