Pell Grant Welfare

Pass the debt ceiling without conditions « The Confluence: "...Congress needs to go back to the blackboard and craft a new stimulus package. Republicans and Tea Party lunatics need to get off of the social safety net slash viagra and get in touch with their human side, assuming they have one. I’ve read that Tea Party activists have complained that the $17 billion in Pell Grants in the budget bills were “welfare”. Let me just say that after all of the years that I sent enough money to Washington in taxes to support a family of four, I do not want to hear from the jerks who think that a Pell grant is “welfare”. We’re unemployed professionals. If you don’t want us sucking off the government, you’d better get the economy back on its feet..."