Father-daughter chat

[Gunslinger]

First, This is rubbish....there are SOOOOOO many opportunities for the poor now a days that it makes me sick for somone to sit there and go woe is me I never got to go to college.  Grants loans scolorships affirmative action.

Second, I know roofers and construction workers that make a hell of alot more money than a college grad (being broad there I know) and even those people have SOOOOOO many opportunities to get a degree through night school and such.  

I dont really know were to start on nexus.  He's obviously been brain washed or somthing....or maybe...GW pissed in his cherios...thats gotta  be it.

[Maverick]

Ahem,

The idea that only the children of the rich can go to college is a crock. The idea that only the children who have parents that can afford to send them to college is a crock.

I started college in 71, My father died of complications from TB more than 11 years before. I grew up on the remnants of his VA and social security benifits. I applied for multiple scholarships after making DAMN sure my grades in HS were up to par. I had the honor roll for every semester but the first two.

I got a scholarship for the first 2 years of college and a small grant for books / lab fees the first year. After my freshman year I did the only thing that kept me in school. I got a job. I worked gas stations and pushed a broom. Later I got a really great student job. I worked every other night and weekend in a mortuary. I did that for almost 3 years. After that I was a security guard until I graduated after 4.5 years of college. I was also in ROTC and that helped pay as the student gets to the third and fourth year the ROTC program pays you a minor amount for 9 months of the year.

I saved my money and had my own place as well. I paid all my own expenses including car and insurance. My entire college education cost my mother $50.00 as she helped me buy books one semester. I paid her back at least $50.00 out of every paycheck I got for over 20 years.

After I retired I went back to school and got a Masters. Again I was able to get funding. After becoming very disenchanted with teaching school I decided to get my A&P and work on planes since I have always loved flying and it makes owning my own that much cheaper.

Don't try to tell me there are no oportunities to get scholarships and grants. I got 2 grants to help pay for my A&P while most of the students simply *****ed about how hard it was to fill out the forms. More than half of the scholarships available went unused as no one applied. The guy in class that *****ed the loudest about school costs had been unemployed for over a year but he still wouldn't apply for a scholarship, even after some of us showed him a couple he qualified for.

If you want to go to school get off you dead bellybutton and work for it. The world does NOT owe you a living and neither does this country. It just gives you the oportunity to go to school. It's up to you to get an education. The only person holding you back is the one in the mirror. If you can't convince him / her that it's important then just STFU and go pout in the corner.

[Twist]

I couldn't agree more, you want it, work for it.

You want a car? Work for it.

You want a college degree? Work for it.

You want a high paying job with good benny's? Work for it.

You want a nice house in a good neighborhood? Work for it.

Want to put your kids in a nice school and buy them Nintendo games, Faith skateboards, Etnie clothing, flight sims and CH combat sticks , music CD's, jewelry and RC cars? Work for it.

Want to complain because I have all of the above and you think it's unfair? Piss off.

My parents gave me nothing but the desire to continually improve myself, the rest was up to me.

Darnit Mav....ya went and got me all peeved at work....

[GRUNHERZ]

I find the whole rich evil people argument kinda wierd. When my family came to the USA we were living 5 people in one apartment and money was tight - in fact my father got laid off just days before he got the rest of us to America. But he worked hard and now he has money and can afford to pay my schooling and that of my sister. Did he just get this money from out his butt? No he worked for it because his goal was for him and his children to have a better life  than before. And you know what, growing up in Yugoslavia before where it was sometimes difficult to buy new school clothes and shoes for us kids I dont feel one bit guilty.

The world is out there, it's full of opprtunity you just gotta grab em... And frankly I dont mind one bit I dont have to suffer the privations of my youth any longer and even moreso those that my father had to endure.

God Bless America!

[midnight Target]

The father slowly smiled and said, "Welcome to the Republican Party.... where someday you too can make up rediculous stories that some people will actually think make a point." Then they hugged as the daughter thought how she was ever going to tell her dad that she was pregnant, and it was one of those guys on the basketball team! But which one?

[Maverick]

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The father slowly smiled and said, "Welcome to the Republican Party.... where someday you too can make up rediculous stories that some people will actually think make a point." Then they hugged as the daughter thought how she was ever going to tell her dad that she was pregnant, and it was one of those guys on the basketball team! But which one?
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Since the dear girl was both a california blonde AND a democrat she couldn't possibly narrow down the responsible boy out of the entire varsity team.

[Lazerus]

hey maverick..................... .