work in a profession that will allow them to pay for it. If you can't cashflow college, or be prepared to pay as you go through a college fund that you have been contributed to, then you need to continue to live at home with your parents and attend a local university or community college to get started. The problem is, there are a bunch of idiots that took out the maximum student loan they could get and used it to pay for college, living expenses, cell phones, eating out daily, partying with their buddies, etc... I don't see how anyone can justify the government using taxpayer money to bail them out. Aside from that, colleges are out of control on tuition costs... if anything should change, it should be the gov't forcing public universities to reduce the cost of tuition instead of the universities increasing the tuition costs allowing them to build newer facilities every year.