Congressman Joe Heck Versus the Pell Grant
Today the Young Democrats at the College of Southern Nevada sent Congressman Joe Heck a letter condemning his July 19, 2011 vote to make the largest cut to the Pell Grant in U.S. history. The letter also points out that the major cuts proposed to the federal budget will take money out of the economy, reduce demand, and likely lead to an increase in unemployment. The letter ends with a plead to think about ordinary Nevadans and vote to extend the debt limit.
“The fact that Congressman Heck could be targeting such large cuts on people of low income who may be out of work and going back to school to retrain, is just astonishing” said Justin McAffee, president of the CSN Young Democrats. “These are members of his own constituency who attend UNLV, CSN and NSC, not to mention several private schools around town. Doesn’t he realize that college graduates have a much lower unemployment percentage? Congressman Heck is taking us in the complete wrong direction.”
The Ryan Plan and to a greater extent the “Cut Cap and Balance” plan, both of which Congressman Heck voted for, have the following effects on the Pell Grant and college students:
- The maximum grant would be cut by $845 (15.2 percent);
- 1.7 million currently eligible students would be rendered ineligible for grants.
- The largest reduction in Pell Grant history
- Will reduce the number of low income students receiving Bachelor’s degrees each year by about 61,000.
Perhaps Congressman Joe Heck should consider how his votes might affect normal human beings. You know, people who vote! Perhaps we should take education more seriously in this country. I don’t understand it, but Republicans seem to be rejecting the idea that education helps people. I suppose they are rejecting the idea that anything helps people.
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It is not a nation’s responsibility to “give” any person an education, BUT it is a nation’s responsibility to insure its economic viability by providing educational services to enhance growth and productivity.
One of the signal features of an advanced economy is the cooperation between a country’s institutions of higher education and its industrial base.
Without cooperative development at all levels, from engineering to design, between education and industry, there is minimal advancement and even less potential growth.
The entire point is that we cannot allow the disintegration of educational and industrial coordination without surrendering our economy to those who see the importance of this vital connection.
Amen!
It’s truly amazing how people get a gift one time, then expect it to be bestowed upon them forever. It’s NOT this country’s responsibility to send kids to college. It is their responsibility to give them a K-12 education, as it is in the constitution. It’s like the Millenium scholarship…it was started with the thought that it would be funded by the taxes on ciggarettes, but falls short. So it should end…it was a gift that lasted a few good years. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill for a gift someone else gave. Young democrats have become the generation of gimme,gimme,gimme, you owe me. I find them to be mean spirited, dishonest and selfish, despited professing to want to ‘save the world’, albeit it be with everyone else’s money. I say grow some balls, stop whining about what you don’t have all the time and assume some personal responsibility to get the job done. Stop waiting for everyone else to do it for you. And Chandler…has anyone ever told you, you sound really stupid and Hitler-like, man. Are you like, 10 years old or what?
I stumbled on this website googling Joe Heck. I have been a registered Democrat, Republican and/or independent voter in six states. Education is important and the cost has increased over the three decades since I earned a degree. There is no easy solution to education funding. I believe it should be a combination of public, private and personal resources. A constructive approach might be encouraging elected representatives to create solutions to empower the above three entities to fund higher educational opportunities. We are a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” Let’s join in constructive participation.
Ever since the mandatory draft was ended by Nixon, the only thing the Republicans have been interested in is their own cash. They have opted out of America and have been sent to Washington as a bunch of government haters whose goal is deconstructing the social contract. They must be stopped.