Free College?

 Did Joe Biden actually say this?  "Public Colleges and Universities Are Going to be Tuition-Free For Families Earning Less Than $125,000."

Yes.

How would this be paid for? Unknown.  

You could walk around some of these high schools, and the teachers shaking their heads....200 of their senior class graduating and 100-percent of them going off to college free of charge.  At the end of this funnel....the kid magically graduates out of college with a marginalized degree, and then you ask....where is the job to equate to the degree?

Well....you can't invent jobs like this out of thin air.

Currently?  It's a mess and probably over one-third of college graduates will never get any real pay scale because of the worthless degree and the career path ahead.

I read a piece recently....talking about colleges in America in 1940 (before the war), and that only 5-percent of Americans ever went to college.  

Today?  You have graduates walking out of college....getting car rental management jobs at the airport....which were formerly for folks without college degrees.  No, the pay didn't spiral upwards....they still make $24k a year on salary.  It's basic work that a smart high school graduate could do, but you are wasting the job on some idiot who spent four years in college.

I look at Joe Biden's suggestion and just shake my head.

Maybe if we were just aiming at kids in science-related or engineer-related schools, and cutting tuition by 40-percent for them....it might make sense.  But even if you did that....who is really paying for this?  The non-college guy who is the air conditioning technician, or the roofer folks?  Why should they be forced into paying for this?

Looking at my crystal ball...I see this day about twelve years in the future.  You walk into a Piggly Wiggly, and from sixteen employees working that morning....fourteen of them hold bachelor degrees.  Matty (the mental nut-case in the fruit-department) and Claude (the retiree) are the only ones without a degree.  You pause and think about the waste of time, effort and resources....then you remember...in America, 'we can make something out of nothing'.  Then you realize the reverse is true.....we can also make nothing....out of something.