re: #400 BeachDem

Thanks—I was thinking of Virginia Foxx (R-Mean as a Snake) who said that nobody should have college loan debt because she didn’t.

“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt. I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money.”

• Virginia Foxx went to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1968. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 1968, the average yearly cost for tuition, room, and board for a public university was $1,245 which, in today’s words, is one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars for a year’s worth of college. For today’s average college student, that dollar amount is roughly equivalent to the cost of a textbook and a garbage bag.

dailykos.com

Republicans—so attuned to today!

Never heard about that one but it doesn’t surprise me she said that given like many in her party/ideology is woefully out of touch with reality. Modern education is expensive.