What are your thoughts on Pell grants? Do you think people deserve them?

If a student qualified for a Pell Grant, why not award that grant? Some students would not be able to fund their college otherwise. Do you have something against Pell Grants?

I'm just wondering if anyone else has a problem with Pell grants. If they think people should just get money from the government. Do people want their tax dollars going to this?

I would rather my tax dollars go towards a Pell Grant for someone's education than have my tax dollars fund space exploration for establishing a possible colony on the Moon. I would rather my tax dollars fund a Pell Grant for someone who wants to make something out of their lives and get ahead and be sustainable than someone who shows no ambition and is content to let the government take care of them.

I got a grant for being a woman over 35 returning to college. (It was only $3000) I will be able to earn more money and therefore pay more in taxes now that I have completed my degree. I also have a great deal of student loans to pay back.

I agree with shy, better we pay to educate people and allow them to take care of themselves rather than just pay them to sit and watch games shows all day.

President Bush proposed an increase of the pay out of the Pell Grant Program from it's frozen $4600 to an increase to $5400 by 2012 .To pay for it he would eliminate Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program(SEOG) . Congress recently passed the bill (H.R. 2669) and the MSM spun it to imply that it was passed by a veto-proof majority so the President although reluctant ,signed it.

I'm not opposed to applicants who are qualified to go to college being helped financially.I'd rather an uncomplicated direct hand out than these convoluted loan guarantee schemes that Congress concocts which I'm sure have huge adminstative overhead ,and often students just default .

But what I suspect happens in these cases is that colleges will now compete for these students with guaranteed Federal money and find a way qualify them and to graduate them. Will the over-all quality of college education suffer ? Possibly