Robert Samuelson Wants the Government to Stop Trying to Help People Into the Middle Class

His piece today notes that many people who start college don't finish and that many people got themselves into bad mortgages that they could not afford in the housing bubble years. He therefore concludes that government really cannot do much to ensure low income people a path to the middle class:

"What also cannot be wished away are on-the-ground realities that impede middle-class status for more Americans. Only one-third of children born to the poorest fifth of Americans graduate high school...