Re: Another inept Bush pal leaves FEMA

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yah. Welp that's everything except books and 'puter.
My degrees didn't cost anything near that!


"mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| 50 grand a year for university? That's downright criminal.
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| "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > Yes, for lack of a better word...more like bait and switch. And all
| > financial aid means is that you get to freekin borrow a ton of money at
a
| > low rate. Last year it was 4.1%, this year it's 6.something%. It's not
| "aid"
| > really...I will be in my 60's when I have to start paying the principal,
| its
| > screwed.
| >
| > The first year he got 6k "teaser" grant and some work-study and took 5K
| > loan - the rest of the 40K I had to borrow.
| >
| > The second year (this year) he got 3K of the now 45K it cost to go there
| and
| > NO work-study. Then he borrowed 5K and I have to borrow the rest.
| >
| > In the mean time there are kids at his school with grades not as good as
| > his, who come from "less advantaged positions in life" and from other
| > countries that get FULL rides. How is that fair? I've worked my freekin
| butt
| > off and so has he getting 3.8 gpa all through high school & 1st year of
| > college, paying oodles of taxes, and keeping people employeed for 20
years
| > and we get a pittance and less qualified kids get full rides. They only
| have
| > to keep a C gpa to keep their aid..big freekin deal. We reward the wrong
| > people in this country. Why do they deserve full rides, with less
| > qualifications? Because they're from disadvantaged homes (or
| whatever)...I'm
| > gonna be in the poor house paying this off...then they can support me I
| > guess. This country has it's head up its butt.
| >
| > Its bullshit.
| >
| >
| > "Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:ifvhi1ptfci8mgjveg5qq0hbh6p2rm0nl9@xxxxxxxxxx
| > |> ...this year we got even less money from financial aid
| > | > than last year...
| > |
| > | Oh, so you got financial aid?
| > |
| > | > I'll be freeking working till I'm 90 to pay off these
| > | > loans. Ha...try and get help if you're middleclass!
| > |
| > | But you just said you got financial aid.  That does qualify as
| > | "help" as best I can tell.
| > |
| > | > The poor get the aid and the rich just write
| > | > out a check for full tuition. The middleguys
| > | > get screwed big time - and I mean big time.
| > |
| > | I don't know where on the financial spectrum you fall, but if
| > | you're a typical alarm installer you're in the "lower middle
| > | class".  If you're Joe, make that the "without" class.  :^)
| > | --
| > |
| > | Regards,
| > | Robert L Bass
| > |
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