re: Are student loans (for undergrads) trashy?

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Back in the day, most middle class kids had parents pay for college with college savings, or at least had a plan with the kid to combine the amount of savings and job kid got in college to pay for college.

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Back in the day, you could pay for college with a job.

That is completely out of the question now.

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I understand loans for grad school and professional school, but racking up significant amount of student loan debt as an undergrad seems like a significant lack of foresight and judgement from both parents and students, and is therefore trashy.

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College is expensive as frick and even schools like LSU cost upwards of $120,000 for 4 years.

Imagine having more than one child.

Destroy all government loan programs and you’ll fix the problem.