Posted on 11/28/2014 9:42:32 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
The big flaw in such studies as well as those concerning freewill is that just because many do not avail themselves of the “American Dream” or actively engage themselves in making the right choices doesn’t mean the American dream and the ability to choice doesn’t exist. If you look at the time prior to the establishment of big government as we know it there were huge growth of individual income as opportunities lifted people out of poverty up to the early 1900s. Also the idea that one can use averages to measure outcomes is a faulty methodology because the ease of individuals to break free and exceed birth conditions would be easily be masked in the data which of course is the idea.
I guess we can tell those “Dreamers” to stay in Mexico.(or stay at Harry Reid’s house)
Taxed Enough Already. Big grubment is NOT the solution.
With the government we have nowadays, there certainly isn’t.
It is to a great degree a matter of defining what is meant. More people have degrees than ever but it certainly appears that they have LESS real education if you consider education, as I do, to mean knowledge of how to make a LIFE as opposed to how to make a LIVING. Some have told me that young people now are actually more mature at a given age than their parents or grandparents. If that is the case how do you explain that I rode to school on buses driven by sixteen and seventeen year old student drivers who did a great job while now we have TWENTY six year olds still on their parents insurance? Many of those student drivers, as well as many of their classmates who didn’t drive the buses became married homeowners with children at or before the age when their grandchildren are receiving their undergraduate degrees and most of those grandchildren with degrees could not pass their grandparents eighth grade final in history, english or literature. They may know some math but when I consider how many use ridiculous expressions such as “3000 percent less” even that seems doubtful. People who call themselves “journalists” make errors in speech and writing of the sort that would have gotten me a severe scolding from my fifth grade teacher. In the area around me I could easily fill a large building with people in their thirties, forties and even fifties who have high school diplomas and some even have college degrees but have never been able to support themselves unassisted and probably never will. This contrasts with my youth when the average adult had about eight years of formal schooling but very few relied on anyone but themselves for anything. We now see people who have degrees taking jobs that the average high school graduate of fifty or sixty years ago would have scorned.
I could go on but I am simply reporting my observations, make what you will of them.
This rube needs to jump into pirate and shark infested waters and swim AWAY from the USA.
> A UC Davis economics professor...
...has never held a job.
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