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I am predicting right now, on June 28, 2013...if this effort looks to be going south, Obama is going to forgive their student loans in a last-ditch effort to put enough cash in their pockets to buy health policies.

Obama is going to forgive their student loans in a last-ditch effort to put enough cash in their pockets to buy health policies.

Let's play that out. Loans are forgiven but current and imminent college students cry "but what about us!? We have/will have loans too, they're just not due yet!" So the government is faced with a choice: make college tuition a new entitlement OR tell these students "tough luck, you missed the freebie". Which do you think Obama would choose? I say "entitlement".

Fast forward a few years. Fueled by free government money college tuition has skyrocketed even more than the previous ridiculous levels (which had been fueled by plentiful government but not free government money. Enrollments are up since it's free now but poor and minority students who went to inner city schools and thus can't read cursive and are otherwise totally unprepared for college are not getting accepted into schools. In essence they are barred from accessing this government benefit. Out of control costs and unequal access to a government program, the government decides it must act. The government of course doesn't care about costs so it focuses on equal access.

So it creates three new regulations. Failure to adhere to these rules will result in the government barring the school from participation in government assistance programs in any way (i.e. no students with government assistance)

First regulation: colleges must accept all students regardless of grades, SAT scores, etc. Failure to accept all will result in loss of all government funding.
Second regulation: colleges must agree to accept an academic standard core curriculum or forfeit access to government tuition assistance (i.e. free money). This curriculum is heavily dumbed down to allow the unprepared students to pass. The unintended result is that good students who are now forced to take stupid courses like arithmetic 101 and intro to phonics will waste most of their college years for little benefit.
Third regulation: college level instructors must be certified to the core curriculum, a long and tedious process of classwork and tests which result in the best professors saying "not wasting my time on that" and thus university teaching staffs are now drawn from graduates of a new "college education" major, not PhDs. The NEA will step in and unionize the new teachers.

All public universities will accept these restrictions so the money continues to flow. A handful of the prestigious private schools (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc) will say "no thanks", will maintain high admission standards and challenging curriculum but only the super rich will be able to attend. The elite will go there, everyone else will have essentially four more years of high school. Over time the NEA will lobby for and get new rules regulating the number of students per teacher, lowering the rigor of the core curriculum, establishment of tenure for these teachers, removal of objective grades in favor of subjective assessments of outcomes. The result of this will be that the cost per student of a college education in the USA will be tens of times more expensive than anywhere else in the world yet within 20 years it will be common for college graduates to be functionally illiterate.

And the leftist destruction of the education system in America will finally be complete.

Obama is going to forgive their student loans in a last-ditch effort to put enough cash in their pockets to buy health policies.

Which would place the burden on paying for their entire tuition, right back on taxpayers like you and me. Gotta admit, it IS his style...