Reply #79: Because the battle over how to pay for college is a completely different

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debate.

Yes, we have to elect politicians like John Edwards who understand the difference between a grant and a loan and who don't want to use people's efforts to move into the middle class as an opportunity to shave off a lot of the wealth created and give it to privately-owned banks and Wall St.

But staying out of college and relegating yourself to incredibly low earning potential is not going to solve that problem. You want to have no political power? You want to be a cheap input into the profits of a big corporation? By all means, don't get an education. Make 20k a year.

At the very least, try to go to school. Try to pay for as much of your college costs as possible. Hell, load up the credit cards with everything and use your cash to pay off your tuition expenses (because you can dissolve that debt in bankruptcy, but you can't dissolve student loans). Take 8 years to graduate from college and work two jobs to pay for it.

But don't NOT get an education.

If you have nothing in life to sell for money except your labor, the only way to make your labor more valuable is to learn something. Whether it's a trade school, college or graduate degree, people really should educate themselves.