Just in time?

 Labor Day is the traditional starting day for the November election campaign season. You don't need to check a calendar to know when it is close, you can check a Democrat instead. If they are giving away more "free shit", the campaign is about to start.

A few weeks ago, the Democrats in Congress passed, and Biden signed, the Inflation Reduction Act. Nothing in the act will actually reduce inflation, but why split hairs about it? It's election season and Democrats have to pump all the money possible into their deadbeat voters to rouse them into voting in November.

So, a couple of weeks ago President Biden announced that the government will be forgiving up to $10,000 or $20,00 of college debt for up to 43 million borrowers. My only problem with this is where to start the ridicule.

First, who's going to pay the money that is owed or is the federal government just going to print some more money to give itself to cover all of this? Don't worry, the liberals are telling us that this will have no impact on the economy or inflation.

Second, how did we select college loans as the bills to pay? Why not medical debt, auto loans, or home mortgages? After all, you may need an operation, you may need transportation, and you may need a place to live, but did you need a degree in gender studies or race relations?

But as I wrote in a recent post about asking the wrong questions, this is a classic example of the wrong question. Instead of asking "How can we pay off people's college debt?", we instead should have asked "Why are these people acquiring this debt to go to college?" 

I hate the word "transparency", but in the spirit of full disclosure, I did not attend college.

A friend of mine was a year ahead of me in high school. After graduation, he attended the University of South Florida for a couple of years and then moved to a college in Georgis to marry his girlfriend and to finish school there. I lost touch with him around that time and finally ran into him five or six years later at a department store in Tampa. He was working in the men's department selling clothes. He had a degree in marine biology, which was a popular area of study at the time. The university system was cranking out about 50,000 graduates a year with a degree in marine biology. Unfortunately, there were less than a thousand openings a year in that field. Did he ever do anything with that degree other than hang it on his wall? No. He could have started selling menswear right out of high school. But that would not have squandered thousands of dollars of his parents' money.

If people graduating from high school don't understand their country's history, how to add and subtract, how to spell, and how to find their way across their state, why the hell are they going to college? 

We now have millions of college graduates who can't function in life. They can't get a job in a field vaguely related to what they spent thousands of dollars and several years studying. How many gender studies grads do we need? The nation is filled with college grads living in their parents' basements where they spend the day posting on TikTok so the Communists Chinese Party will know where to find them and trying to start their career as an "influencer". Paying their student debt for them will not get them out of the basement and into the work force.

My sons spent their elementary and secondary years in private schools. I paid for their education rather than send them to public schools. They both attended community college where I paid for tuition, and they bought their books. They both have jobs and zero college debt. We paid for their college without any federal loans and now we are going to have to pay for someone else's education? This isn't fair and is certainly illegal.

There are members of Congress, most notably the famed AOC, who have student loan debt. For the executive branch to forgive their student loan debt is a bribe and is undoubtedly unconstitutional.

Vote the liberal bastards out in November!!!