{"id":48,"date":"2020-02-06T03:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T03:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2020-02-06T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T03:06:14","slug":"should-college-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/should-college-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Should college be free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review Lagunita’s Brown Shugga<\/a>, a brewing mistake that turned into a “special ale” in their regular rotation. It’s quite good. <\/p>\n

Once they lubricate the mind muscles, the boys turn their attention to recent proposals by some Democrats to make college free. <\/p>\n

Is free college a good idea? <\/p>\n

No, it’s not! <\/p>\n

First, not everyone should go to college. College should be for the intellectual elite. Many people should pursue trades, not degrees. <\/p>\n

Second, colleges are hardly “institutions of higher learning” any more. They’re mostly left-wing indoctrination centers. The liberals want free college because they know that colleges are mostly liberal and they want to push the culture to the left. <\/p>\n

Free college is stupid enough, but it gets even worse. What about proposals to forgive student debt? <\/p>\n

If we forgive the debt of people who made wrong decisions and got into a lot of debt, what do we do with the frugal people who paid their way? Do they get paid back? <\/p>\n

Sen. Elizabeth Warren had her “Joe the Plumber” moment when a man confronted her with exactly that question. <\/p>\n

It’s a good question. <\/p>\n

Free college puts people in situations where they are likely to fail. It takes people who might have been successful and happy in a trade and makes them failures in something they aren’t prepared for. That’s not helping. <\/p>\n