We do need nurses, and a number of other things as well. Our solution is to loan money to those who want to be a nurse, a doctor, etc. and then keep them in debt for, literally, years! There is a solution to the whole thing. To be a nurse with a degree costs around 100,000.00 plus interest. Its the same with most other folk that we need. It would be really great if we had a system wherein gov paid for the education and the educated could pay back by doing work for gov for x number of years before going off on their own. There used to be such stuff. I had a friend who wanted to be a dentist but simply didn't have the money. What he did was to have the Navy put him through school and then he was a dentist for the navy for several years. This means that our government used to have such going on and it worked. I do not think such exists anymore. Now the plan is to 'loan' money to a student, add a tasty interest for banks and then keep the loanee in debt for the rest of their life.

We should be proud. We have a government that is as greedy as the very rich!!! There are, actually, people who signed up who have been paying on their debt for over 20 years! We should all be proud!!