re: What is the liberal explanation for why college costs have exploded?

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Unfortunately it's two-pronged, at the local level and through actual federal subsidization.

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This I agree with.

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But his implication in his OP is that this problem was created by democrats

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Not really.

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Jindal is a pretty decent example for GOP politicians combatting tyrants in higher education as of late

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Nothing pretty about his efforts at all. In fact he stopped well short of what his ability suggested could do.

If Jindal was really serious about it, he would’ve closed SUNO down and told the race hustlers and Democrats in orleans parish to frick off as it’s not like they voted for him anyway.

And he shouldn’t have stopped at that, he should’ve shut down a whole bunch of community colleges and couple other 4 years as well.

We have way too many colleges in Louisiana for a population of its size.

Just another example of Jindal half assing it and then mailing it in for a bullshite presidential run that was dead in the water months before Iowa.

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There is no answer to be given, because I’m not a liberal. But his implication in his OP is that this problem was created by democrats,

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Meh. It asks a question. You could have simply answered it. But you went in to defense mode.

I will point out that way back in the 80s, Republicans tried to increase the GPA requirement to continue getting Pell Grant and Democrats acted like Republicans wanted to burn schools down.

Not to mention, the OBVIOUS driver of college costs is ability to pay and ability to pay is ENTIRELY the creation of leftist policies. Sure. Republicans have sucked at trying to repeal them. But they weren't proposed in the first place by Republicans.

Finally. Were someone on the right to propose reigning in federal student AID, you wouldn't get one fricking Democrat vote in favor. So, let's not try and pretend they didn't fricking cause it.

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I will point out that way back in the 80s, Republicans tried to increase the GPA requirement to continue getting Pell Grant and Democrats acted like Republicans wanted to burn schools down.

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Also the chair of the Education committee last year sponsored a bill trying to take out some of the subsidization in federal loans but couldn't get enough support intraparty.

I was with you most of the way until:

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Were someone on the right to propose reigning in federal student AID, you wouldn't get one fricking Democrat vote in favor. So, let's not try and pretend they didn't fricking cause it.

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You jumped the shark with your “IF a Republican tried.” They have to try before you point a finger.

Democrats are assholes with their spending policies, but so are Republicans. I don’t make excuses for fricking any of them.

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But you are being a twat just to be contrarian.

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Not in the slightest, and certainly not like your being a twat on the grammar sorrows.

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Nah he is referring to conservatives vs. liberals as policy solutions to reverse the tide of a growing problem, not trying to diagnose whose fault it is. For all you can tell from the OP, the origins of the issue might actually be bipartisan in nature.

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By the way, this is all subjective. You’re interpreting your way, I’m interpreting mine. Neither of us has a clue. He will get on here and say he was absolutely meaning what you’re saying, because your politics are the good guy around here, and around and around the shite cycle on here goes.

Bipartisan effort to create a generation of debt slaves

Everyone forgets: these are state schools. You could just order them not to raise prices.