The student debt crisis isn’t just a problem—it’s a slow-motion financial collapse. More than 18 million students are currently enrolled in U.S. colleges, each paying an obscene premium for a degree that, more often than not, leaves them drowning in debt and struggling to find meaningful employment. The cost of a four-year degree has skyrocketed over 400% in the last four decades, yet colleges and universities still beg for more taxpayer money. And Washington, ever eager to buy votes, obliges—to the tune of over $170 billion a year in federal funding. But what are we really getting for all this money? Not education. Not job security. Instead, we’re producing a generation saddled with lifelong debt, programmed with ideological nonsense, and…

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