My oldest just started college last year and boy did my eyes get opened. We put away money when she was little, enough to cover what was at that time the projected annual cost for college, and it is now about half of what we need. What really gets me is this: our president wants the government to take over our health care system, the goal being to provide better health care for less cost. The government, for all practical purposes is now attempting to run GM and Chrysler in return for bailing them out. Our universities have depended heavily on government subsidies of varying forms for decades, as well as raising their tuition and “fees” 10-12% per year for years on end, why doesn’t the occupant of the White House want to do anything to get the cost of college down? It would certainly be well within the power and authority of our government to say “if you want to keep getting money from us, get your costs in line with the overall inflation rate.”
