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<p>Well, when you put it that way you’re making me sound like an idiot.</p>
<p>When I was 18-22 I was naive and I was expected to go to college like all the other girls and boys. So I did. I did what ever was standard for college students to do: apply for financial aid, apply for scholarships and whatever was left over you’d take out loans for. I was able to take money from the federal government. So I did just that. I thought college was something I needed to do and this was the easiest way to make that happen.</p>
<p>College costs are higher because of the mere fact that the federal government pays so much of students’ tuition. Look at the sky rocketing tuition costs. It mirrors the sky rocketing healthcare costs. It is a symptom of the federal government getting involved in sectors it has no business being involved in.</p>
<p>The federal government should not have their hand in paying for student’s tuition. It’s ridiculous to me. Especially when undergraduate degrees are a joke anyway. Any job that actually requires knowledge obtained from a degree usually comes from a post graduate degree anyway.</p>
<p>My complaint is that I never should have gone to college. I couldn’t afford it and it was not something I needed. Of course I made the decision to go and I hold myself responsible for that. I’m just saying that the federal government being involved made it a much easier decision for me to go.</p>
<p>I’d compare it to the sub prime loans the banks were giving out during the housing bubble. Those people should not have been given those loans if it didn’t look like they could pay for it. We all saw where that mess got us.</p>