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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody in their right mind thinks college cost increases over the past 25 years are not exorbitant.

and congress wants to put a cap on nurses pay, come on let's put some regulations around college costs.[/quote]

I don’t disagree with you, at all. But [b]I still don’t believe there’s any such thing as a donut hole family. [/b][/quote]

You are right.  There is no such thing as a donut hole family.  There are only families who refuse to liquidate their retirement funds, forgo their annual week at the beach, sell or remortgage their family homes, work until they are 80.  These people are selfish and stingy when they choose not to pay $320K per child and rising for their kids' undergraduate degrees, because if they only tried a little harder, they could pull it off.  Cheapskates.[/quote]

Are you so blind to reality that you don't realize there are options between $320k/kid and "your kids can't go to college"?  If you can't try a little harder to save, then try a little harder to master a cost/benefit analysis.  [b]If your vacation is an annual week at the beach, then expensive private schools are not for you![/b]  Send Larlo to Whatever State Tech and stop feeling sorry for yourself.[/quote]

Isn't this the problem? Expensive schools are for the wealthy....??? wtf?? Can you not see a problem with what you typed?[/quote]

No, it's not a problem.  Feeling entitled to go the most expensive school around is the problem.  Expensive shit is for wealthy people.  Duh.  Do you also demand your own private plane?

I went to a state school.  Because I was not wealthy.  I was accepted to a few very expensive private colleges that I applied to "just to see."  And when I realized I couldn't go there because I couldn't afford it, I moved on.  I invite you to try it.[/quote]

My family household income when I went to college was less than the tuition for that year....I completely get going where you can afford, trust me. DC is happily ensconced at a state school that is so frowned upon here (JMU) and I am so proud of how hard he had to work to get there. We are able to full pay out of pocket due to life circumstances...including that he's an only. Dh and I both went to no-name small school that would be laughed at here, and are both very successful. So I have "tried it".

That said, I am responding to the attitude portrayed here of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality and the complete lack of awareness of the realities of trying to go to college and paying for it and being in so much debt, and that is with doing all the "don't buy more expensive groceries" bullcrap mentioned here. Save when they are born? Do you know how much childcare is at birth? $1000 per child per month. How does a normal household manage that and saving for each child?

I get that I'm wasting my breath now. Moving on. There will be no understanding. [/quote]

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