That’s a good point Katie. Politicians don’t seem to grasp the irony of taking money from taxpayers to provide money to the children of taxpayers for college. Why not just tax the taxpayers less and let them send their own kids to college?
Rob - 07:10pm on 10/11/2004
Means more money for the rest of us!
Katie - 07:10pm on 10/11/2004
You just don’t get it Rob. You must take from the rich and give to the poor.
Despite the fact that there are thousands of scholarships available to people that do not have the money to afford college, they do not apply for them and instead complain.
Being dumb is quite different than being ignorant.
Chad Evans - 09:10pm on 10/11/2004
All I can say is good.
Perhaps the kids are too dumb to fill out the forms, perhaps they are just ignorant, or perhaps they are finding ways to do things on their own (which would be the best of the three). At any rate, they are not dragging the rest of us down and are not propping up the bureaucracies that drive this sort of thing.
The nice thing about this is that government budgets typically work on a don’t use it - lose it set up. So the less the students ask for their handouts, the less they can demand from the taxpayers.
Jason - 06:10am on 10/12/2004
Ahem…
I am a college student.
The FASFA is mentioned so many freaking times a year, it gets annoying. There is no excuse for not filling it out. We get mailed at least once with reminders (and also with every fee bill).
I take advantage of what I can get, but because my ‘rents are not classified as poor a$$ mofos, I get an unsubsidized loan. I have a friend whose father was laid off from a nice petrol-co job, and her family had to move to Penn and take up crappy part time jobs (her mom now works two jobs, one full time, other part) and she filled out the FASFA - Got enough money that she now has upwards of $2k coming back at her from refunds.
She is living totally at the expense of the Taxpayer, because she filled this out.
That being said, don’t tell kids about this (unless their your kids, then have at it) because it means more money for those who need it, but not as sorely.
That’s a good point Katie. Politicians don’t seem to grasp the irony of taking money from taxpayers to provide money to the children of taxpayers for college. Why not just tax the taxpayers less and let them send their own kids to college?
Means more money for the rest of us!
You just don’t get it Rob. You must take from the rich and give to the poor.
Despite the fact that there are thousands of scholarships available to people that do not have the money to afford college, they do not apply for them and instead complain.
Being dumb is quite different than being ignorant.
All I can say is good.
Perhaps the kids are too dumb to fill out the forms, perhaps they are just ignorant, or perhaps they are finding ways to do things on their own (which would be the best of the three). At any rate, they are not dragging the rest of us down and are not propping up the bureaucracies that drive this sort of thing.
The nice thing about this is that government budgets typically work on a don’t use it - lose it set up. So the less the students ask for their handouts, the less they can demand from the taxpayers.
Ahem…
I am a college student.
The FASFA is mentioned so many freaking times a year, it gets annoying. There is no excuse for not filling it out. We get mailed at least once with reminders (and also with every fee bill).
I take advantage of what I can get, but because my ‘rents are not classified as poor a$$ mofos, I get an unsubsidized loan. I have a friend whose father was laid off from a nice petrol-co job, and her family had to move to Penn and take up crappy part time jobs (her mom now works two jobs, one full time, other part) and she filled out the FASFA - Got enough money that she now has upwards of $2k coming back at her from refunds.
She is living totally at the expense of the Taxpayer, because she filled this out.
That being said, don’t tell kids about this (unless their your kids, then have at it) because it means more money for those who need it, but not as sorely.