I have a secret hope. I hope that on Paul Ryan's Judgment Day, I get to watch from a teeny crack in the door while stifling squeals of glee at his fate. This is a man who loves that authoritarian "We Can't Afford It" line while sucking up everything he can from the public coffers. Don't forget, Paul Ryan is the guy who saved his survivor's Social Security benefits to go to college. Ah, but what's good for the goose isn't so great for the gander, it seems.
Think Progress has the transcript:
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.
RYAN: 'Cause Pell Grants have become unsustainable. It's all borrowed money…Look, I worked three jobs to pay off my student loans after college. I didn't get grants, I got loans, and we need to have a system of viable student loans to be able to do this.
The second concern I have is, in the health care bill — people don't know this — for budgetary gimmickry reasons, the administration and Congress at the time, took over the student loan industry. So they had the federal government, the Department of Education, basically confiscate the private student loan industry.
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