Mike Rowe on Taxpayer-Supported College Loans

"If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit," says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, in this ReasonTV interview excerpt. "I get a little curious about it when it gets to a trillion dollars."

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Editor's Note: According to the Department of Labor, college tuition costs have increased over 500 percent in nominal dollars since 1985, not 500 percent the rate of inflation. Read more about the increase here: http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/05/why-students-and-barack-obama-should-shu