Re: Another inept Bush pal leaves FEMA

["mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

50 grand a year for university? That's downright criminal.

"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
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> |> ...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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>
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