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14. ... expanding Pell Grants to lower-income students.

The only thing Pell Grants and other education subsidies have done is made colleges richer and college more expensive. When I attended college (30 years ago), one could afford college without loans. I know because I did it. I was a full time student, worked nights and weekends and was able to pay for room, board, and college. And it wasn't even that much of a struggle. Therefore, I would conclude that anyone could have afforded to go to college as long as you had some type of a job and the ability to get accepted to a college.

Today, state schools (in VA) are $25,000 a year. I don't see how someone could afford to pay that working nights and weekends.

Health care is going the same way. Health care is expensive because of subsidies. Medicare, Medicaid, and now Obama care. I feel bad for my kids who are around college age now. Things are really going to suck in another 30 years.