In typical Joe Biden fashion, the Vice President did what he does best creating straw arguments to discuss the Republican plan on Pell Grants.
Biden falsely told athletes gathered at Newport High School in Newport, N.H. that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to do away with Pell Grants. The reality is that the GOP ticket wants to return Pell Grant funding to pre-stimulus levels when they were targeted at the truly needy.
“There’s a big debate now,” Biden said. “One team wants to get rid of those.”
The Republicans have said nothing about changing or reducing the maximum $5,500 award available to eligible students.
Under Obama Pell grant funding doubled from $16.5 billion in 2008 to $32.3 billion in 2010.
“The Obama Administration and some Members of Congress argue that another $5.7 billion is needed in order to avoid a funding shortfall and a reduction in the maximum grant award of 15 percent,” Heritage Foundation scholar Lindsey M. Burke wrote about the Obama plan on Pell Grants. “But continuing to increase federal subsidies for higher education through the Pell grant program would not solve the college cost problem and could exacerbate inefficiencies and tuition hikes at universities.”
Once again Biden shows he will do anything or say anything even if the facts do not fit with the rhetoric.
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“The reality is that the GOP ticket wants to return Pell Grant funding to pre-stimulus levels when they were targeted at the truly needy.”
That would be damning to millions of students. Why would one need to be ‘truly needy’, when the grant helps regular people who very much investing heavily in themselves and as a result, the future of the country.
Mr Ryan also was on board to jacking up the interest rates on student loans, his surrogate run around and say ‘not everyone needs an education anyway (whatever that is supposed to mean)”.
No, Mr Ryan and Mr Romney are the kind who feel the average Joe is draining the funds they could be put into things like the military. They are not fiscal conservatives, they want to take money saved by taking from your kids education, and divert it for other self serving agendas, not save it.