Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
Is that what schools do, trick a gullible teenager into taking a loan? What about the gullible teenager's parents, are they culpable? Hey mom & dad, I'm off to college to major in basket-weaving and gullible teenage studies, and I'll be racking up debt out of my ying-yang! Okay, son (or daughter) we're so proud of you...

No one wants to be responsible for their own actions these days. It's always someone else's fault.
Yes. Parents should be setting their children up for success by laying up inheritance for them, not failure by sending them off to "bootstrap it" and then find out that basketweaving is not a high-demand industry.

Most people do not have the requisite intelligence to consent to financial decisions of this magnitude. The percentage is even higher in Louisiana.

Remove the "college for all" mindset and you remove a huge part of the problem.

I am not saying that no one should be responsible for their actions. I am saying that tricking someone stupid is wicked.