Granholm signs budget, wipes out Promise

I am incredulous. The governor chose a new police station knowing that by doing this she would be taking away much needed funds for the kids to go to school It is not just the promise scholarship its need based grants that have been “chopped up.” This cut is worse than the promise because these need grants along with loans is the ONLY way low income kids can go to school. I guess this is one way of starting the elimination of the middle class. She not only lied and pretended ‘shock” at this she also was involved in quite a shady price hike concerning this new police station which I have read and heard was not needed but done to pay back a favor.

Granholm traded off kids’ financial aid for a new police station. I believe she owed a couple of people pretty big favors. The elimination of the promise scholarship is totally unacceptable but please be aware ALL NEED financial aid has been chopped. I do not see how low income students can attend school without some financial aid to put with loans.

Just raise taxes. God forbid everybody chip in a small amount so everyone else benefits.

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Low income students get Pell Grants and SEOG’s. Back in the day, MSU would throw them a little love, with decent sized grants and non-cafe based student employement. (Once upon a time at MSU, every computer lab had someone working in it to help you. It’s true.)

At any rate, Uncle Sam will still help you out if you’re low income. Maybe not enough to fully cover MSU anymore, because MSU has priced itself out of the market for that kind of student to easily attend here. But you’ll be able to go somewhere.

“MSU will receive $29.1 million for university operations — a $1.2 million decrease from last year’s $29.3 million.”

Was this a typo? How is this not a .2 million decrease?

God forbid the low income students have to take out loans like the rest of us (middle class).

Shes a Whore…

Gov is to powerful…

The Illuminati and there goals of no middle class are happening all around America.

The Swine flu is man made, I knew about this 2 years ago and saw the plans myself.

Wake the fuk people! This is real.. or just go watch your tv and numb yourself to the world. As 99% people do

I really dont see a need for so many police. Do we really need so many? I see them all the time and they generally look pretty bored. I think Granholm got a crap budget thrown in front of her a day before something had to be done. I honestly think shes handling her job as best as she knows how.

Police station??? Huh???

Do you mean the state police headquarters? That was a Republican scam and its been around a lot longer than this budget cycle.

Well, at least these comments are proving the need for education.

When I was in high school I thought the Promise Scholarship was too good to be true. I guess I was correct. Also my parents or I would just be paying for this scholarship through taxes. It’s really a no win situation for everyone.

Lisa Simpson, how about you and the 43,000 other Michigan State students just give me $1 each. You will all be contributing to a better society.

why does it take so many people in Michigan so long to figure out that this idiot Candian has done nothing but nuke our state. Carl Debbie Jenny Kwaime all deserve to be voted out but it takes terms to get rid of Jenny a run in with the law to dump kwaime and Carl and Debbie are about to really stick it to us. why would you give these idiots more stuff to screw up. people of michgian wake up. Please look out the window.
fools elect fools

incredulas you are an idiot. Joel Ferguson (huge lib demtard)is the benifactor of the dirty Jenny police station deal. she traded the michigan promise becasue she owed him. we really dont need a new police station when we have a declining population. however we will need more cops soon after the candian idiot is done closing all the prisions. how you can say Republican deal is hillarious. look out the window and stop wasting my time with your low brain activity and comments
good economy means good jobs and people can pay thier own college idiot
stop with the handouts and finger pointing. Libtards always do that and they have 3 more fingers pointing back at them

I am writing in response to the person who said the police station issue has been around a long time. This “issue” involved both a democrat and republican, I wish I had the website I could probably find it but what is the use I read it, found it to be reliable, and it sickened me. This occured around October she also gave much more money to the “contractors” than it was worth. The website is reuters something. And please don’t call me an idiot because I can not remember the actual website. If Granholm would honor the promise just for this semester and then no more I would be satisfied. Instead, the kids have to shell out 1000.00 to give to the school as a lot of schools deferred this payment, And it is due now. Some schools have forgiven it for this semester and they impress me but this is not the rule rather than the exception. I would have trouble getting 1000.00 in a couple of days if I was loaned and finaid maxed out. We had kids in our High School that should not have been there, they repeatedly raised he__. and the administration just looked the other way, this holds the ambitious kids back. My daughter had at least one teacher apologize to her for not only the waste of time but the discomfort. Personally, I would get tired of a constant battle between teacher and teenager to pull his pants up. I’d throw them out after about 3 times of this but our schools let it go. The ambitious kids have been on the short end of the stick for a long time, taking away the aid, not even paid in some cases yet, is another slap. Maybe the groups that think “education ain’t cool” are right?

I am a current college freshman who has no idea how i am going to get this thousand dollars. i agree that she should have still given it for at least the first semester because many college student dont have a $1000 in there bank account. i have to pay for my college completely on my own because my parents refuse to help because they do not see it as there responsibility. So right now i might not be able to register for next semester because i do not have this money to give them. i was already promised it and it had already been taken off my due balance and i have already maxed out all my aid and loans. so i have no clue what to do. i think it was wrong of her to take it away from people who were already promised it.

Samantha Nortrhup, have your parents at least fill out the FASA form. By filling this form out you can hopefully get zero percent loans until you graduate.

After we graduate, most of us will leave the state anyways. There’s not place for us here, things like this damn the future of Michigan and further speed it’s fall. Ah well, time to suck it up and take the hit, but the main thing is to not forget past transgressions by those who are elected to represent the needs of the people.

Samantha you should write a short note to granholm saying what you just said. I can not believe she is so heartless. The financial aid department might help you at your school, if you get in there real fast. Good Luck.

I like the what Matt Marsden, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester had to say about how the republican controlled senate would be unwilling to reopen the Michigan Promise or any other program that was cut. It just goes to show how stubborn the elected officials in this state really are.