Free Money

Somebody give this kid a tissue, first of all.  Please, stop wiping your nose with your hand!

The taxpayers of the United States have supported this young man for 3 years of college and in excess of $70,000.  In all that time, he has neither learned how to be an honest man, use proper grammar, nor how to use a tissue.  I think he owes the taxpayers a refund.

“I’m me.”

The world does not owe him anything for being the player he is, but he thinks it does because it’s “free money” and “I’m me.”

This is the world we have created by rewarding people for laziness.  We instill in these able-bodied people that they are entitled to this “free money” which isn’t free to the people who have jobs and and actually pay the taxes.  Perhaps it’s because we have removed the shame from receiving handouts in our society, that this able bodied young man is in school and living on our dime and not working!  There are work-study programs on every campus, and manual labor jobs enough that workers are coming from Mexico to do them…and yet this man is not working…and I have a feeling that’s not going to change any time soon.  He’s becoming a musician.

I have nothing against musicians.  (I am, in fact, a little in awe of them.)  I know and love many musicians.  I also know that none of the ones I know are able to make a living with their music.  They need to have a real job to support themselves.  The music is a beloved hobby.  Which means that, unless this young man is more talented with music than he is with morals or speaking, that the taxpayers of this country are funding his hobby.

We will get no return on that investment.

Why do we not insist that the money we give to educate the next generation will go to pay for things we need…like engineers, scientists, accountants, teachers, doctors, nurses, etc.?  Once they have careers they will be free to pay for their own further studies in art, music, medieval British literature, etc.

In a world of fiscal surplus, we would have the money to throw away on this young man’s music education (could we include Kleenex 101…please?), but the world in which we live has shortfalls and deficits, and paying this player to go out to eat while his sugar-mama is not paying the rent at home is a bit of craziness we just can’t afford.

(Before you slam me for hating the handicapped…again…I am talking about young people like this one who are able bodied and sponging off of the rest of us.  This is not okay!)