I savage because I love, you know that. And because when attacked frontally you resort to less oblique language so it's mostly self-serving laziness.

So my basic problem with your reasoning, if it remains unclear, is that you're viewing an economic stimulus as an educational reform. Which is preposterous. It's not "we'll forgive $10k of future debt" it's "we're forgiving $10k of existing student loan debt" which is sops for the proles every bit as much as the mortgage interest deduction, only targeted to people who view real estate shopping as a spectator sport.

And my problem with your argumentation, if it remains unclear, is that there's no experimentation here. None. We didn't even run it in small numbers. We threw two point two TRILLION dollars at it barely an electoral cycle ago. Fifty million people pulling down stimulus checks. And we know exactly what they did with them. Bottom decile? Paid off debt. Next decile? Paid off debt. Next decile? Put it in savings. Top decile? fucking invested it in the goddamn stock market. It's a settled point.

What do we do about education? Totally different problem. Issue right now is that there's two entire generations with no fucking money. Fuckin' 15% of student loan debt is held by parents of students ('cuz they cosigned 'cuz they're chumps). You wanna lift the economy, you give income to people who will dispose of it.

Look - I think it's awesome your wife was lifted by $20k. Apparently our stimulus as a corporation was a good $20k under the average and I was getting emails that said things like "if you can tell us the exact dollars and cents we just airdropped into your bank account you get to keep it!" What did we spend it on? Salary. If we hadn't had that money? We would have... kept paying salaries because we're essential workers so, yeah. We gave out like a quarter of it as hardship bonuses, like a quarter of it went into medical equipment that we needed 'cuz we couldn't get people in to see doctors anymore and the rest? Fuckin' padded the wallet, G.

Would I rather see poor people get money than rich people? Yes I would. I think anyone who truly understands capitalism understands that if you give a college student $10k it's all going back into the economy whereas if you give a schlub like me $10k I'm gonna go "uhh thanks for the money I'll put it with the rest of my money." And to pretend this has anything to do with education is silly. It has to do with the fact that we've told seven generations that they'll be ditch diggers if they don't go to college and for the last two generations it turns out they'll be ditch diggers anyway. Enrollment is down because the latest generation fucking figured it out.