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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm enjoying reading this thread because there's a bunch of great comments and observations about the broken nature of higher education, even of the equal numbers of tone deaf screeches that offer nothing but "MAGA!"

I'd think most of us agree we have a problem with a higher education model that is too expensive for that it delivers. Yes, education has been a ticket for social mobility, but not for everyone. And too many people took out too large loans for degrees that didn't deliver. We're not talking about borrowing six figures for medical school or an elite law school where future success is nearly automatically guaranteed. We're talking about six figure loans for "my masters" from NYU down to the University of Phoenix to end up in low paying jobs. Why was that allowed?

The relationship between easy access to loans and soaring tuition costs cannot be denied. We just went through a period where the Biden WH was (unconstititonally) forgiving billions and billions in loans but without asking why those loans existed in the first place nor making any demands for reforming the cost model of higher education. It was an unsustainable model that couldn't go on much longer.

Look, let me illustrate something. I graduated from an expensive private college in 2002. The tuition + room and board that year was $32k. That same year my father celebrated the last college tuition by going out to buy his dream car, a BMW. He paid $32k for the BMW.

Today that same BMW sells for maybe 50k. The college? over 97k. Wow.  This is not sustainable. And this model was propped up by a glut of loans available everywhere and the cultural pressure to get more and more degrees to advance.

At least, for the first time in my life, someone is actually saying, stop! I don't know what the outcome will be but at least it's starting to do something about this totally broken and unsustainable approach to higher education in this country. [/quote]

As clumsy and ridiculous as I find these actions today (and I doubt very much the intent behind them is to help anyone at all in controlling college costs) I can’t say you’ve written anything that’s not true. College costs are ridiculous. [/quote]

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