Those voices don't speak for the rest of us

[beachFool]

Race is a determing factor for future student loans under the Federal Gov't. It never ends...

Calling BS.

I can not find any information to substantiate your claim.

 

[beachFool]

. They just call them stimulus jobs, scholarships, homestead exemptions, student loans, tax credits, and tax refunds instead of handouts.[/QUOTE]

Federally subsidized flood insurance and Medicare.

 

[scooterbug44]

Federally subsidized flood insurance, too

And car buyer credits, and first time homeowners, and Citizens hurricane insurance..............

 

[AndrewG]

Because the democrats expect them to pay for it?

Exactly.

My brother who lived in Seattle said the parking fee was on the honor system at the airport. Unfortunately the majority of people weren't paying so after 6 months they had to raise the fee for the honest folks that were paying. Not the best analogy but it's similar.

You're paying for your college and you're paying for theirs through taxes and higher tuition fees. Money doesn't grow on trees people.

 

[scooterbug44]

Exactly.

My brother who lived in Seattle said the parking fee was on the honor system at the airport. Unfortunately the majority of people weren't paying so after 6 months they had to raise the fee for the honest folks that were paying. Not the best analogy but it's similar.

You're paying for your college and you're paying for theirs through taxes and higher tuition fees. Money doesn't grow on trees people.

That is the stupidest argument I have ever heard.

You help people go to college because it benefits our country to have an educated populace - from a social, economic, and tax base perspective.

And while the government may help by making student loans, the majority of scholarships are from private sources - not your tax dollars.

 

[30ashopper]

Shopper, most of my republican friends think Pell Grants are a good idea.

If the only money Nanci and Harry were redistributing was for pell grants, we wouldn't have a problem. ;-)

 

[AndrewG]

Yes it's stupid to think that taxpayers somehow pay for this.

 

[gscunn]

I know it's none of my business and I guess that's the point I'm making in saying-

Hopefully you're anonymous on here or no one could ever trace this thread back to your daughter's friend (especially her). Lots of her dirty laundry being aired. The online world is a small one too.

I totally agree with you Geo and I would not want to hurt her in any way. Does anyone know how I can delete my post. I have had a few bad weeks and I was venting unnecessarily.

 

[Rita]

When affirmative action is working properly it isn't a HANDOUT nor is it giving an advantage to someone who is lacking in content of character. It is providing opportunity to someone with equally fine content of character who might not have had the opportunity otherwise.

I received financial aid in college. It was based simply on tax returns. My single mom worked two minimum wage jobs to send me to private schools all my life and then Uncle Sam helped out at the University of Illinois. I waited tables all through college and my mom still worked two jobs to send me some extra money (which I spent on beer but I digress).

Why all the stereotyping and generalizing? If you have the money to send your kids to school- great. If you don't (irrespective of your reasons or your work ethic) the good news is that in this country your kid might have some other options to help them out.

Why do folks who have done well complain that folks who haven't are getting help- like they are being cheated out of something. You've done well. You don't need help.

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I agree with you Geo. BUT we had to sit our daughter down (she enters college this year) and explain need-based and merit-based scholarships to her. Toward the end of the school year when scholarship offers started coming in and she saw a couple friends, who were good, actively involved students with potential to do well in college, get scholarships to the same school she applied; she asked me if it was wrong of her to feel resentful that they got them and she didn't. She knew that across the board her scores, grades, and accomplishments were better. For her getting the scholarship would have been recognition for all her hard work and achievements. These were need-based scholarships and she simply doesn't qualify.
I told her she could be upset that UT offers very few merit-based scholarships but to please not be resentful of top qualifying students who get the need-based ones. She got a handful of smaller scholarships she can use but she was looking for the big bucks! Ha! (I told her to keep looking. )


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[Geo]

Take this as a compliment.

If your daughter's grades and test scores are better than those of the kids who won the need based scholarships

and she comes from a supportive family with enough resources to make her ineligible for the need based awards

then I am so not at all worried about her or her chances for success.