re: #81 iossarian

Oh, fair enough. My point was that, in the 70s, you could reasonably expect to send your kids to a good college if they qualified, and not have to pay too much for it out of pocket (GASP).
Now, you’re $50K worse off, per child, than you were then. And your income hasn’t gone up in inflation-adjusted terms to compensate. Oh, and if you get sick, you might just lose the house.

In other words, you’ve been had.

But, hedge fund managers are doing great! And all that wealth is trickling down on you! Doesn’t that make you feel better!

Not really (again)

My parents (very middle class at the time) had to go in debt to send me and my older sister to college. I was accepted at MIT but couldn;t go because of the costs. The college I did attend was in state, middle of the raod tuition wise and my parents still had to borrow to send me

((parantheticaly ,, I started college in 1971))