I guess the joke is on me... After the GI bill, working 2 jobs, and 10 grand in student loans to pay for college, I now know that all I had to be was liberal and gay.
It would be a liberal utopia if we pretended all things are equal but they're not. One of the toucher subjects is education. It might not be fair, but a sheepskin from an Ivy League school will open a whole lot more doors than a degree from State U. $10K in student loans would cover the lunch tab for an undergrad degree at Brown.