| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Bill Hodges,)
If they want to buy, sell, trade, or share herb or or other substances while going to school, then they need to forego the financial aid option and instead seek other ways of funding their education.
... No one owes anyone a free ride. If you want to dig into other people's pockets for your own benefit, then you need to abide by the rules set forth by those people allowing you to use their money. Again, if you are too stupid or inept to abide by those rules, find alternative sources to fund your pursuits.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
College loans aren't free rides. In fact, they would be a lot worse for a fiscal conservative because there's a heavy amount of interest that accrues when the student pays it back. That means you pay more for college than the student who pays for it out of their parent's pocket. But for students who use drugs all through college (particularly marijuana,) and recieve student loans, they eventually prove, through academic merit, that they are smart enough to earn a degree or two. Heck, they may have taken the extra step and set up an internship and/or job offer after their graduation and actually blend in with the rest of society and make money for themselves while paying back their loan. They might have also have spent a good portion of their money on bars, or on marijuana, grown locally in a friend's residence, not from a 'cartel' in Juarez, Mexico. This has been just an example of a student, not able to afford college because their parents aren't set up to afford it. Perhaps this student realizes that the rules created for using federal aid are flawed because they exempt students that are convicted of rape, arson or have problems with alcohol addiction. |