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American dream and walked through the door of opportunity and then shut it behind them for the next generation. paul ryan new hampshire his budget that romney endorsed proposed cutting pell grants by 40%. barack obama doubled pell grant investment. we are talking about the next generation of young people being able to afford college. barack obama has made investments, $10,000 tax credit for educational purposes. about making sure that we have the seam chances our parents and grandparents and mitt romney has abandoned that with his poll ocies and paul ryan, both of them. >> there is a perceptio...

Policies that he's pushing to put in place -- >> it's a little galling. >> does nothing to address that. you are talking about cutting pell grants, as congress has done multiple times. every time you are talking about things like not providing opportunities and talking about, you know, increasing tax cuts to people who will not at all be affected by this and expecting some type of trickle down. there's a problem with the logic in terms of how that's fundamentally going to occur. >> but he is not in the logic game. >> michael steele, we're talking in broad strokes here. i mean, i don't think th...

Subsidize those schools! >> yeah, the real issue, and by the way, everybody day translation on this stuff. but if you look at our website, the real issue is the cost of education in the first place. so, meanwhile, in this lunacy, we're talking about cutting pell grants, which will make college more affordable for low-income students. we've basically said, you can only qualify for pell grants now in our budget cuts for 12 semesters, as opposed to 18. you're only eligible if you make $23,000 a year as a household income as opposed to $30,000. so we've made it tougher to get that kind of aid. and...

Right wingers out there who won election. can you imagine what governor walker would do with a block grant? i mean, he isn't going to put it where it's supposed to be. let's go after the kids now. cutting pell grants making it harder for poor students to go to college. think about that. what kind of political voice do they have? nada. zero. nothing. so they'll go after the kids. got any taxes for -- gutting taxes for the rich from 35% to 25%. oh, yeah. this will create alt jobs in the world. you saw the graph earlier tonight. no it does not. increasing the pentagon budget by $5 billion just fo...

Grant? i mean, he isn't going to put it where it's supposed to be. let's go after the kids now. cutting pell grants making it harder for poor students to go to college. think about that. what kind of political voice do they have? nada. zero. nothing. so they'll go after the kids. got any taxes for -- gutting taxes for the rich from 35% to 25%. oh, yeah. this will create all the jobs in the world. you saw the graph earlier tonight. no it does not. increasing the pentagon budget by $5 billion just for next year alone. war, baby, war. increase the military spending. you know, the truth of the mat...