Pell Grants helped me get a degree that increased my income, made my life better, and made me a better, taxpaying American.
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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Yeah but now you have smarts and that cant happen because you might question things.
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Same, how this helps anyone is beyond me.
It helps the rich. More money and stupider labor.
The rich cant get richer if they dont have anybody educated enough to design and run their production lines.
That’s what H1B visas are for! Then they get dumb labor, and cheap skilled slaves beholden to them to keep their visa and thus life intact!
(Wish I were joking, but this is all facts)
Bingo! Now come this way so you can enjoy your gulag vacation.
This is why Musk loves H1Bs so much.
The next farsighted rich person I meet would be the first one.
Yup, helped me go to trade school and get a career. Now I work for myself.
Nobody wants this to stop
Same
Pell grants are definitely a problem: they need to be much bigger. They need to grow to regain their initial “purchasing power” over an education
Keeping the plebs ignorant. That tracks. Running Project 2025 play by play.
Slash it by what? My kids got the same $ amount I did, back when I went to college when they were little. For me, it covered tuition and some of the books, for them about 1/10th of the tuition. It's already slashed.
Because of the Pell grant I was able to get a degree and a great paying job. I've paid far more in taxes than what I received in Pell grants, which probably would not be true if I didn't have it to help me pay for my degree. It literally pays for itself.
May limit? May?! What else could it do???