In the September 15 Wall Street Journal there were three letters responding to an editorial on the Obama administration’s soft and cuddly policy on repaying student loan debt, for those who get “public service” jobs. One of them was mine, one was by a man in Savannah who finds it appalling that “the government sees fit to forgive debt for people who choose careers in regulation, wealth redistribution and just plain giving stuff away,” and one, which I copy below, was by Robert Iosue, president emeritus of York College. He nails the problems exactly:

The taxpayer picks up the bill for a burgeoning new entitlement that has been administratively created. Is there anyone so blind as to not see a continuation, even an acceleration, in preposterous tuition increases? I can assure you that tuition increases didn’t cause loans to be initiated. Rather, it’s the other way around: Loans have caused tuition to go up.
Government loans are easy picking for the student who feels payback is a lifetime away, easy for the colleges since they get all the money and none of the obligation, and great for President Obama, for he and his followers can capture a block of voters at the expense of taxpayers who pay the bill
Robert V. Iosue
York, Pa.