[Vermont Lt]

I have two. But that wasnt his point. His point is that he has decided that his children won’t get anything out of college. So he isnt going to pay for that.

Lets hope his kids are idiots. Because if they want to be engineers or doctors, they are SOL.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have a college degree. I worked and paid for it myself.

According to your logic, this means I don't owe my parents squat.

What's keeping his kids from doing what I did?

[Svartalfiar]

Lets hope his kids are idiots. Because if they want to be engineers or doctors, they are SOL.

And if they do want to be an engineer or a doctor, they'll find a way to pay for college themselves. Whether it involves military service, working for a company and moving up to get education benefits, or working until they save enough themselves, if they're smart enough then they will figure it out.

[Theophilus]

You have two, your parents had four. You should consider having at least a couple more.

None of my twelve are likely to get degrees, become doctors or engineers or government employees, but I repeat myself.

But they will most likely worship God in church, work hard, write poetry, vote and hopefully have lots of children!

[CodeToad]

“Lets hope his kids are idiots. Because if they want to be engineers or doctors, they are SOL.”

If anyone’s kids are smart enough to become an doctor or engineer they are smart enough to find a way to pay for college. I am an scientist/engineer (PhD, multiple disciplines), my brother is a medical doctor (MD) and a PhD. Neither of us had our parents pay a single dime for college. My wife and his wife are both Masters’ degreed. Neither of their parents paid a dime for college, either. We’re those “rich white people” Obama and his racist minions talk about, yet, the value of an education on all of our children will be learned and not handed to them.

If anyone pays attention to trust funds and free college, the vast majority of trust funds are ran dry within a few years and most college graduates have no education or a job worthy of the expense of college. I know some “rich white people” paying for their kid’s college, but it isn’t working out as well as they thought it would.

Colleges are full of 25 year olds claiming “I only have two classes left”, and have made that claims for several years. Two of my close friends have kids that made the “two classes left” claim, yet, both kids at 26, haven’t graduated and are at least one semester away from any degree. They have friends who make the same claim. The sad and ironic thing is that both of their kids live at home and the parents are corporate managers; managers that can’t seem to manage their own kid’s spending their money.

Assisting a child as they bump around finding their way through college is one thing, paying a free ride is another. Very few children have the maturity to handle it. Some do, the vast majority don’t.