{"id":4948,"date":"2009-10-19T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2010-01-13T07:13:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:13:35","slug":"the-meaning-of-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/the-meaning-of-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> columnist discovers that government aid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/columnists.nsf\/jimgallagher\/story\/D6A0F793BBDDAB938625765200086E91?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">helps the irresponsible<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul><i>Let&#8217;s consider two families with kids. The first mom and pop buy fancy cars, head off to Vegas, buy the biggest house they can afford. They take a lackadaisical attitude toward work and generally blow money.<\/p>\n<p>The next mom and pop work hard and advance in their careers. They drive clunkers, vacation in Porchville, live modestly and sock away savings.<\/p>\n<p>Guess which family is going to get the most financial aid when their kid heads off to college?<\/p>\n<p>Hedonism has rewards beyond a good suntan, and they come in the form of college financial aid. The federal financial aid formula punishes thrift and hard work. <\/i><\/ul>\n<p>The aid system for whatever need-based program offers the government money not only helps people who need it through bad circumstance, but also those who either game the system or who are irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>Then the column goes on to show parents <i>how to game the system<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Swell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist discovers that government aid helps the irresponsible: Let&#8217;s consider two families with kids. The first mom and pop buy fancy cars, head off to Vegas, buy the biggest house they can afford. They take a lackadaisical attitude toward work and generally blow money. The next mom and pop work hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-federal-government","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}