>When you hear people who graduated college in the 1970's or 1980's say "If I did it, then you can do it" all you can do is point this type of thing out - but all too often it falls on deaf ears. Bernie gets it.- the GOP does not.
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>I was talking about people who are doing it NOW. How do you explain that away?

By pointing out that it's not the norm. Seven in 10 seniors (69%) who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2014 had student loan debt,
http://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data-2015
...and it's getting worse and worse every year.