The reverse class resentment on student debt/free college is disturbing.

[Tweedy]

90. Student beware

The price we force adults to pay for choices they made as teenagers are staggering these days.

It was not always so.

The brain of a 22 year old is not fully "adult"-- that is if I read neurological studies correctly 😉

Why would we want a system that sets up so many to fail? Why not require schools be schools not profit mills?

Who does it serve? We are not separating the wheat from the chaff. We are burying our bright shiny young dreamers under mounds of debt. To what purpose?

Why invert the burden?

We have been inverting the burden for most of my life in almost every area. We call victims suckers and kids who get conned, failures. We even have a large block who cannot see why people who invest our money should not be able to steal it along the way if we are not "smart" enough to stop them.

I respect Senator Klobuchar. I have not heard her use that language.

This is not a question of whether kids, with some luck, can ferret a way through the maze we have set in their way.

Adults can too. Yet, I bet you still agree with me that Bernie Madoff belongs in jail.

This is a question of why we allow the maze in the first place.