We all knew that someone would eventually have to pay for the war and tax cuts. Today the administration made it harder to qualify for Pell Grants and lowered the amounts that will be available. More Below the fold.
A change in eligibility for Pell Grants to be announced Thursday by the Department of Education would cut some 90,000 students from the rolls of recipients and affect more than 1 million others, an education advocate says.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/12/23/pell.grants/index.html
In addition to those who will lose their grants completely, "we estimate about 1.3 million students will see reductions in their grants from $100 to $300 per year," said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, a trade association representing 2,000 public and private colleges and universities.
This is just one more example of an assault on the middle class. Education has and will always be the best way to maintain a democratic society. It is in the Republicans best interests to keep the population uneducated because it is this uneducated population that votes for the Republicans against their own best interests. What has America become that we would cut education funding while providing tax relief to the richest among us? The time has come to fight back not just with words here on Dailykos but with strong grassroots action. It is time that normal middle class Americans who are the heart and soul of this great country take it back from the corporate interests before we are left with a society that we will no longer recognize.