College students going hungry?

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

But they can afford cars and fuel to pick up meals. Am I missing something? Had a big segment on the news yesterday and today wanting people to donate cash for this program.

Even though this clip is 2 years old, its one of several I found.

 

Edited August 13 by Marshal Dan Troop 70448

[Alpo]

That kid from Columbia, that said he was homeless. Who's paying for his college?

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Marshal Dan Troop 70448 said:

But they can afford cars and fuel to pick up meals. Am I missing something? Had a big segment on the news yesterday and today wanting people to donate cash for this program.

Even though this clip is 2 years old, its one of several I found.

 

 

And they can afford cell phones and the expenses that go with them, designer/name brand T-shirts and expensive shoes. None of them look like they've been "hungry" for very long.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

20 minutes ago, Alpo said:

That kid from Columbia, that said he was homeless. Who's paying for his college?

 

You have ro ask...?    

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

That kid from Columbia, that said he was homeless. Who's paying for his college?

Us

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

None of them look anything at all like being underfed.

[Texas Maverick]

After Bidens bill to make us pay their education costs they aren't paying for anything. We are. Sorry no sympathy from me on this. Where are their parents? I sure didn't take them to raise but the guvment is saying I have to.

 

TM

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

I think ya have that wrong 

 

 the collage folks are doing the indoctrination for the government

 

and we are expected to pay for it 

 

  CB 

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

I read an article about free breakfast and lunches for grade school students. A lot of states offer them to all students with no qualifying requirements.  They say approximately 40% could qualify for subsidized meal. So we pay more then double, unnecessarily, to feed kids whose families can afford to feed their kids. 

They say it would be a burden on the poorer parents to fill out paperwork to receive their free meals. Of course many of them are at home, not working, so they should have time for this burden. They don't acknowledge the burden of taxpayers paying the extra money to feed others kids. 

[Eyesa Horg]

10 minutes ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:

I read an article about free breakfast and lunches for grade school students. A lot of states offer them to all students with no qualifying requirements.  They say approximately 40% could qualify for subsidized meal. So we pay more then double, unnecessarily, to feed kids whose families can afford to feed their kids. 

They say it would be a burden on the poorer parents to fill out paperwork to receive their free meals. Of course many of them are at home, not working, so they should have time for this burden. They don't acknowledge the burden of taxpayers paying the extra money to feed others kids. 

Our state recently started the same. I'm now paying just shy of a grand a month in education taxes and never had a kid! 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Yes...every college student comes from ultra rich leftist families, is majoring in Marxist Economics and LGBTQ Idology, eats all meals from Applebees and Carl's Junior-delivered by Grubhub, and has $350,000 is government backed student loans.  They buy the newest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy as soon as it comes out, and drive $100,000 dollar cars. 

Not like when WE went to college, had to study Latin, Rhetoric, Calculus, Logic, Music, and Astronomy and had to hand copy all our texts with quill pens.

 

Things have changed a bit in the last century.  Now computers and cellphones are pretty much required, lots of class information is online, and instructors often rely on text messaging to communicate with students.  

 

Edited August 14 by Subdeacon Joe

[Blackwater 53393]

I took night classes at a new Junior College  that I drove seventy miles round trip four nights a week to attend.

 

I held down two jobs, one full time, paid up front for my classes, paid a car note, paid for gas, and bought my own books and paid for two meals a day.

 

I also paid my folks $35.00 a week room and board.  That covered one meal, access to the laundry, use of the home phone, a place to sleep, and shower.

 

I passed up an athletic/academic partial scholarship because I was weary of classrooms and got an opportunity to go racing for a couple of years.

 

This was 1973-75. I maintained a strong B average and I have used much of what I learned.

My folks paid for my sister’s education. Four years of college at three different institutions, expenses, a meal ticket, and her books.  They received some scholarship support and a Pell grant. She went on to law school and received a degree that she has never used!!  She DID take a summer job that paid for clothes and extras and she worked in a bank while taking her law classes.

 

My folks couldn’t afford to put both of us through school and I had been drawing a paycheck since I was fourteen!

Neither of us received any school loans.

 

My oldest grandson didn’t want to go to college.  He’s beginning an apprenticeship with the steam fitters and will have a skill that will make him lots of money!

 

Nobody in my immediate family has any school loans and they ain’t going hungry either!

 

I think that these students should be required to work some kind of job, preferably in the field that they are supposedly preparing for in order to offset some or all of their education expenses unless they’re receiving a full scholarship or paying for that education up front,

 

OR GO OUT AND GET A DAMNED JOB!!!

 

 

 

Edited August 15 by Blackwater 53393