Well next time, don't get on that Democrat / OFA bus! - Granite Grok

Well next time, don’t get on that Democrat / OFA bus!

Stories abound about how the college kids were turned out on election day for Obama – and the down ticket Democrats as well.  Send the vans!  Send the buses!  Getting the college kids on board (literally and figuratively) for voting for Obama was a big part of their game plan and they did NOT disappoint.  Overwhelmingly they did their duty for The Won.  And now we see how bright they were in being “useful idiots” that are now learning a very important life lesson (emphasis mine, reformatted):

A contingent of University of Kansas graduate students have launched a petition opposing a proposal by campus officials to slash the number of maximum weekly hours graduate student employees may work from 30 to 20 – a plan concocted by administrators to skirt Obamacare mandates.  “We do not wish to see graduate employees lose employment opportunities that are crucial for paying their bills, feeding themselves and their families, and generally establishing a decent standard of living,” the petition states, according to the campus Daily Kansan.

Welcome to the real world – the world outside of the Ivory Tower that leans further Left than the Tower of Pisa.  No, no one wants anyone to go hungry, pay the bills, or anything like  of the sort, but to some degree, there is that tinge of “I DESERVE that standard of living” as if UK is responsible for their well-being.  I worked 4 jobs to pay for my own schooling sophomore year onward so to be honest, I don’t have a lot of excess sympathy here.  I learned that if you have a goal that is THAT important to you, you WILL do what it takes to get there.  They will have to learn the same. 

The proposal is on the table as a way for the public institution to meet the employer mandate to provide health insurance for all employees working 30 hours a week or more, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. At a recent student government meeting during which this issue was broached, one of the grad students leading the charge, Pantaleon Florez, asked the audience who had taken a class led by a graduate teaching assistant, and nearly every students’ hand went up.

“I don’t think you want hungry GTAs,” Florez warned, according to the Daily Kansan.  The Lawrence Journal-World adds that “the University of Alabama has already moved to limit graduate assistant hours to 20 per week to avoid paying for insurance under the health care law — a fact that has fueled concern at KU.”

The article goes on to cite several graduate student employees at KU who would be financially devastated if their hours were cut.  “Taking the 10-hour position away from me would put me literally below the poverty line,” Florez told the LWJ.

…and that would be:

  • The world owes you nothing – not even a “decent standard of living”.
  • Decisions have consequences and your decision to use your vote to put the guy into office that put this law into place that is now putting you into this place – near poverty – IS your consequence.
  • It will ALSO teach you to be part of the informed electorate – if you had been, you would have kicked Obama and Obamacare to the curb.

Hopefully, it will teach you to ask HARD questions BEFORE you vote for someone again and no longer just get caught up in the emotion of “being in the movement”.

You have brought yourselves upon yourselves.  Nice future you had there….

(H/T: The College Fix)

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