Call me what you want, a freeloader, a communist. I do not care. Here are the facts. College used to be affordable, you could save up and pay for a semester, now you cannot. Seriously, you just can't.
I have a daughter who wants to be a teacher. I am supporting a husband who is disabled due to his time as an EMT saving people's lives. I work full time and have a ridiculous amount of student loans that I will NEVER pay off. Am I going to tell my daughter that she cannot be a teacher because I cannot afford to save up money to send her to college? NO.
At work, I am slowly working my way up the ranks from support staff (secretary) to professional (I have a master's degree). So this is good, but by the time she goes to college it will mean that she will get very little in aid from the state because supposedly I could afford to have saved enough to send her.
I don't take vacations, I don't even take staycations because I need my time for my husband and kids. So do not tell me that I am a freeloader. I want a better world for me and my kids. I want them to be able to get a college education and pursue the career that calls to them, that will make them most happy. Not rich, just happy in a regular job.
When my generation, and the ten years coming after me, fully reach the age in which the economy is expecting us to hold it up by buying cars and houses, they will get a rude awakening because there is NO way that I will EVER be able to afford a house. I cannot even get a new car because I just cannot afford it. This is life, this is what the high cost of college has done to us.
Circling drain anyone?
I have a daughter who wants to be a teacher. I am supporting a husband who is disabled due to his time as an EMT saving people's lives. I work full time and have a ridiculous amount of student loans that I will NEVER pay off. Am I going to tell my daughter that she cannot be a teacher because I cannot afford to save up money to send her to college? NO.
At work, I am slowly working my way up the ranks from support staff (secretary) to professional (I have a master's degree). So this is good, but by the time she goes to college it will mean that she will get very little in aid from the state because supposedly I could afford to have saved enough to send her.
I don't take vacations, I don't even take staycations because I need my time for my husband and kids. So do not tell me that I am a freeloader. I want a better world for me and my kids. I want them to be able to get a college education and pursue the career that calls to them, that will make them most happy. Not rich, just happy in a regular job.
When my generation, and the ten years coming after me, fully reach the age in which the economy is expecting us to hold it up by buying cars and houses, they will get a rude awakening because there is NO way that I will EVER be able to afford a house. I cannot even get a new car because I just cannot afford it. This is life, this is what the high cost of college has done to us.
Circling drain anyone?
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