Outside the Auditorium before Bernie Sanders' Bloomington Appearance

[bjo59]

19. Guess you didn't hear the part about so many of those students being crippled by debt.

You can't even attend a community college today without taking on thousands of dollars of debt (and they were free in the not-to-distant past). I guess you don't know that private colleges are in the business of admitting students from low income families and giving them a "free ride" the first year, then each subsequent year lowering their grant awards because the colleges know that with each passing year parents (or the students themselves) will feel obligated to take on the debt to make up the difference because the students have already completed many credit hours towards their degrees. It's a total scam and since when have non-profit institutions of higher learning been in the business of scamming students and their parents? Since tuition costs have skyrocketed (increasing year after year just like medical costs climb year after year), that's when. I find it totally disingenuous that you can write so much about how these are privileged kids with an easy life. What jobs are they all going to find after they graduate? Are you not aware that almost all of the new jobs that are created now are in minimum wage sector? And finally, you couldn't have written this in response to other Bernie rallies, such as the one in the city near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Looking at the faces in that massive crowd, it would have been impossible for you to stereotype them as white kids without a care in the world.