@AverageJoe1
You will never understand helping students out of debt is an investment in our future.
Who do you think it is coming up with new technologies? NASA went 50 years running the same non reusable rockets and Musk comes along and says, lets build a booster that can land so we can reuse them making space flight a lot cheaper.
Or a young Tesla inventing the rotating magnetic field, the basis for most motors now, three phase motors or pushing for alternating current rather than DC which his boss Edison tried to make the standard. Tesla realized you could use AC transformers to up the voltage to thousands of volts to make electric transmission more efficient.
So it is folks like that, highly educated who makes for the next generation of scientists and engineers. If they can't afford to finish college, you would say, get a fukking job at McDonalds and quit bitching. Another mind lost when we REALLY need the best minds we can find. You don't see that happening in China, they are supported from day one.