[Jim Noble]

I worked and paid my way through college in the early ‘70s.,P>Well, I worked in the summers and paid for my medical school with the money.

But my medical school was $1600/year and it's now $100 000/year, so a summer job is just not going to get it done.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The reason college costs rose at an order of magnitude greater than rate of inflation is precisely because the government took over student loans and handed them out like candy.

The universities could charge anything they wanted because the dumb 18-year olds they were exploiting would borrow whatever it took and hand it over to them.

I am all for student loan forgiveness if it comes out of the endowments of the universities who exploited them.