Rob Rogers for May 06, 2014

It used to be that you could easily pay off those low-interest student loans with a decent job after graduating college.Then came the Obama years.

Well done, Rogers! Our local (state) university just raised its tuition rates by three percent. Too bad the students don’t quit binge drinking and start studying.

This is national disgrace!

The average college graduate pays about $5800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $172,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $42,000 a year to attend school.This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes. And they would be buying more products which would boost the economy, and put more people to work at jobs that require all different levels of education.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, as long as the student is making decent grades, totally free, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education.We don’t, even at a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.

What made college so unaffordable? The availability of government backed student loans…

Hmm, Nixon was President when I got a Bachelors, and even folks without VA (that didn’t quite cover my rent) could still afford tuition and books, though textbooks were always WAY over-priced, even used. It was the decline in willingness from taxpayers to support public colleges and universities that started driving up tuition. And that started happening in earnest under “Reganomic” economic theory.

The founding fathers began the list of laws that said income from disposal of the public domain would go to education, and every land bill since repeated that. Education IS our best investment, but when we have supposedly educated “doctors” and “legislators” who say evolution and science in general are just frauds that contradict the bible??? Yes, educational standards HAVE apparently gone down.

It would be no problem paying off those low-interest loans if people could find work under Barry……

http://www.businessinsider.com/lfpr-falls-to-lowest-level-since-1978-2014-5#!J18Mo

Public University education in particular has become more expensive. The rate of increase jumped in the late 80s & early 2000s. Blaming it all on any President is a foolish argument.