Then they should not have gotten that “education” in the first place and gone out and got a job instead.
True!
and the government should not have provided guaranteed student loans to everybody regardless of major....but they did.
and universities should not have piled more and more and more costs onto students with big fat professors' salaries, dropping a lot of the teaching requirements for profs, hiring an army of administrators, etc....but they did.
and government should not have allowed corporations to successfully lobby for giveaway trade deals that outsourced American jobs overseas and should not have agreed to dramatically liberalize the granting of work visas to foreigners.....but they did.
so now we are where we are. We have millions of young people who were told to take on massive debt as the price of getting good jobs that would allow them to pay back those debts but the jobs did not materialize. They now do not have the money to pay back that debt. You can't squeeze blood out of a stone and even if you could squeeze the money or at least a lot of it out of some of them, that would cripple them financially for life which means they in turn would not buy homes and furnish them which comes back to bite us all in the azz that way.
What we've been doing blindly throwing money at students and universities is unsustainable.