Paul Ryan Tells Student He Should Work Three Jobs To Pay For College, Not Use Pell Grants

[Donnachaidh]

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2011/10/20/349627/paul-ryan-three-jobs-pell-grants/

ThinkProgress filed this report from a town hall in Muskego, Wisconsin.

The House Republican majority, since it came into power, has repeatedly set its sights on Pell Grants, the federal grants that help low- and middle-income students pay a portion of their higher education tuition. Republicans have not only proposed lowering the maximum Pell amount from $5,500 (which is the level to which the Obama administration raised it) but also limiting eligibility, knocking one million students from the Pell program entirely.

During a town hall today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) was asked by Matthew Lowe, a student, why the GOP wants to cut Pell Grants. Ryan responded by saying that the program is “unsustainable,” before telling Lowe that he should be working three jobs and taking out student loans to pay for college, instead of using Pell Grants:

LOWE: I come from a very middle-class family and under President Obama, I get $5,500 per year to pay for school, which doesn’t come close to covering all of the funding, but it helps ease the burden. Under your plan, you cut it by 15 percent. I was just curious why you would cut a grant that goes directly to the middle- and lower-class people that need it the most.

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I seriously think we should deamnd this fuckwit repay the SOCIAL SECURITY he received which he used to pay for HIS college education. :grr:

[OhioChick]

1. What a POS n/t

[dkf]

2. Why are pell grants in particular unsustainable? Or is Ryan talking about all spending?

[TheKentuckian]

5. Ryan is talking his usual nonsense and he should always be ignored or the subject of derision.

Why would anyone take that little twisted imp seriously?

[PETRUS]

6. He's just a big liar. nt

[LiberalFighter]

16. It is unsustainable because the rich won't get the full tax cuts

he wants to give them?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Ryan should be made to pay for the student's tuition

[MFrohike]

3. Check the comments

One of the comments has a link to US News, which points out that he paid for his bachelor's degree with the Social Security Survivor's benefits he received after his father's death.

http://www.usnews.com/news/campaign-2008/articles/2008/07/23/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-paul-ryan

[and-justice-for-all]

4. He is pathetic...nt

[alp227]

7. Try to find time to work while majoring in science or engineering.

Geeeeez. Paul Ryan always finds a way to make himself look more psychopathic every week. Maybe he really is a vampire. Hell I'm going to college and can't even find a job. So what would Ryan want me to do, be homeless? This guy sure has a fetish for human suffering, whether towards seniors on privatized voucher health care or college students in dire poverty.

[brentspeak]

8. Funny how "deficit hawk" Ryan didn't have a problem voting for Bush's Medicare-D scam

Which was designed to deliberately bust Medicare's budget while simultaneously gifting the pharma companies with countless billions in taxpayer money.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. What a hypocrite.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/19/968549/-Entitlement-hating-Paul-Ryan-collected-Social-Security-benefits-until-he-was-18

[applegrove]

10. As if someone can get 1 job in this economic climate. What an ass!

[Tsiyu]

11. Paul Ryan is a walking disease

Every day I ask the Goddess why these diseased minds are still allowed to spew their tripe and blather.

Why can't the diseases eating their brains decimate the rest of their bodies? Mean as hell, I know, but I want the Ryans and Lugars and Norquists and Gingriches and all their ilk to just fucking Go. Away. Forever.

Not in keeping with my sigline but fucking enough is enough.

They do nothing for mankind but torment it, just as Ryan did nothing for this kid except torment him.

[provis99]

12. well, he is a social darwinist follower of Ayn Rand.

In other words, he's just plain evil; so expect him to think that way, too.

[Angry Dragon]

13. Ask ryan about his rich grandparents that helped his family out

not everyone has rich relatives
not everyone got to go to college at the same time he did when it was more affordable

not everyone is an ass like ryan

[sakabatou]

14. Motherfucker!

What a POS!

[Kalidurga]

15. I'm gonna get a Pell Grant ...

in yer face Ryan...

[Blue Owl]

17. Paul Ryan's got a YUMMY SHIT SANDWICH just for you!

Wow THANKS PAUL RYAN for blessing us with your shit sandwich.

:sarcasm:

[arbusto_baboso]

18. And pray tell, Mr. Ryan, where will this student FIND three jobs...

when so many Americans are hard pressed to find even one???

God DAMN I really fucking hate Republicans.

[N7Shepard]

21. That will line up schedule wise with his other two jobs and classes.

I worked 3 jobs in college, but I "lucked out" doing it by getting flexible schedules. I wouldn't expect to be able to repeat that.

[arbusto_baboso]

22. Another good point.

[Mz Pip]

19. Good luck in finding 3 jobs

Most unemployed people would be happy to be able to find just one.

[hifiguy]

20. That creature is an

ambulatory turd in a mansuit that needs to be flushed into the sewer.