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Just a thought from an old timer.......Do like most of us working stiffs do. IF YOU CAN't AFFORD COLLEGE, YOU DO NOT GO!
The old school train of thought is you have absolute necessities in life. 1. Food 2. Shelter 3. Transportation. Anything else is extra, and if you can not afford it, you do without.

Even with working a part-time job, it is still difficult for college students to have enough money with prices of things the way they are, and college books so expensive. Perhaps if more scholarships and financial aid went to the hardworking middle class American parents to finance outrageously expensive tuitions, we could afford to give our children more spending money to live on.

Please,let us consider these studentss on an individual needs basis. Do not "lump everyone together". I know how you feel because I am a taxpayer and I hate to see people cheat the system too.I have a relative who is a freeloader on the system and on friends and other relatives! We are in the process of having her prosecuted to the fullest! But there are honest people who have not had the opportunity to lift themselves up. I do feel for them. Thank you.

maybe you were not hungry during your college yrs..
Why not help to feed students and help them to better themselves so they can become self sufficient when they are in the work force..
young people deserve the opportunity.

it is not just the collage students. kids now, that are just getting out on there own use food stamps and government aide as a crutch. with a society of excess, and always wanting more, we have not taught our kids how to live on less.

There is more to it then the designer jeans that they HAVE to have 5 pair of, the gadgets and toys that are on there car, or the 5000 stereo system that is worth more then their car.

it is time that we teach our children the responsibility of money and how to use it. wether they are 1 or 31.

Why should students get foodstamps when people like myself who live on fixed income can't get them,or even worse to"sell your house then you'llhave some money". These are people who doesn't have worry about how will I buy food and meds this month? personally I think it STINKS!!!!!

Entirely typical of what becomes of government programs! The do-gooder bureaucrats want to be everything to everyone, creating as many clients as possible, & politicians go about "buying" as many votes as possible. This creates thieves of honest people, requiring another army of bureaucrats to police their programs.
A recent President was right: Government is not the solution to the problem; government IS the problem!" The only thing we can afford, ultimately, is for private interests to meet genuine need with donated resources.

They shouldn't be, for students. When my husband & I were first married, I was eligible for food stamp assistance, but he wasn't. Why? He was a student. They used to consider that a lifestyle choice, and if you didn't wish to work a few hours a week for a paycheck, you weren't eligible for the handouts.

I am a student myself so I know how hard it is. Alot of students have applied for grants and loans to pay for school, its not like they have alot of money just laying around. Yes, they can work and help themslves out, most do, and those are the ones who deserve all the help they can get. ANYONE with the drive and will power can get an education, don't try to make it harder for them, they are the ones who will be taking care of you when you need help in the future. I would rather help a future doctor or lawyer feed themselves today, then to have them to tired to remember something important when on a case. Think about it.

this system is broken..it was intended to help those through tough times not a way of life...we are all at fault for letting illegal people, foreighn people not willing to work and assuming we will take care of them when we have american working class paying, paying , paying can't get any assistance for living for their children for college...and their are groups of people receiving everything for FREE.....while we struggle and support this broken system which we can not even use for ourselves or our college paying working children. That was not the intentions of our forefathers idea to help during difficult times not give the fish to them teach them to fish and be responsible for themselves and their 100s of children they cannot afford at all.....drug addicts allowed to have children, welfare people allowed to keep having children, poverty level living on the system generation after generation and my family loses a job after 20 years and can't receive anything from the govt we have supported thru votes, paying TAXES, paying TAXES supporting our community living correctly....where is the justice...something, someone, soon has to stop this disgusting situation and we need to make a stand and stop, stop these freeloaders....and if you need help you better be asking in ENGLISH like all our ancestors had to.......UUUGGGHHHH S

Not to blame you as a gov't worker, but think about this: A taxpayer walks in your office. They provide all the proof of their life in one meeting. Nothing missing. They are now unemployed, have never been "in the system" for any gov't assistance. Four weeks go by. They are asked over and over again for the very same information they had given on the first meeting. Why does this happen?

The middle class is in such a bind right now. I know it isn't much money that is given, but to get the money that they have paid into the system for 20-40 years is such a hassle. I truly believe that it is to discourage us. Yet the drug addicts and foreigners seem to fly by for years. I wonder what their secret is?

An analogy is like putting money in your savings account for 20 years. You go in to make a withdrawal and the bank says, "Sorry, Raul or Ashmed needs it more than you do, we're giving your money to him".

If you can't afford the university that you attend, the most sensible option would be the attend a different school. Here in the United States, we are blessed/cursed with more than five thousand accredited colleges and universities.

How in the world did you get int debt? Fancy clothes? Night clubbing. Get a life

I just read your post, and I sympathize with your problem. My daughter is in college and I know the high cost of books, but let me let you in on a little secret, shhhh, dont tell anyone, I found out that college books are a lot cheaper on the internet than at the university book store or even at at used bookstore, a book that would normaly cost $150.00 we have paid as little as $19.00, go to Amazon.com and you will find your books...hope this helps