Starving College Students Turning to Food Stamps

You sound so very bitter. Why are you so angry? Because you weren't able to get an education? FYI, the majority of college students do work but the pay it's just not enough. How dare you tell anyone to drop out of college and become a loser like you!! Lock yourself in your closet if you're so angry with the world!!!

It is not easy being in college working a job, going to classes, take care of home work takes up so much time and you have very little money comeing from it. I never had any money to just go out and buy food. I had to work my way through college other wise I would never have been able to finish school. Even now that I have my degree it is still no cake walk working a min wage job just getting by just like in college when things should be eaiser. You have no idea what it is like and just because we are young doesn't mean we don't need help.

This is not news. Students have been using and appplying for food stamps since I was in college in 1972. Really?

Hey, Flying J, why don't you takea flying ****? Do you know what it's like not to eat for two or three days because you have to pay for heat or healthcare? If it were possible, I'd suggest you try to put yourself in these kid's shoes and imagine what kind of tough choices they have to make. Take a break from being so judgemental and bitter.

Oh, yeah, that's a bright plan ... drop out of college and get a minimum-wage job (if you can find one in California) and you'll be on food stamps forever.

In WV, the only way that you can be eligible for food stamps is you are over 65, have a disability, or if you have children. After meeting those guidelines then they check for income.

You're a JERK! what kind of advice is that saying drop out of college and get a job????? Are you just ignorant? They're going to college so they can get good jobs and NOT have to get food stamps you idiot! How dare you begrudge young people food who are trying to get an education to better themselves!

Get a life. Everyone needs help at one point in their life. Jesus responds would be so different than yours. I pray God's blessing on you.

Absolutely not! It's not called freeloading. Your generation really did a job on the country and now the young people are struggling to pick up the pieces. I personaly think we should get rid of education completely and have everyone get a job like our grandfathers had. This generation is going through something not seen since the great depression. It was your generation that bought everything in sight that got us into this mess. You tell me whose the freeloader!

Californians have come to view free college, cheap electricity and cheap rents and now add to the list of free heath care and free food as birthrights. Why bother even getting an education-because it's free? They are no more willing to give up the proverbial free lunch than to forsake beautiful Pacific Ocean sunsets. The state's current energy crisis is just one symptom of this intransigence. As college, electricity and housing crises multiply, however, more and more Californians may come to realize what all that education hasn't taught them: There really is no free lunch.

I THINK KIDS IN COLLEGE SHOULD GET FOOD STAMPS. AT LEAST THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING WITH THEIR LIFE. THE ONES SHOULDNT GET THEM ARE THE ONES THAT KEEPS HAVING BABIES AND NEVER WORKED A DAY IN THEIR LIFE. DIDNT FINISH SCHOOL JUST SIT AROUND ALL DAY EATING AND WATCHING TV AND WE ARE PAYING FOR IT.. SO LET THE STUDENTS HAVE FOOD STAMPS OR THE SCHOOLS SHOULD DO SOMETHING TO FEED EVERYONE OF THEM

U need to get a life and stop being so bitter. Im a college and have a full time job. I do get help from family members and if I need food stamps to get by while TRYING TO GET A EDUCATION unlike yourself then I should be considered for it. It would only be temporary until I get a good paying job with my degree. Maybe you should go back to school and get a new look on life

Flying J is right. If you can't feed yourself, than you should go to school less and work more. It may take longer to get through school but at least you did it on your own. Where's the sense of pride in this country, anymore? Why is taking a handout okay? When will those that 'take' learn that NO ONE in this country owes you anything?!? I worked hard for what I have. My divorced mother worked three part-time jobs to make ends meet for the three of us. She didn't get support payments. She only had a G.E.D. so she didn't make much. We wouldn't have ever taken food stamps or any other type of welfare and we got by just fine. Shop at thrift stores. Go to Aldi for food. Do without your iPod, new laptop computers and cable television and you'll actually be all right. Have some pride in yourselves, People! EARN your way.

Lily...we didn't have the money to go to college and didn't suck off the taxpayers' money Simple as that. So we didn't get foodstamps either. And we voted against Obama. So there. AND we will vote in November of this Year Of Our Lord, 2010.

Youre very insensitive and not to mention stupid. Lots of people that shouldnt be are using our social systems but our college students deserve this aid. They can't do well in school if theyre hungry. Besides when they graduate from college these people will then contribute back to the very system that helped them.

@ Flying J: Are you a truck driver?....or are you making a living as a lot lizard and, or 'cleaning' trucks at truck stops?

lol. whats with the name calling? so to the people saying you should drop out of school to get a job; do you not realize that you have to go to school to become a lot of important things? [ex. nurse, dr, vet, surgen, cop, firefighter] with out people going to school we all will be screwed. a lot of these students get their money for school from scolarships, and things like that. many get money to go to school based on grades or contests they have won in high school anyways. at my school they gave money to the students who got the best grades in each subject basically. my best friend got one for floral design/horticulture. with out that, and a few thosand in loans she got she is now a sr in college working on becoming a hort teacher. she has a full time job, and still is struggling to pay for everything. you have to think, a full time student [or even part] still has to live somewhere, pay for their living, their transportation, FOOD, books, health care, etc] now picture a world that you demand everyone to live in, hardly any drs or surgens, teachers, etc [cuz not many people had the mony to take all the classes] but you bet there will be a lot of shopping places, and gas stations, sice not many people will be educated to to much of anything else. now your poor 5 year old comes down with lukimia or meningitus [sp] what could anyone do? besides watch everyone that got sick die. oh, and if your house cought on fire, geuss what...it will take you quite some time to get it put out, since there will be no firefighters/ems let alone the company that made the fire hoses since you would need a scientest and a person that knows a lot of math to make them. oh and you can kiss any kind of med, or food or anything really good bye, since the fda uses scientests to test the products, and geuss what, there wont be any with the lack of college kids.
nice life you want. lol.

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