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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The donut hole is a myth that poor savers tell themselves.   Decisions have consequences. Buying a larger house or nicer car - spending more for vacations and fancy summer camps are all decisions.

[b]College costs are not unexpected.  You have nearly two decades to save. [/b]

Plus, you don’t have to save for the most expensive college.  All of you who consider yourselves middle class- that means kids stay at home and go to college or they go to an instate college. That is what middle class parents have done for generations. Paying the full amount for high end tuitions for private schools are for rich families not yours.

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But that's the problem, college expenses have become [b]exploitative[/b] for most family budgets. As PP suggests, your entire adult life you're now supposed to be either saving for college or paying off your loans. It's basically become a third layer of taxation in addition to state and federal.[/quote]

College costs are INDEFENSIBLE here in the US. No other country in the world has such expensive university education, and yet many have excellent institutions. It IS exploitative.

It's like the cost of healthcare in this country. It does not need to be that high! Other wealthy nations do it for much less.

But here capitalism rules, the federal government has very little regulatory control compared to other countries... and we are left with this. Very little upward mobility in an erstwhile upwardly mobile country.

So you're all right where universities want you, suckers: bickering amongst yourselves, and forgetting that you are all being exploited BY THEM.

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Only in the US would people compare a university education with a luxury car.[/quote]

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