Of all the items of the week the only three that are usually non-political are Monday’s reviews, Saturday’s sex tips (although I’m sure Bubba will eventually contrast the difference between Republican women and Democrat women), and this feature…but today is the exception…that I’m pretty sure will become the rule.
Last week as I searched the internet for…uhhh…cooking tips, a nasty, sour article found its way in with my Naomi Campbell nude pictures…I mean, recipes for food and stuff. Anyway, it was an ad talking about what all the Republicans are going to cut from the budget, and one glaring thing few are talking about is Pell grants.
In between trying to cut funding for NPR/PBS (non-corporate voices which are usually Democrat as most non-rich issues are), the nuclear war over ending unions (the Democrats last big fundraisers, because, again, they help the non-rich), and Planned Parenthood (that’s okay, Democrats will just have more kids and take over mwawahahahaha), you might have missed that the new Republican budget also cuts other things. Things like funds to the Environmental Protection Agency (making it easier for big corporations to dump toxic sewage into our drinking water), government aid (making us poorer), Medicaid (making us sicker), public schools (making us dumber) and Pell grants (making us stay poorer, sicker, dumber).
Pell grants are government loans to poor students who want to go to college. For low income families able to receive them it makes the difference between going to college and not going. If you are able to pay for college any other way, you are not eligible for a Pell grant. Pell grants got their name from the senator who started them, Claiborne Pell, who is, of course, a Democrat. The entire idea was to crack the door open for students whose grades were good enough but would never have gotten to go to college without financial aid.
Now Republicans think this program—along with almost any that helps poor people like Medicare, Social Security, and Heating subsidies for low income families—is expendable. Mostly because none of their kids will ever have to worry about going to college or the front door not only be cracked, but wide open. This new house budget backed by the Republicans doesn’t have a whole lot of good news for young people. In fact, almost any program you could think of (even one to aid babies with low fetal birthrate) for young people or children is going to face a squeeze. There’s no real good news in it at all if you’re under 35…or not one of the 400 richest Americans in the country.
I never received any Pell grants or financial aid to go to school, but have known several good friends who have and are now able to get jobs with their degrees they never would have before. It makes me sick to think these programs might be reduced. If you know anyone who has benefited from them, you should be sick too.
This is truly sad, I went to school on Pell grants and most of my buddies did too
Pell Grants, what is next? Let’s now give kids a fucking chance to succeed. What is happening to this country?
Since they are going so far right, they want us to beat them down with the bible. You know religious zealots are some of the dumbest people walking on this earth.
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