[KC_Conspirator]

She is part of Big Academia saddling our kids with debt.

[Oldexpat]

Big Ed charges the kids for 500k profs and then uses Temp Adjunct Lecturers to teach them. Big rip off.

[LouAvul]

She's a typical liberal whore led by her emotions, pimping ideas simply in hopes of getting votes. In that latter respect, she's no different than every political whore who preceded her.

The tragedy is that, if she's elected, she'll try to keep her promises.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. That is THE major part of the equation which nobody talks about. Both of my parents taught at the university level and made less than unionized high school teachers because public policy in that day stressed making college affordable.

Today, when both benefits and salary are calculated, college faculty makes well out of proportion to what their counterparts do in the private sector with similar qualifications and workloads (with some private school exceptions) mainly because the abundance of government loan money has made it possible.

Any loan forgiveness needs to be accompanied by putting at least a portion of those loans back on the institutions which benefited from them and getting the government out of the loan business completely.

Loan rates should be based on the probability of a particular field of study turning into an actually professional career. IOW, quite low for someone majoring in nursing or engineering and high for somebody majoring in professional victim studies.

[spudville]

“We don’t build an America by saddling our kids with debt.”

But if we saddle everyone with poverty causing taxes to pay for Democrats ideas, we’ll destroy America much faster and then declare we need a totalitarian government to straighten out the mess.

[cnsmom]

Just more government money laundering to academics so they have a job. Colleges need to pay back the loans after 5 years.