Free college used to be the norm. Both my parents got free academic grants to go to college. If you were a baby boomer you could go to college for free or at a state school for almost free. Baby boomers got theirs and then ‘f-ed’ the next generation. (Same with housing.)

In order to go to college I joined the Military, then got the GI bill and did my undergrad for free. My graduate education was not free and I have been paying for it now for 20 years! It has not gone down significantly, and I calculate I will finally pay it off in my 70s.

My wife is in an even worse boat. She is a nurse and owes $300,000 in student loans. She has no way to pay off her loans except to keep working.

The debt relief that Biden signed wins political points, but does little to addresses the fundamentals of the problem. The modus operandi of the Democrats is to offer a half measure to satisfy their base, but continue the destructive policy.

We don’t need to call it ‘free university’ we can just call it academic grants like what was done for the boomers.