You’re not comprehending. If only those who are rich can afford college, you have done a great disservice to the nation.
I'm comprehending fine, numbnuts.
First off, I haven't done a disservice to anyone. I didn't go to college and, if I had, I sure the fuck wouldn't want to weasel out of a responsibility I took on of my own free will. That's just wrong.
Second, I've never said that college isn't too expensive.
It is. It's fucking stupid. But the solution for that isn't to simply forgive the debt that's
already been WILLINGLY taken on by people...
Outside of HC costs (also a scam), nothing as gone up in cost more than college tuition. Forcing young people into massive debt serfdom to get a college education, is ignorant and harmful.
Then work to change the system. Work to bring college tuition costs down. I'm onboard with that 1,000%. But I will never agree that erasing the slate for existing debt is a sane way to go.
And the idea that you can't be successful without a high school diploma is silly. I went into the Navy six months out of high school, retiring 20 years later. I then worked in the music industry for 12 years before starting my own photography business, which has become comfortably successful. I didn't have a penny of student debt to pay back, and I'm in a position where I could retire if I really wanted to.
Take a look at the President of Taylor Guitars in El Cajon, California. He and a friend bought out a small luthier's co-op in 1974, in Lemon Grove, California for $3,000. That company today is worth over $100,000,000. Bob Taylor has only a high school diploma and he's fucking rich as fuck; a net worth measured in eight figures...
To what? To the ridiculous notion that forgiving all existing student debt is the way to go?
Not in 1,000 lifetimes would I ever agree with that...