We keep hearing the BS that the only way to get the jobs back in the good old US of A is with education…..do you believe this snow job? The bad news, people is that the jobs that have gone overseas are NOT coming back! It is that simple……
With that said…..the pundits that speak in the media about the necessity for education if the country is to remain in the 21st century is a need that we can meet and in doing so the country will regain its place as a world leading in industry…..
May I please see a show of hands of those out there that believe this? (pause here for the vote)…..yes….I doubt the validity of such statements…not that the US cannot do it but rather that they, meaning those in governance, do not want it to be so….why?…if education is the absolute key, then why is it not an important part of the so called recovery?
A Public Agenda report, entitled “With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them,” notes that only about 20 percent of US students who start a two-year college program finish within three years, and only about forty percent of those who start at a four-year university finish within six years.
To explain its results, the study notes that the price of a college diploma has more than quadrupled in the past 25 years, while the median family income has increased only 150 percent during that time.
Only 10 percent of students who drop out report that boredom or lack of interest in the classes were significant influencing factors. Most students who left their classes would have liked to stay, but could not balance their curriculum and their financial obligations.
Nearly half of students at four-year universities work 20 or more hours a week. For community colleges, the figure jumps to sixty percent, while more than a quarter work 25 hours or more. These numbers point to the large proportion of students trying to earn degrees without significant help from parents, social services, or the government.
The study observes that the “traditional college experience” is nonexistent for most students. Only a quarter of students live on campus and “attend the sort of residential college we often envision.” Twenty-three percent of college students have dependent children.
Seventy percent of dropouts said they had no scholarships or student loan assistance. By contrast, only 40 percent of graduates reported getting no such aid. The odds of graduating are stacked most heavily against students who do not have parental support and, seeking to avoid a lifetime of indebtedness, are unwilling to take on student loans.
If education is truly the answer to our lack of industry and is truly the only way to revive the sector…then why is education in this country so sad?…..then why do Americans NOT get the best education in the world?….Then why has every president and his groups of criminals done NOTHING to make education more accessible to the people….ALL the people?
Sorry, dudes….but it is more profitable to have an uneducated workforce….why?….they will work cheap….and there is the answer to the question……when Americans work cheaper than their counterparts in Indonesia then the jobs will come home to roost…..but NOT before!
To buy into the concept of education will make the jobs return is delusional, at best….
The USA, like the UK, failed twenty years ago to wake up and smell the coffee. You cannot have the lifestyle unless you can play to your strengths and be the best in that (those) fields. We all let Japan, China and Indonesia and much of the rest of the far east get away from us in the field of technology. The fact is they’re simply better at it than us and they mostly work a lot harder for a lot less return (though they are starting to reap the rewards).
Frankly, all this BS about maintaining our standards of living is just that – BS. It simply isn’t feasible and we need to start living in the real world! It’s a fact of capitalism that, for one person to be making a really good living, someone else isn’t – to pay for it. Communism doesn’t work, as we all know. For some strange reason, so-called mixed economies (capitalism supposedly with a conscience) usually seem to fall between the other two extremes and generally turn out worse than either of the other two because they frequently wind up with the worst bits of each rather than the best bits.
I think the trouble may be that, in their attempt to have that “conscience”, those that operate such a “mixed economy” listen to all the jerks and the lunatic fringe and forget about reality and the vast majority of normal people. Additionally, whilst they are busy doing this and because they saddle themselves with so much ridiculous legislation to support their “conscience”, rabid capitalism just uses that against them to run rings round them like you wouldn’t believe.
If anything is ever going to change for the better, we ALL need to start living in reality and demanding the same from our governments.
Still, it won’t matter anyway in the future, because, Copenhagen having turned out to be the disastrously expensive waste of time I thought it would be, much of the world may not exist fifty years from now.
Morning Quin….as usual you are right….and you would think with the popularity of “Reality TV”….we would already be there…..and once again you have scooped me on the disasterous meeting….damn….you are good….lol