Speaking of college degrees, how is your liberal arts degree in philosophy working out for you <REDACTED>? Is the money rolling in, hand over fist, as you quote Descartes or Mills? Must be nice lording over the manor of your esate in <REDACTED>. And since you mentioned the morbidly obese Evergreen coeds, when, if ever, was the last time your physique resembled trim and fit?

Actually I agree with some of your less crazy statements. I oppose college loan forgiveness. When people incur debt, they should pay it off, either with loan payments or service. It's good for people to have skin in the game. People who get their educations paid for by their parents (like you did) or by others tend to appreciate it less than those who spend their own money.

The head start thing falls into a "it depends" category. It depends because the outcome isn't necessarily the same for everyone. I can relate because I didn't have rich parents who paid for my college education, and I didn't immediately work in construction after high school. So I worked a variety of jobs that paid a bit more than half of what I would have made working construction. The lesson I learned is that it takes longer to get ahead financially when earning less. By the time I finished college, my high school classmates who went straight into the trades were financially better off than I. I caught up and eventually passed them, but it took years to do it. If I had it to do over again, I would have gone straight to construction work first, for the financial payoff and skills I would have learned sooner.

A flip side is to attend elite universities like my two daughters did. Their degrees allowed them access good paying jobs immediately. Repaying college loans, which were relatively small, was small change in hindsight. So going straight from high school to college was a better strategy for them; besides, they wouldn't likely have gotten jobs in construction.