I’m glad that Biden made the shift. I think it is much more reasonable to pay for pre-school and dual credit classes in high school or inexpensive junior college rather than the exorbitant fees for a university education.

If we could find a bare-bones way of getting the University Education without paying for sports arenas, student recreation, and other frills, I would be thrilled. With online classes available, there is no reason to invest so much in buildings, land, landscaping, and garages.

It won’t help me since, who is dealing with a lot of student debt even though we paid for his undergrad. Perhaps it will help his daughter.

"Free" preschool is throwing pebbles in a stream. By mid-elementary, the ripples have smoothed out and you cannot tell who went or didn't. That's the definition of wasted money. And a slap to those of us who paid for our kids.

"If we could find a bare-bones way of getting the University Education "

Community colleges, on line, or just going to the library and reading are all cheaper and better.

"With online classes available, there is no reason to invest so much in buildings, land, landscaping, and garages. "

That's not where the $ goes, it goes into admin salaries of departments that didn't exist a few years ago. Department of X studies, Dean of discrimination, Dean of inclusion, Department of X ethnic students. Each commanding a 6 figure salary and a staff of 20 and budget in the millions. Get rid of dean of science since science is racist and replace with dean of protesting.

Add to that a 6 figure salary for your favorite Dem senators to speak/teach there.

Did no one notice the terrifying part of this situation?

"The White House has previously said Biden wanted to see Congress pass legislation to wipe away student debt, rather than through executive order.

The announcement marks a shift from the White House's previous position last month when Biden's chief of staff Ronald Klain said the president was considering canceling up to $50,000 in debt.

...[Elizabeth] Warren had previously called on Biden to wipe away the debt using executive order."

EXECUTIVE ORDER???? Just casually tossed off there in policy discussions and media coverage. Since when can the President just make an executive order of such magnitude, to spend money like this?

"It just doesn't seem fair for taxpayers who didn't benefit from those pricey college educations to have to pay for them."

You realize that that can be read two ways? I'll bet the vast majority of those who spent their student loans to major in gender studies, or race theory, didn't benefit from them either.

In fact I'll bet that the vast majority of those who want the loans forgiven are in that category.

And the professors aren't exactly thrilled about all the new Dean of Micromanaging positions either.

With online classes available, there is no reason to invest so much in buildings

Part of the reason for in person learning is to meet new people, specifically in your major. This is how one joins the "old boy" network on the ground floor. It may provide opportunities at a later date.

One does not get that level of camaraderie thru zoom.

Student loan forgiveness is unfair, and inciting racial division is dangerous. But people still vote for Democrats.

I could go for a mean tweet and more sensible policies over what we have now.

'The idea that you go to Penn and you're paying a total of 70,000 bucks a year and the public should pay for that? I don't agree,' Biden told the Times.

Sanity. Thank goodness.

Maybe part of the reset after the pandemic will be more skepticism about going into enormous debt for college, which always has been optional but has been sold to the public as a near-universal good.

Pffft, the adultchildren are finally learning that politicians never keep their promises once the votes are cast.

I find it interesting that Biden campaigned with a pledge of wiping out $10,000 of each loan. It's an amount that would be easy to walk back. I know a lot of people grumbled that $10,000 wouldn't really help that much with their situations and that he might as well not bother.

Don’t get too excited about this change of opinion. The reality is that unemployment is higher than expected and so is inflation. The Democrats don’t have the numbers to override their purple members, yet. If they get filibuster proof majorities in 2022, they will push this and other nightmare spending bills through and it will be screw the taxpayer all day long. Elections matter.

A better solution would be to convince jobs to stop requiring a BA for hiring.

Everyone goes to college just means the new criteria will be a Masters degree.

The easiest path to that, NicoleK, is to let employers test potential employees. The current trend of requiring a college degree for anything and everything is a direct response to the federal government making it de facto illegal to issue intelligence and most skill tests to potential employees.

There are so many people taking on more debt than necessary and never paying it off because they expect the government to pay it off for them.

Ever notice the democrats have been campaigning on the same promises for decades? They never actually deliver because they'd rather have it as a campaign issue next time.

And people still vote for them.

They never actually deliver because they'd rather have it as a campaign issue next time. ~ Trust at May 26, 2021 6:04 AM

That's politics in general. It's better to have a campaign issue than a solution.

If you put your trust the Republican Party, you are still putting your trust in politicians, a stupid thing to do, in general, no matter the party.

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” ― Nikita Khrushchev

@Conan: If you put your trust the Republican Party, you are still putting your trust in politicians, a stupid thing to do, in general, no matter the party.
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I never said anything about trusting republicans. But at least with republicans, news media and big tech have an interest in holding them accountable. With democrats they ignore and downright cover for them, to say nothing of all the newspapers and CNN shows that are little more than democratic campaign material disguised as journalism.

"Progressive" = bullshit artist with no ideas other than to use someone else's money.

"Elections matter"? What makes you think you voted? If you can't tell me how your vote was counted...
...you didn't vote. You can't prove you did.