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I don't know anyone who gets free money for college, except for people who inherit their money or have rich parents. I feel like this is a really central part o

I don't know anyone who gets free money for college, except for people who inherit their money or have rich parents. I feel like this is a really central part of your argument, and it doesn't hold water. Every cent we go into debt has to be paid back with interest, and the students who have to foot the bill have zero input in the hiring standards of the companies we have to work for when we graduate. I think trying to save money by cutting benefits to underpriveliged people is extremely wrongheaded. That money is an investment, it's not just set in fire and wasted. (For that, see the vast taxpayer subsidies we hand out to telecoms and dirty coal companies..)

jdreaver 13y ago
> I don't know anyone who gets free money for college Here you go http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/grants-scholarships http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/grants-scholarships
- keeshawn 13y ago
  I didn't even think you were talking about grants. Are you saying grants are responsible for high tuition costs? Without grants, the gap would have to be made up in student loans. What good would that do? It would simply make students assume a higher debt burden to get the same education that society demands from them.
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  - jdreaver 13y ago
    My whole original post is an attempt to refute what you just said. Without grants, there wouldn't be a gap. College would cost less. Also, society "demanding" people to go to college is part of the problem.
    - jbooth 13y ago
      Gonna jump in here -- what makes you so sure it's grants rather than the way college loans work? I haven't done the numbers but I suspect there's like 10x as much tuition coming from loans as there is from grants -- wouldn't that make grants a tiny portion of the problem?
      - jdreaver 13y ago
        In my original post, I talk about more than grants. The person to whom I'm replying just said grants, so I'm just being direct.

jdreaver 13y ago

> I don't know anyone who gets free money for college Here you go http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/grants-scholarships http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/grants-scholarships

keeshawn 13y ago
I didn't even think you were talking about grants. Are you saying grants are responsible for high tuition costs? Without grants, the gap would have to be made up in student loans. What good would that do? It would simply make students assume a higher debt burden to get the same education that society demands from them.
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- jdreaver 13y ago
  My whole original post is an attempt to refute what you just said. Without grants, there wouldn't be a gap. College would cost less. Also, society "demanding" people to go to college is part of the problem.
  - jbooth 13y ago
    Gonna jump in here -- what makes you so sure it's grants rather than the way college loans work? I haven't done the numbers but I suspect there's like 10x as much tuition coming from loans as there is from grants -- wouldn't that make grants a tiny portion of the problem?
    - jdreaver 13y ago
      In my original post, I talk about more than grants. The person to whom I'm replying just said grants, so I'm just being direct.