Due to pressing family-related health issues, I have been unable to compose and submit articles to The American Spectator or post on this blog. As much as I have wanted to comment on current events, I have had neither the time nor the focus to do so.

But when Joe Biden decided to buy votes in the upcoming midterm elections by cancelling $300,000,000,000 in college student loan debt, I saw an opportunity for a quick post built around one of my old articles and an inspired YouTube video.

In 2011, I wrote the below opinion piece which was published by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Back then, I was a regular contributor to the Inky. It wasn’t until much later that the editors correctly concluded that the Inky’s predominantly progressive readers would rather not suffer heartburn and upset stomachs by reading my contrarian thoughts. We parted ways amicably.

Here’s the article which discusses why some university graduates may have incurred huge financial obligations while pursuing economically worthless degrees in utterly useless subjects. Please note that the opening paragraph’s references to “AstroTurf tea partyers” and “our selfish, greed-driven society” were sarcastic reiterations of what the Occupy Philadelphia protesters were shouting at passersby outside City Hall. You will see similar sarcasm elsewhere in the piece.

Perhaps it isn’t corporate greed the Occupiers should be protesting

George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor practicing law in Philadelphia

I stopped by the Occupy Philadelphia jamboree last week to listen to the campers’ concerns. In contrast to the unified, scripted message of the AstroTurf tea partyers, the occupiers expressed a wide variety of authentic and informed opinions about what ails our selfish, greed-driven society.

Though their views were diverse, for many of the protesters, there seems to be a central cause animating their disaffection. You see, whether they know it or not, they are exhibiting the classic reaction of victims who have been swindled. Having spent in excess of $200,000 in tuition majoring in Marxist Circle Drumming, Feminist Dance Theory, and similar critical subjects, they are, inexplicably, finding themselves unemployed.

Obviously, the capitalist system has conspired to freeze them out of the job market. The corporations have blacklisted these free thinkers and, instead, are hiring graduates in physics, mathematics, computer science, and other disciplines that purport to provide so-called job skills that will aid in producing “right solutions” to the “practical problems” of aggregating unfair shares of wealth. Could the capitalists be any more predictable?

So, having been victimized by the forces of greed, the campers are understandably bitter. But I don’t think they will find redress by laying siege to City Hall. I mean, seriously, City Hall? If tomorrow it closed permanently, how would anyone know?

I recommend the occupiers seek relief by moving their campsites to the universities that sold them their degrees. The academic scamsters skulking about these institutions probably never uttered a peep of warning about job prospects for nontraditional liberal-arts grads. Instead, like the greedy corporations they routinely denounce, these faculties and administrations kept mum and sucked up as much tuition money as they could.

So, occupiers, move your tents and picket lines to freshman quadrangles across the country. Demand refunds. If you don’t get them, sue your schools for fraud, pedagogical malpractice, and breach of contract. You’ll feel a lot better, and would be doing the rest of us a huge favor.

End of article.

Now take a look at this video which puts into proper perspective Biden’s use of taxpayer dollars to purchase votes in the run up to the midterm elections.