On this segment from his comedy show, “Redacted Tonight,” Lee Camp takes one country to task for weaponizing free college. Clearly, citizens of this nation are mocking the United States, where some 44 million citizens collectively hold $1.5 trillion in student loan debt.

Camp contrasts the American system to that of Venezuela, which provides extremely affordable higher education to all of its citizens. Universal free education was part of the revolutionary platform of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez.

Meanwhile, American college graduates—and dropouts—often find themselves living in “debt peonage” for decades after entering the working world as they attempt to juggle finding a decent job and paying back their debtors.

Watch Camp tear it apart in the two-minute clip posted above.

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