Quote:Serious question. How is this free college thing going to actually work? 

 

Also, I would be curious to see what percentage of peoples student loans were spent on way above standard room and board, as well as other miscellaneous non-educational expenses. I am not implying that the cost of an education isn't ludicrously expensive, but I also doubt that the majority of people in debt lived within their means when they had the loan.

I appreciate that you can recognize that there is a problem. First thing, the lived within their means thing, I'm not sure what you mean... Are you implying that the majority of students abused their loans, and didn't use their loans for school? I worked as a student advisor in a previous life, and trust me, it's not like these students are the Reagan welfare queens driving Cadillacs that the gop likes to portray to divide our country.


As for specific policy, it sounds like the public universities in each state would be getting additional funding from the dept of education. There was another thread a few months back where we discussed the issues of the cost of higher education. The sad thing is that this should be a bi partisan issue. Republicans need to be willing to solve the problem as well, otherwise, it's just gonna gridlock like what happened under Obama.

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