Time to grow a backbone <| sep |> Some asshole decided to make a shoe bomb . Now we have to strip to fly . <| sep |> I applied for an IT cooperative work experience job through my community college to work in my field while I was going to school , and got it . I worked that the whole time I was getting my four year , and the company offered me a full time position . I ended up taking another job in another city where a degree was required . With no scholarships , and no financial aid aside from maybe a ~$ 1500 grant , I had my school paid off within the first quarter I left I had been paying on it the whole time . I also bought a brand new car during this time mostly in cash I ' d been working for a while as a teenager too , including summer jobs . I also had an unexpected baby and nonworking baby mama during this time in my early 20 s . I really don ' t feel like it is as bad as people make it out to be unless you ' re going to Harvard or refuse to work or something . From the people I know and their extended network of friends , the mentality seems to be that they should just go to school not work , live on campus and party on someone else ' s dime , then complain about the bill coming later knowing what they were getting into . That said , tuition definitely needs to be reined in , and part of that is cutting the fat plus possibly some regulation . My tuition jumped every year as I watched them build tons of frivolous buildings that had nothing to do with education , for example . Also , I did two years at a community college and only took classes I could transfer to university . This was a huge cost savings . To sum it up , I think it is easily doable if you ' re willing to put in the work , but just because you can do it , doesn ' t mean you should have to pay as much as tuition is and is continuing to rise . Americans also need to keep in mind that that free school other countries get comes at a cost . Socialist Democracies have some nice pros , but things definitely cost more . There ' s a reason my friends I met in Iceland fly to the US with an empty suitcase to buy their wardrobes , then smuggle it back claiming it was already theirs when they left . The tax on that stuff is astronomical they tell me , and this is just one example of many . If we reined in these universities ' spending , and then subsidized it , possibly from our world police fund , it ' d really help though . Just saying make education free just means tax payers would foot the bill for overpriced education without fixing the real problem . BTW Not necessarily saying you ' re on the opposite side of any of this , or infer your stance just my 2 c .