You Have Two Legs...You Can Afford to Give Us One
There's no doubt that one of the best ways to really screw the middle class is to try and wring every last nickel and dime out of their pockets by hitting them where they love.
Yeah, I'm talking about college.
The costs are ridiculous.
The process is abysmal.
The loans are being handed out by sharks.
And there's not much you can do about it.
Think of it.
What is the number one wish of every single responsible parent out there?
Yeah, set up the kids.
Yet here I am on the verge of leaving middle age, and there are days when I wonder why we are paying so much freaking money so that our kid can sit in a classroom with a bunch of other kids...all paying a fortune for their schooling.
Of course, our boy is at a good school, and yes, he's staying on campus, and we definitely needed to get him a meal plan, but that much money?
And the financial aid people have been talking to my wife and supposedly they figure out how much you can actually afford for the kid to go to school, and they try their best to extract every single penny. I guess we are supposed to send one kid to school and serve Ramen noodles to the two still at home.
And now the loan rates are doubling?
I know some kids who get out of school and end up owing about $100 grand.
How are they ever gonna' work that off? And to top it off, half of them are working at Target after graduation.
It's so much fun to vent here, right?
Yet the deal is I went to school, at a private college, just twenty-five years ago. The cost was about 5 grand a year.
It's about 35 grand a year now.
Same school.
Same education.
Kill the middle class.
By using their children against them.
Yeah, I'm talking about college.
The costs are ridiculous.
The process is abysmal.
The loans are being handed out by sharks.
And there's not much you can do about it.
Think of it.
What is the number one wish of every single responsible parent out there?
Yeah, set up the kids.
Yet here I am on the verge of leaving middle age, and there are days when I wonder why we are paying so much freaking money so that our kid can sit in a classroom with a bunch of other kids...all paying a fortune for their schooling.
Of course, our boy is at a good school, and yes, he's staying on campus, and we definitely needed to get him a meal plan, but that much money?
And the financial aid people have been talking to my wife and supposedly they figure out how much you can actually afford for the kid to go to school, and they try their best to extract every single penny. I guess we are supposed to send one kid to school and serve Ramen noodles to the two still at home.
And now the loan rates are doubling?
I know some kids who get out of school and end up owing about $100 grand.
How are they ever gonna' work that off? And to top it off, half of them are working at Target after graduation.
It's so much fun to vent here, right?
Yet the deal is I went to school, at a private college, just twenty-five years ago. The cost was about 5 grand a year.
It's about 35 grand a year now.
Same school.
Same education.
Kill the middle class.
By using their children against them.
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