Newsflash, DUmbshits--when people like you say you're willing to "pay any cost" or that something should be "free" then guess what? It's going to cost, alright--and while it might be "free" up front, the back end costs are a shitload higher.
Put it another way: if there were no such things as Pell Grants, etc., and that college scholarships were entirely based on ACADEMIC ABILITY rather than sticking your hand out and going, "Gimmegimmegimme," along with some other little caveats like, say, only people who are actually READY academically to go to college actually go instead of spending their first two years taking remedial coursework, what do you think would happen to the costs of education? Instead of paying the senior Senator from MA (aka "Fauxcahontas") over $350K per year to teach ONE course, you might actually get people in the system who, you know--ACTUALLY WORKED? And speaking of work, how about performance? Now how would we improve that? Hey, how about getting rid of tenure--you know, people actually have to perform at a certain level FOR THEIR ENTIRE CAREERS like the rest of us schlubs do!
Now all of you can pretty please go die in a ****ing fire.