Biden free college a reality?

[bluebooger]

Thousands and thousands more would apply making it much more competitive. Not only in the admissions process but also in the market place. Diluting the value.

You can't "dilute" the value of a smarter populace.

Having idiot citizens is already the downfall of the USA.

why does going to college equal smarter ?  

I agree that having idiots citizens is ONE of the reasons for the downfall of the USA 
but going to college doesn't necessarily mean you won't be an idiot 

example: One time Congressman Henry Johnson was talking about the number of US troops on Guam and said, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize," 

later he tried to play it off by saying he was using a metaphor and was talking about the island's ecosystem.

He is an idiot. 

He received a B.A. degree from Clark College and a J.D. degree from Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, but he is still an idiot 

There are plenty of morons on both the republican and democrat side of the spectrum and everywhere in between and on the far sides  

as Seagull said, K through 12 school is already free, so if cost was a factor we should be seeing all but a few high school graduates who can read, write, understand basic statistics, know how to set a budget, know basic history ... 
yet we know that isn't true at all 

many, many, many 17 year olds are illiterate 

I'm sure we all heard about the Baltimore student a couple of weeks ago who was in the 11th grade and had a 0.13 GPA 

making college as free as the first 11 years of that student's schooling isn't going to help that student at all   

sure, there are a lot of smart HS seniors who can't afford college and there should be something we can do for them 
maybe for every year you serve honorably in the military you get one free year of college ? 
maybe free trade school or free medical related school (nursing, radiology, etc) in exchange for you working for the state or federal government -- I think there is already a federal nursing program for this -- the government pays for your nursing school and in exchange you server on native indian lands for a period of time

I have no idea how free university education in Europe works 
what if you get accepted into a computer science program and after 1/3 of the program you decide "this is boring. I want to study marine biology" 
can you start all over and have the government pay for it again ?

seems wasteful