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When you ask people to front load their economic lives with basically a mortgage of debt, and it becomes untenable to ever catch up because your degree is overlooked in the sea of degrees kf other debt holders and HR wants over qualified morons for barely over factory work wages - people look at that and rightfully nope out.
You
could have had a solution 
to that with a very affordable "how are you going to pay for that" and you chewed him up and spat all his supporters out while rolling out the red carpet and giving candies to neocons.
So don't cry to us crocodile tears when people resort to the trades and make as much as a bachelors degree holder with paid training and zero debt.
I loved the part of the article where they said the percentage of jobs that don't require a degree and also make over $130k/yr account for less than 1% of all jobs, but they failed to drop that number to the significantly more normal sounding $100k because then it would have picked up all those evil trades and pumped the number up significantly. I would also love to see the percentage of college graduates who make over $130k. Either of those figures would dunk the ever living shit out of this article.