What about student loans constitutes a "crisis"?

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22. I'm not a millennial

I’m a Gen-Xer. And have had lots of colleagues saddled with huge amounts of student loan debt. I worked hard, AND went to college. A shitty private college with a sales pitch on how much we could improve our livelihoods obtaining that degree. But since I was 15, I had my goals set on being a Graphic Artist, so I went for it. For starters, this fucking school had a way of sucking up all spell Grant money every quarter that I qualified for. So unlike others who went to universities I never saw a dime of that money. I couldn’t buy a car with that money or even a personal computer. I suffered and sacrificed for years to get my degree!
After obtaining it, I managed to land my 1st job (even though that shitty school guaranteed job placement). I cut my teeth in the newspaper industry. You wanna know what my ducking wage was? $8.50 per hour!!! You wanna know what it was when I left half a decade later? $9.36 per hour!
Luckily I saw the writing on the wall and left for the casino industry, where I made nearly twice as much. But guess what? It was 72 miles away, on an Indian Reservation where I commuted another half decade. I didn’t qualify for that stupid-assed income adjustment but it didn’t account for how much I spent on gasoline or operational costs! I stopped paying on that fucking loan a long time ago. Last I inquired the interest is $6 a day!!!! It is the ONLY debt I’ve had in my life! I’ve never had a credit card or a car loan. I bought my shitty house in a real estate contract and paid it off in seven years. I’ve sacrificed plenty in my life, but I’d gladly accept getting that loan off my head. It is disproportionately expensive, has an unfair interest accrual rate, is inflexible, and the college I went to was predatory. I’m still a graphic artist-working elsewhere, underpaid, and still struggling. I never started any marriages or a family because of the sacrifices I made in early adulthood. Now I don’t even have that. Screw people who have that “well I got mine” attitude. It’s that same paradigm we hear from Republicans.