Today I was walking through Vari Hall (at York University) and a group of students were making tombstone shaped signs protesting tuition fee hikes. While i appreciated the Halloween theme (because Halloween is my favourite holiday), i thought that if these students are really concerned with not being able to pay their tuition or gaining too much debt through student loans, then why aren't they out working right now instead of painting signs?
Don't get me wrong, i'm in the boat; i wear the button and sing the song, tuition fees are getting a little too ridiculous. But it seems to me that students are more concerned with social lives, new technologies, fashion, cars, and protesting then busting some ass working a shit job to pay for their education. OSAP, student loans, and a free ride from mommy and daddy, are students crucial hand-outs allowing them to indulge in our consumerist society and their social lives.
STOP COMPLAINING AND START ACTING!!!!!!!!!! IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
I worked 60 hour weeks all summer long at a shitty fast food joint to pay for my tuition this year (and still working throughout the school year to pay rent), while John or Jane spent their summer vacationing and bumming around and that's why they have debt, that's why they believe complaining it the answer to their problems; they're lazy.
To all of you students who are busting their ass working and going to school i salute you! But for those of you complainers suck it up and "why don't you get a job"?
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I'm just curious: why do you assume that those who are protesting don't also have a job? Are action and activism mutually exclusive?
(PS I have a job /and/ complain-- is that bad?)
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