09-08-2015, 04:06 PM
(09-08-2015, 03:51 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: I think for one, if government is going to be in the student loan business, they should act like any other entity and determine whether they're making a sound investment.
Not everyone is college material. The fact that government is involved with grants and financial aid and everyone likes the idea of being a college grad, creates situations where fly by night colleges pop up that aren't very good higher learning centers. They are basically opportunists that are taking advantage of people who aren't good enough to get into a real school but like the idea of being a college grad...and of course taking advantage of government money like grants, financial aid, and the GI Bill.
I'm not saying to get rid of those programs, but I think it's naive to let it continue where so many of these people graduate from these "colleges" and are often saddled with debt, unemployed or underemployed, and a lot of times their degrees aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Well, I am definitely in favor of not offering federal aid to students of for-profit colleges (just like Obama). No reason why the government should be paying for an industry's profits, especially when, as you alluded, the academics are often not up to par with state (read: socialist) institutions of higher learning.
Two points re not everyone being college material:
1. FAFSA has GPA requirements. They can be appealed by demonstrating Satisfactory Academic Progress, but the fact is that students with bad grades can and do lose their aid.
2. I presume you are in favor of bringing manufacturing back and raising wages for manual laborers to a living one, then. Unless your stance is that people who aren't college material should not be able to support themselves even if they work full time; aka "shrivel and die".
