Providing affordable education doesn't mean throwing more government money at the voracious appetite of higher education institutions in this country.  It means auditing and demanding that college costs drop back to a level that is in line with inflation measures used for the rest of the economy. It means demanding that state-supported universities clear out professors teaching only a class or 2 (with a graduate student filling in) for a full salary, that they eliminate departments with very little interest and almost no students in that major. That they practice serious quality control to wave goodbye to professors who can't teach, don't know their subject (yes, my son has had one of those in only a year at Metro), can't be understood by students, and practice either punitive or ridiculously lax classroom policies.  

Cranking up student loans and government grants to accommodate increased college costs only increases college costs.