What about student loans constitutes a "crisis"?

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111. Causality?

I’d have guessed the routing of people to trade schools vs free college drove the lower attendance rate (didn’t check that claim).

The lower attendance rate makes it less costly.

I disagree some other things you say in this op, but agree strongly with the idea that making improvements is a better way to address the problems rather than just forgive all loans.

One thing I disagree with is casting this as a battle between poor people vs people making 55k. That mostly means I’d draw the line differently. We also invest in education because an educated society is necessary for a functioning democracy. The two extremes would be stop paying for public education entirely or to make it 100% free through a Phd. There is a lot of room between those extremes.

We have a lot of problems to address with finite resources. It is more prudent to fix the biggest issues and keep some of the money and political support available to address urgent in other areas

Out divided government and republican obstinance and democrats getting only controlling enough of government in sporadic 2 year bursts makes all of us desperate to get a single bill passed that fixes as much as can be crammed in. There are always unintended consequences to changes and those are easier to avoid with smaller changes.

That’s a tough balancing act. If I knew we could maintain a majority of government for 6-10 years I would feel a lot better when I argue against big bang type changes. After 8 years of nixon, 12 years of reagan and his minion, 8 years of bush, trump and all the obstruction in the house and senate for years I understand reluctance to not do as much and as soon as possible

I’d rather see us thinking in terms of what can we get delivered every 2 years that makes it more likely to hold control in the next election.