Dear American College students: Go to Germany

[TaraJo]

Unfortunately of the top 20 universities in the world, 18 are still in the US.

There may be a difference in the quality of the educations, true, but I see and hear all these stories about people who are tens of thousands of dollars in debt from school loans. A few years work experience under your belt would usually make up for a less prestigous college and the difference for those first few years certainly wouldn't make up for the $75,000 difference in what it costs to go to college.

As it is now, our people simply don't have the money to do college and I really hate that we're in a position where people have to think about whether an education is worth what it would cost them. This is an investment into the future doctors and lawyers and engineers of our nation and we simply aren't making it. We're going to suffer for this, it's just a question of when and what we're goin to do about it.... and will we have the option to do anything about it, or will we decline so much that our fate will simply be left to the whim of whoever is in charge of us?

And I certainly don't think every college needs to be free or anything like that. We still need colleges that are in the upper echelon, but, damn, can't we have a few options for lower income people other than eternal burger flipping or massive college debt?