US aid for college students slashed

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/11/23/us_aid_for_college_students_slashed?mode=PF

I can only express how I feel about this through a series of emoticons:



Seriously, leave behind all of the kids of poor and working class parents who rely on those scholarships. LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIND, assholes.

Education fees continue to rise, but these brilliant fucktards in office see it necessary to decrease aid for people who can barely afford it.

Way to improve the American economy. Fewer educated workers is -really- going to make things better.
(I am being sarcastic, OK.)


[Edited on Nov 26, 2004 by waldo]

Not as much aid for college = not as much kids going to college = more recruits for the military?

Don't listen to me, I'm just thinking out loud.

It could also be a sneaky way to let Americans compete with migrant workers for low wage jobs.
This is very shortsighted. They've got the funding to spend on a presidential yacht and other frivolous things but won't invest in the future. We've got the same problem with priorities where I live in regards to the 2010 Winter Olympics.

edited cause Wren posted too soon.

[Edited on Nov 26, 2004 by YAWG]

Just a hint: in Finland the universities are still almost
free for everyone, including foreign students. The fee (typically less than 100€) includes full health (also dental) care and some other benefits. There are lot of fully English programs, too...

so in addition to a 75 percent increase in fees and tuition last year and this year, now i get to deal with this.

i really feel like the powers that be just don't give a shit about people like me, and it makes me sad to think that they might have once.

i hope they don't televise the revolution on msnbc, because no one's going to know how to count to channel 57 by the time it happens.



[Edited on Nov 26, 2004 by painbearer]

C'mon people! Making education so expensive that only wealthy peopl e can afford it is obviously the meritocratic way!

The neocons claim they favour a system in which the individual gets by on his personal attributes but reinforce an education system completely at odds with that principle. Quite shocking.

No child left behind?

Yeah, Bush is always emphasising education as the panacea for all our economic woes. That and tax cuts.

it's all part of the plan. they WANT you to be stupid. you're easier to manipulate that way.

"...things are gonna slide
slide in all directions
won't be nothing
you can measure anymore..."

Yup...see, it's startin' already!

Ooooo
Nice Leonard Cohen quote.

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singin'.
Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettle drum.
Voices callin', voices cryin'.
Some are born an' some are dyin'.
It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.


catching a theme here?
when civilization starts working backwards, things will begin to slide and crumble.

That's a relief for those of us who file independently, but I feel for those who are still filing under their parent's/parents' income bracket. Ugh.

holy unlyrical lyrics!

this sucks I want money for school! I feel like stabbing people now!!

Just face the cold hard facts of life kids.

Not all of you can be managers at Denny's, some of you will have to cook.

Mr. President?

No. Mr. Reality.

If you can't see the irony of needing a college degree to work as a retail store manager then your education was a waste. Sorry to say it but you now need a degree to do obtain these positions. I hope most of you make better use of your college education. Become something. Don't waste your folks money and my tax dollars on bullshit degrees.