[dennisw]

That’s great that Bill didn’t need student loans, but government backed loans for students isn’t a program I’m necessarily against.

1. No illegal aliens back then so students were able to get those summer painting jobs which paid pretty well from what I saw
2. college tuition was much lower compared to average American earning power
3. state colleges charged next to nothing
4. all back in the sixties-seventies

[gusty]

In regards to point 2, have you noticed that the Left never complains about what colleges charge in tuition. They will hoot and holler over $1 charged at ATM machines, what a doctor charged to keep you on this side of the ground, the rent of an apartment in Manhattan, etc, etc. But colleges have raised a $16,000 tuition circa 1984 to $60,000 today and the Left never says a word. Do you think they don’t because it is they who are collecting the money.

For perspective, my daughter attends McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It’s is ranked in the top twenty of universities worldwide. Her tuition and room and board, all included, is $20,000. An in province student’s tuition is $8,000. Her other choice was Boston University, tuition $60,000.