I knew of so many students who took their Pell Grants and paid for furniture, cars or other luxuries once they got that money while I worked two jobs to pay for my college and drove an old car with hand me down furniture.
Stop the fricking gravy train. I have absolutely no sympathy.
“knew of so many students who took their Pell Grants and paid for furniture, cars or other luxuries once they got that money”
Hell, I know people doing that NOW....
It’s like they KNOW they’ll never have to repay it, and it’s just ‘Fun Money’ from Uncle Sugar
I’m sympathetic. I truly am, but here’s the truth: demand for government handouts will always, always outstrip the supply of taxpayer money. Free contraceptives, food stamps, Pell grants, free cell phones, etc. The list is endless. If it’s not permissible to cut any program that hurts someone somewhere, no program will ever be cut.
Once government starts down this path of trying to help people by redistributing wealth, there is no end to it. That doesn’t mean I don’t think people should be helped. All wealth redistributionist programs are inherently immoral in that they take from one citizen to give to another. Private charity is the only moral alternative, and it’s much more efficient, too.