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1 posted on 02/24/2013 8:41:24 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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I met a young man recently with a degree in “Environmental Studies” from screwball UCal/Santa Cruz, home of the Banana Slugs. His student loan is $90,000 and he still can’t get a job.

This doesn't even qualify him for Walmart. He has no register experience.

It's not Wall Street robbing these kids. The liberal colleges and their professors are getting rich, rich, rich of these young suckers.

2 posted on 02/24/2013 8:46:17 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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It used to be that college students were preferred for high tech and other jobs due to their presumed critical thinking skills garnered from 4 years of higher education. The only thing being garnered from our institutes of higher learning is how to take advantage of the system, how to roll a joint or funnel a beer, and how to hook up with random people.

College is a joke anymore.


3 posted on 02/24/2013 8:46:34 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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Unless you study engineering, pre-med, math or sciences college is not really worth it. These are non PC majors and you actually use what you learn in your career. Most profs in these areas are non political.


6 posted on 02/24/2013 8:55:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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We’ve used taxpayer money to pump the colleges full of students who are better suited to the factory floor (I know I was but I didn’t waste resources or space in college) Along with those students come professors who would also be better suited somewhere else.

Meanwhile the best and brightest students are forced to slog through a cesspool liberalism when the rational thing would be to have the top professors teaching the best students.

Its no wonder we’re falling behind.


7 posted on 02/24/2013 9:00:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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This is typical of the marxist libtard approach to all things - spend a lot of other people’s money and wind up with nothing to show for it except a lot of debt.


8 posted on 02/24/2013 9:04:46 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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Just get to know the folks working at your nearby Starbucks and you can visualize half a million in school debt right before your eyes. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was that the largest asset held by the Fed govt is school debt. We are devolving into a service oriented society, in which no one will be able to afford those services in a generation. We are no longer thinking college is mandatory for our kids. Find something you love to do, because then you never have to go to “work” everyday.


10 posted on 02/24/2013 9:14:45 AM PST by ScottinSacto
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A lot of what college is about these days (not all, but a lot) revolves around a jobs program for the unemployable drones that emerged during the 1960’s, masquerading as anti-war protesters.
12 posted on 02/24/2013 9:25:02 AM PST by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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Permit student education debt to be discharged in bankruptcy and the bogus degrees will disappear. Eliminate federal tuition assistance or guarantees and college costs will plummet.


15 posted on 02/24/2013 9:34:13 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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Arête.


17 posted on 02/24/2013 9:38:59 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I met a young man recently with a degree in “Environmental Studies” from screwball UCal/Santa Cruz, home of the Banana Slugs. His student loan is $90,000 and he still can’t get a job.

Well, it DOES qualify him for honest work...


21 posted on 02/24/2013 9:51:11 AM PST by freedumb2003 (I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
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You are trained to do a job. You are educated to be a good citizen.


23 posted on 02/24/2013 9:57:47 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Our neighbor kid with liberal Canadian parents is going to get a degree in Philosophy. “Would you like fries with that? And why do fries exist?”


25 posted on 02/24/2013 10:05:01 AM PST by DungeonMaster (How does God feel about gay marriage?)
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