paid by tax payers averaging $30,000 a year. The truth is that they can only get welfare for 5 years and maybe only 1 or 2% of Americans are permanently on govt assistance for life. Even Steve Jobs was on govt assistance for a while when he was in his 20's.

Bush's depression has made more govt assistance necessary. The option is many beggars on every street corner like a poor 3rd world country.
And its the Republicans who have slowly made education more and more expensive. College was FREE in California before Reagan became governor.

usually do it out of fear or jealousy. Why are they so jealous of someone disabled? Would he be willing to become disabled to "get everything handed to him and suck the living out of working people"? He fails to see he would have to lose everything or have nothing to be in the same "cushy" state as these people he's referring to.

its most likely funded by taxpayers. He can thank his local or state taxpayers for supporting his education since he is not paying the full cost even though he apparently isn't happy paying his small proportion of the cost.

Blindly supporting a candidate every 2-4 years, and/or supporting the termination of systems that, while they may be abused by a fraction of the people, are authentically needed by others, is like using a sledge-hammer for cabinetry.

Your friend and those like him should honestly research his problem and the systems he blames and make specific recommendations to the persons who administer those systems and to the public at large regarding the use of their collective resources.

Whether you get any or not is dependent on income and how you file your taxes. Also, financial aid is not the only way to pay for school. Community colleges have lots of scholarships to apply for, as well.

"There are some people I know just sitting on financial aid thinking the world owes them while they claim financial aide and sit on their asses gaming..." Seriously, he complains about the lack of financial aide (a federal "handout&quot when bemoaning Romney's loss (who would have gutted federal education money?!?!?)

There certainly needs to be money both for those needs, but it is just plain stupid to think it is an either/or situation. We can do both things, easily if we choose. Harder is doing those things while maintaining 2 wars, pursuing a failed drug enforcement policy, and transitioning into a manufacturing era much less dependent on physical laborers. Funding both social nets and education are exactly the pillars of the Democrats.

- Like denying the right of labor to collectively bargain?
- Like banning same sex couples from getting married?
- Like making public policies about a woman's vagina?
- Like denying autonomy over one's own body i.e. the war on drugs?
- Like denying Muslims from building places of worship?
- Like outlawing dildos in Texas? lol, sadly that is true
- Like forcing their religion onto others?
- Like attempting to deny people's right to vote?
- etc, etc

Everything about the republiCONS are ass backward isn't it.

Gangsters and members of the military and politburo who looted the nation after the collapse and fled to Europe and America to buy into the trans-Atlantic casino with what they stole.