For many, President Biden’s loan forgiveness program is a miracle

Dear Editor:
After 35 years of marriage, we finally paid off my wife’s college loans... two years into her retirement.  It made Social Security go that much further :)  still, we don’t resent those who might benefit from this move to provide loan forgiveness.
Yes, when we went to school in the 70s college was considered the “golden ticket” to the good life. But due to changing circumstances that became a mostly empty promise. So much so that Massachusetts, a state with an economy based on education, moved to substituting years of job experience for years of education!  
Personally, I have only two years at UNL, but in Massachusetts my real world experience made me a masters degree candidate in the workplace.  College diplomas have lost their value in the workplace over the years, but at the same time the higher education industry kept selling the lie. In fact trade schools and community colleges offer lower cost, higher value educations.
In the meantime, the lives of a generation have been held hostage to the myth that a four-year degree is a must. I’m not against a college education. I think brain surgery is best done by someone with the right education.
For me, bottom line, the educational industry has helped create a financial underclass, a group of well intentioned individuals, seeking to better themselves but victims of a changing economic landscape.
I cannot resent helping those in need. If things have turned out well for you personally, if you have been able to afford your college loans, don’t just walk away and say  “I got mine...”  What would Jesus do? It wouldn’t be, “hey, you should have thought of that and bought more wine in the first place.” He would help the needy with a miracle.  
For many, the loan forgiveness is that miracle.
Larry Molczyk,
Aurora