Need I mention that for most people SS is not a handout. It's your money the government took away from you and is now giving it back.
you can not collect SSI until the age of 62 before that age they will let you starve
GG, I still challenge you to tell me how many thousands are starving in the USA. Best data I see is maybe 100/year, and most of that is abuse/neglect. I'd love to see that number at zero, but 100 is a miniscule number. When you compare that to just about any other country in the world.
Have a safe trip.
I agree to a point, but I have to point something out.If somebody want to run 100,000 in debt to do what they love, great, but don't ask the tax payer to pay for it. Your debt, you pay it.
And how kids got to this point is something I can not understand. . . they have a role model of a parent, or both, who work hard to provide. Was it the lack of parenting? Did they get handed everything they wanted? Or is it their friends influences that made them this way? Or both??One of my egg customers said they are working 7 days per week and the young people refuse to work.
He said that he has a family, so he works as much as he can.
Many, not all, but many of today's youth, are spoiled rotten little brats.
And how kids got to this point is something I can not understand. . . they have a role model of a parent, or both, who work hard to provide. Was it the lack of parenting? Did they get handed everything they wanted? Or is it their friends influences that made them this way? Or both??
I agree that has been a BIG influence in today's kids. . . that is lack of parenting in my opinion. But then if parents are working outside of the home and the kids have no supervision, than that is what kids are going to do because that is what their friends are doing. It is a vicious circle with no win.I blame Computers and video games
I agree to a point, but I have to point something out.
Banks make loans with the expectation of getting the money back, plus interest. They profit from loaning money.
If a student gets a GSA, we're not giving them the money. They're paying it back--often with interest--and society benefits because we have another educated person (or, maybe, a person with a degree would be a better way of putting it. People can be self-educated, and have more smarts than a person with a degree....but I digress) in the work force.
A long term investment is not the same as a hand-out.
I don't neccesarily approve of government handouts to finance education except under certian strange, oddball circumstances that don't apply here.Kevin, the last line can be taken either way. Either that you are OK with gov't eating the cost of college degrees (stealing from taxpayers)? Or do you mean an individual treating a college degree and a big student loan as an investment in their future? I'm assuming the latter. With that, there is a big flaw. I'd guess that a healthy third of college degrees never are expected to yield a decent salary. We used to joke about girls going to college to get their M.R.S. degree, and many did. I get it, it was a means to an end. But today far too many kids are going to college because mom & dad said so. They don't want to work; they're not really interested in their major; and they don't apply themselves. I would hardly call that an 'investment', and it's not hard to see which students are wasting time and money.
I disagree with the "moms then" side of the equation.
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