I agree with all of that. This ridiculous idea that everybody needs a house with a lawn and sprinkler system and a daily commute is gladly dying out.
I would rather shovel manure all day than sit in a corner office and/or drive an hour each way in traffic to sit in a cubicle.
I'm hoping that more people take the Peter Thiel approach and go from grade school to some sort of trade, military, or just plain getting out into the world. If you aren't going to be an engineer, physician, lawyer, or any of the other half dozen highly specialized fields, you don't need a university education out of the gate.
The middle class system of creative mortgages, Samsung TVs financed at 0% interest by Best Buy, and a "college fund" needs to end.
"Save the middle class!" is the new "Do it for the children!", and I don't trust any politician that pimps it:
I think trade school should be encouraged and then later on, there should be some kind of requirement about having a work history to be eligible for a good university. Getting out and seeing the world does a lot more maturity and bluntly put, the idea of a ‘college fund’ needs to end. Either pay your own way, or don’t go, or go to a more moderately priced school. Parents shouldn’t be funding what has turned out to be a huge joke of an educational system.
I look forward to the end of the cloned houses, the asinine Little League era ending and people need to return to more practical living situations. As for mortgages and house loans, bad bad bad idea. A nice house with everything paid off is a better foundation than being up to your eyeballs in debt so your family can keep up appearances. Frankly I don’t see the point in having a ‘lifestyle’ if you can’t afford a certain kind of life.
I’m frankly sick of hearing the screeching of ‘saving’ a class of people who quite frankly elected Obama twice because he was ‘cool’ and frankly I’m just not the type of person who wants to live that kind of cookie-cutter life. I do know that the worst kind of problems about our economy come from the expectation that this is the only and best way to live.
Blame the Liberals and elites for illegals, but frankly, a lot of middle class kids are too snotty about hard work to even do those jobs, so quite frankly, I’m pretty disgusted at how so many shriek about illegals coming. Second, a lot of the middle class want jobs, not to work, but to pay for a lifestyle. Which is why businesses often go overseas.
People who are middle class, or aspire to be middle class, need to start being more practical and start being more responsible. I don’t want to save a system that never worked for me and frankly treats me kind of like an outcast failure because I’m not up to my eyeballs in debt to get a pigskin. It’s not worth it and frankly a huge problem of the wealth gap is because of the high-school-to-university system. Much of the vaunted ‘wealth’ is only covering huge debt.