I don’t like it, but this is going to prove to be popular and buy him many votes.
I have heard too many technical types complain about coming to work to service a $60,000 student loan while the guy sitting in the next cube is here on an H1B Visa and got his degree paid for by the government in his home country. We are slowly buying into the idea that it’s government’s job to pay for as much education as you can stomach.
Forcing cramdowns on mortgage principal and reregulating bank fees and credit card interest will buy him many more votes.
I may be wrong but didn’t Reagan start free jr college as gov or California? It’s what I was told years ago by a native of that state.
As for buying the 2012 election, it’s how he got there in 2008.