Commentary on “Affording College Education”

In response to Kyle Grier’s blog post on college education affordance, I agree with his claim that “Cheaper loans and more opportunities for students is the route the U.S. needs to take to maintain its position as a world power”; also, I agree completely with his stance on Mitt Romney’s decision to cut spending on Higher education.

It is a well known fact that college is expensive and not many students are able to afford continuing their education, if you do not believe me go check out U.S News. With this being understood, it only seems logical to agree with Grier and his Romney argument (that Romney is doing nothing to help the poor by cutting higher education spending-something that would cost over 1 million students their future in education).

I further agree that while the deficit, especially in today’s failing economy, is of paramount importance, college education is of even more significance for multiple reasons. One, no matter what happens in our economy a deficit is inevitable. The government spending too much money and not taking in enough taxes to compensate has been the status quo for many years, therefore, our nation’s debt is not going to be improving any time soon. Of course minor changes (like cutting spending from the higher education program) will help in this deficit, but is the risk worth it? This is not an issue of allowing minorities to obtain education, but rather allowing students in general the opportunity to continue their education, receive degrees, enter the economy with new ideas, and stimulate the market. Second, the higher education program was enacted for the purpose of education and has prospered and over exceeded the bills expectations. Because of this statistic, there is no valid argument Mitt Romney has to cut the program other than deficit crisis (which can be easily looked passed considering it’s inevitable). Romney argues that students can receive loans or join the military, but this would just further increase the problem of never ending college debt.

http://maristpoll.marist.edu/1213-cutting-the-deficit-should-be-next-sessions-main-concern/

http://blogmaverick.com/2012/05/13/the-coming-meltdown-in-college-education-why-the-economy-wont-get-better-any-time-soon/

http://www.americanbridgepac.org/2012/05/wire/research/bridge-briefing-mitt-romney-higher-education/