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Student loans pillage students

“For the past several weeks, college students have been awaiting their much-needed student loans, which have still yet to arrive. As the years have gone by, many have grown increasingly disgruntled with FAFSAs way of doling out financial aid to the masses because they fall on the cusp between affluence and poverty, a place where there’s not enough financial assistance and not enough income to completely pay for school.”

For the past several weeks, college students have been awaiting their much-needed student loans, which have still yet to arrive.

As the years have gone by, many have grown increasingly disgruntled with FAFSAs way of doling out financial aid to the masses because they fall on the cusp between affluence and poverty, a place where there’s not enough financial assistance and not enough income to completely pay for school.

Unfortunately, FAFSA will not allow these students to file independently from their parents, even if they haven’t lived off their income since high school. Many don’t even live at home anymore.

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After struggling these past few years to pay both everyday bills as well as school bills, these students are left wondering – what kind of help is out there for those who are neither rich nor poor?

Why does the government feel that, because they’re in the middle of the economic scale that these students don’t also deserve or need help?

These students ought to get a little more assistance, especially when it comes to higher education, because they are the fulcrum that balances the upper and lower classes.

They hold the entire economic system together.

Can’t the proverbial they see that, or are they just content to live in their upper-class blissful ignorance?

Sadly, no matter how much Obama tries to advocate change and instate different types of systems for those in the middle class, nothing will really adjust until the minds of those in this country follow suit.

Perhaps one day the government will realize that the middle class is a valuable asset to this society, and perhaps one day they will do a little more to help the middle class rise from the dust of menial labor jobs and waitressing gigs to college-educated white collar success – without owing sixty-grand for it.

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