Why are 'For the People' Democrats like Elizabeth Warren trying to get Americans out from under the crushing debt created by student loans, the Great Society social program born of compassion and empathy? Because, says Alan Collinge, our guest on this episode of What Divides Us, student loans, now controlled by the federal government rather than private lenders, are too big to be paid off and too insidious to abide. Collinge, from https://studentloanjustice.org/, advocates for an end to the program and a wiping out of the debt altogether. One of his arguments might surprise you - he says the principals already been paid off because the program earns the federal government $50 billion a year.