> In my opinion we should be talking more about years of debt held rather than amount of debt held. In theory, college is supposed to "pay for itself", but if some people are continuing to hold student loan debt 10 years, 20 years, 30 years after college, then college obviously did not pay for itself in those cases.

We should also be talking about the federal government's pullback in funding higher education. Public universities used to be the primary route for people to get a higher education.

We need to be talking about WHY college is so expensive.