Federal Financial Aid

I got really mad the other day about this. I was watching something on TV - can't remember now - but it was 'live' (meaning I had no DVR power) and couldn't fast forward the commercials. So, I'm watching this commerical and it's this hispanic guy telling his sob story about growing up having to watch his classmates drive to school in new cars, wearing designer clothes while he had to ride his bike to school and wear his brother's second hand clothes , blah blah blah. But, he didn't care that made him who he was and gave him more determination to 'make it'. His parents couldn't afford to send him to college but with the help of FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID . . .

Well, that's about all of that that I could take. I went outside for a smoke and I had this epiphany . . .

My kid is going to college and amassing student loans every year because I can’t afford to just write a check for her college education but because I work and make a decent living she doesn’t qualify for FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID.

I mean really, I can’t afford to send my kid to college and YET, I am paying for someone else’s kid to go to college! Where’s the ‘Social Justice’ in that? Shouldn’t tax payer’s children have first dibs on FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID? That is funded with my money. Money that I worked for and was forced to give them. I want to see what the hell they do with it. I want to see a study of how many people who get FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID actually graduate and go on to be productive members of society. How many are now paying for somebody else’s kid to go to college?!?

It’s waaaay past time for Congress to be reminded that any money they have to fund anything is because we all work to give it to them!

I’m Just Saying . . .