Senator Joe Manchin

Always wanted free tuition.

And then they finally thought, well, we'll get it free if we go junior colleges.

I says, I'm not for anything free.

I'm for earning it.

And here's what I'm going to tell you.

If, they talked about free college, I says, Bernie, my son's at that time 47 years old.

I said, my son's 40 years old.

If you had free education, free tuition, he'd still be in school.

He liked it so much.

I said, he liked it so much, he'd still be there.

So anyway, I said, no, I'm not for that.

And so I said, let me tell you about free.

If we identified skill sets that were needed and we can teach them in junior colleges, have them sign up, get a Stafford loan, guaranteed federal loan.

They don't pay it back until basically, you know, until they finish their education.

So if they finish in two years, they took a Stafford loan, they took what they needed to get educated on, they took a Stafford loan in a two-year community college, they get a degree in a skill set,

We forgive it.

They've earned it.

You didn't give it on the front end, because let me tell you what happens on the front end.

Only half of them ever get through it, maybe at 25%.

You know, they go for four years, you know, and I don't know if you know how they give money.