<p>If a person uses a coupon at a store that is sent to them, is that welfare? No guarantee the coupon was sent to everyone, and it is a discount from a cost. If students , like POIH’s dau, use discount programs offered for students at nearby restaurants, is that welfare? It is offered to students (who ask for it) but not to all customers. Guess POIH dau is on welfare or at the very least gets financial aid. But if it helps her manage her money, good for her.</p>
<p>'m neither rich nor have bottomless pit of money. I don’t look down upon people on ‘welfare’. But it seems most do that is why it’s so hard for these to accept the fact that being on “Financial Aid” is same as being on “Welfare”.
It’s the attitude problem. People would like to close welfare program for the needy but would like increasing share of FA.</p>
<p>jym626: FA is not a discount coupen that is sent to everyone. It’s a welfare program put in place as Oldfort indicated to attract students who otherwise won’t be able to attend.</p>
<p>How is that different from providing food stamp to people in the community who would other wise won’t be able to become part of the community?</p>
<p>How is that similar to discount program at a store?</p>
<p>Gee, lets see, POIH. In your first post you said:
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<p>and defined FA as :
So, by your very definition, your dau accepts financial aid from stores when she accepts a student discount, and by your definition is on welfare. You just said above that accepting financial aid is being on welfare. The stores offer discounts to attract poor starving students, just as schools offer financial aid to attract poor starving students. The amount may vary, but the concept is the same. So please stop with the insults. This whole thread is pretty insane.</li>
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<p>IIRC, you’ve suggested that financial aid, both need based and merit based, is all FA and therefore all “welfare”. Trying to point out that offering a discount of any kind is the same principal-- to attract customers who may or may not be able to pay more for the item being purchased, whether that item is a meal, a hairdo, an outfit or an education. So by your very own principal, people accepting a discount on the price of something is getting financial aid and is therefore on welfare. Get over it.</p>
<p>POIH…I do have to ask…why do you find this so important and why do you keep on posing the SAME comments over over. We get it…YOU think it’s “welfare” to accept need based financial aid. Some folks agree with you. Others don’t. Enough said. Time to move on to something more important. I just can’t imagine why you think this is important enough to keep harping and harping on the same subject.</p>
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Please do not agree with me if you don´t know what I am saying. I am saying it is NOT a welfare because it is a price a school needs to pay in order to attract such calibre of applicant.</p>
<p>According to POIH, we’re ALL receiving “welfare” of one kind or another. Per POIH’s definition, the largest amounts of welfare go to the wealthiest, via various tax advantages. So POIH, if it’ll make you happy, we’ll declare you Welfare King of College Confidential. Congratulations! </p>
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<p>Welfare is when someone else is sucking at the teat of government. Entitlement is when you are sucking at the teat…LOL!</p>
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<p>If you’re able to pay full freight at Harker and then at MIT – and still keep a roof over your head – then you’re a heck of a lot richer than I am. But then, you believe that those schools really shouldn’t be available to anyone who can’t pay full freight, right?</p>
<p>Touche, LasMa!</p>