{"id":26045,"date":"2011-08-01T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26045"},"modified":"2011-08-01T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T23:23:00","slug":"priorities-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26045","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of you know that last year Congress passed and Obama signed an IAVA-crafted \u00a0bill that in effect cut GI Bill benefits for most active duty veterans<\/a>. The bill was one of the few times that the Democrats applied PAYGO rules during the first two years of the Obama administration and some Dems even praised the fact it might save a couple million of dollars.<\/p>\n

Now fast forward to today. Part of the new debt deal is an increase<\/em> in funding for Pell Grants<\/a> for civilians who are looking to go college or a vocational school. Wait, I thought this whole debt deal was about cutting spending? <\/em>Well, gee I guess Pell Grants must be incredibly fucking awesome if they are dumping more money into the program. Wrong. Lets look at some of the things that are fucked up about Pell Grants:<\/p>\n

1. There is evidence the Pell Grants and other forms of federal aid to higher education may actually be contributing to the rising cost of higher education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Recipients\u00a0of Pell Grants have on average lower graduation rates than non-recipients<\/a>\u00a0(nearly half of all Pell Grant recipients do not receive a degree in six years).<\/p>\n

3. Pell Grants help prop-up worthless for-profit schools that would otherwise be devoured by the market.<\/p>\n

4. Pell Grants put more money in the pockets of corrupt college presidents that have chosen to invest heavily in the administrative aspects of their universities as opposed to the educational aspects.<\/a><\/p>\n

5. There is no incentive for a Pell Grant recipient to succeed considering it is a grant and not a loan. There is no requirement to pay back the money with a Pell Grant.<\/p>\n

So, to sum it up, President Obama without hesitation signed into law a bill that weakened the most successful college aid program in the history of the United States but aggressively fought for a massive increase in funding for arguably the worst college aid program in the history of United States.<\/p>\n

Priorities people. Priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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