They are handing out student loans hand over fist. I've got them out the wazoo.
They are handing out student loans hand over fist. I've got them out the wazoo.
That's probably why he was stumped. He didn't want to call her a liar. I think her facts are a bit incorrect. They may have cut something, but not student loans.
In his final debate with U.S. Sen. John Kerry...He looked toward the camera and assured viewers he would "continue to expand Pell Grants to make sure that people have an opportunity to start their career with a college diploma."
Little more than a month after his re-election, expand is about to become contract.
The spending bill the White House helped broker through Congress last month takes double aim at Pell Grants. First, the maximum grant will remain at $4,050 a year, unchanged for the third consecutive year at a time when tuitions are rising by more than 10 percent. (In his 2000 campaign for president, Bush pledged a first-year Pell Grant of $5,100.) Second, and more telling, the bill allows the U.S. Department of Education to proceed with a new eligibility formula that will remove an estimated 90,000 qualified students. The formula was first proposed by the DOE in 2003 but quietly dropped during the election year as Congress banned its implementation.
If the current leadership has its way, Congress will pass more than $100 billion in tax cuts early this year, the vast bulk of which will go to the very wealthy. At the same time, it will cast the final vote to make the largest cut in student college loan programs in history -- some $12.7 billion over five years.
The student loan cuts just passed by Congress, according to experts cited by the Wall Street Journal, will raise the average cost over 10 years by $2,000 to students and $3,000 to parents.
The bit they cut out:-
GW..."You know, I should have brought along the fella that arranges all these loans, he'd be able to answer your question."
Student...."You mean the loan arranger?"
GW....."Nope, you're thinkin' of the guy that used to ride that big white horse, an' he's busy fightin' crime with Tonto."
Lord Ellpus wrote:The bit they cut out:-
GW..."You know, I should have brought along the fella that arranges all these loans, he'd be able to answer your question."
Student...."You mean the loan arranger?"
GW....."Nope, you're thinkin' of the guy that used to ride that big white horse, an' he's busy fightin' crime with Tonto."
Ok, I just woke up after a long night and that joke hit me like a freight train after about three seconds of me looking at it, going "whaaaat?"
Well done
People-- I'm in school. I work in the Registrar's Office next to--and in conjunction with--Financial Aid.
No one who meets the qualification is denied financial aid.
Say what you like, but I see proof that financial aid is being handed out liberally every day.
