Student Debts Cartoon

As someone looking into colleges, I have always considered scholarships and other monetary offerings when looking at schools.  Why? Well, this cartoon rather aptly explains the reasons why.  College education in present times is very expensive, and many students have to take loans.  The poor man weighed down with a rather huge load in the cartoon has a five-figure student loan debt -and he has not even finished college yet.  This is a huge issue that Americans are dealing with in present times, that many college-educated students are laden with huge debts before they even finish their schooling.  Combined with the present job-market issues, does not bode well for these students.  

Of course, we have people who don’t believe this is that much of an issue, as shown by the parents standing in the doorway in the cartoon saying “we started out with nothing!”.  Well, better to have started out with nothing and having nothing to lose, and everything to gain, than starting with huge debts that must be paid first before ever gaining anything.  To view these people are irresponsible is to be incredibly short-sighted to the troubles that comes with debts and new times, and is irresponsible of the viewer themselves.  Jeff Parker makes a statement with this cartoon, that perhaps we should not blame the kids for coming back home, be a bit more understanding to their troubles, and maybe actually do something about the issue that is student loan debts.  There is, in fact, a reason why money is a HUGE thing I note when checking out colleges.  I, for one, do not want to be weighed down like that kid in the cartoon with huge debts and other problems.