Obama Cuts Pell Grants – rerun
Bush Obama cuts Pell Grants.
While Middle Class Americans have had stagnate wages hovering around an average of 33,000 a year since 2000, the cost of higher education has more than doubled in the same time frame.
“…The House passed a proposal Feb. 19 that, among cuts in other areas, would reduce Pell Grants by $5.7 billion for this fall. That would cut the average grant by $785, and would bring down the maximum grant by $845 dollars to $4,705.”
Interesting choices we make. It reminds me of trying to pay for a 68 corvette with your kids’ lunch money. These choices cause extreme hardship on those needing the grants to continue school, many of which will drop out and yet impact the budget very little.
Ya know we did the same thing in 2004.
http://www.rense.com/general61/cut.htm
How well did that work out? Did it balance the Budget?
http://www.school-scholarship.org/2011/01/headzup-pell-grants-vs-tax-cuts/
Take some time and listen to Austan Goolsbee on the Daily Show.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-24-2011/austan-goolsbee”>
Thank you
And yet at the same time the military budget went up again. 😈
Whatever happened to someone working their way through school? Anyway… Who is in charge of Higher Education in this Country That would be the Liberals. It is Liberals that have given six digit salaries to Professors…and somebody has to pay for that. In Arizona, a Professor earns between $120,000 a year and $160,000…and yet a Police or Fireman only makes at most $61,000. The Police & Fire Departments are saving lives…and what are the over paid Liberal Professors doing? Well…they are not risking their lives quite like the people I’ve mentioned.
If somebody wants to go to College…I encourage that. They need to get jobs and work their way through school…
I say…give Pell Grants to people that are working their way through college. It all goes back to the same thing…IF YOU WORK, YOU EAT…IF YOU DO NOT WORK, YOU DO NOT EAT!
Hey…The American people voted for “Change”…how’s that working out? hmmm………. cutting Pell Grants? Must be an election coming up…huh. President Obama must move to the Center….lol…Doh!
Of course we must make education harder for everyone. That way we can more easily control the ignorant masses.
Austan Goolsbee, top economic advisor to Obama, says we are going to Grow our way out of “this”.
And we are going to do this by making it more difficult for working people to get degrees.
We are going to Grow our way out of this by cutting Pell grants. (yep cutting Pell grants is going to increase revenues)
This one hurts. I have a son(a genius…honestly) who is starting the college seek, search and find process. There is no way, I mean no way under the sun I can afford to send him to college. He will be seeking grants and scholarships, he will also be working while attending college. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but let’s face it college ain’t high school and I would rather he focus on study, rather than how he is going to pay for studying. The cost of testing, applications and just visiting colleges is enough to make one cringe. OK maybe, I am worrying for nothing. He will have enough scholarships to pay his way, but there are so many kids who won’t have the backing he does. It just ain’t right.