Harvard Law School graduates cost economy trillions.
water down those standards some more!
I disagree. Even if every American had a college degree, there will always be a lower class. There will always be unemployment, there will always be fast food burger flippers, janitors, Wal-Mart helpers etc. High School dropouts don’t cost the economy anything, they fill the above roles.
Too often employers require education degrees for jobs they didn’t used to, even though base skills haven’t really changed.
This costs the economy billions, because it keeps people out of the workforce for years more than what is really needed.
It’s easy to see how those who don’t graduate cost us serious $$$...but I see no mention made of graduates who can’t read their diplomas.
They wouldn’t cost us anything if the government wouldn’t give them freebies. If you quit high school, fine...no welfare, no food stamps, no cheap housing, etc. I also think everyone should start off with a certain amount of government money...say 10K and once you go through that, your done for life. If we had started this 40 years ago, we would have zero problems.
How many are illegal aliens?
I don’t see a problem, the Marxist proletariat output of the government schools has never been better.
This is sloppy logic. The low level jobs happen to be populated by high school dropouts, but they are not caused by high school drop outs. Similarly, high school graduates do not for the most part create higher paying jobs that cause more tax revenue, they just happen to get them more often. In this economy, unemployment is high at all levels, and the lower level jobs are being occupied more and more by higher educated people.
The gov’t is going broke with the citizen as tax slave model of ruling.
Just give out free diplomas. Problem solved.
Will anyone look at the real problem:
An underclass culture that celebrates hoodlums and pays more for more bastard babies?
Schools are just the last stop before society is inflicted with these horribly raised kids.
In this day and age, the longer a person stays in the school system, to include the university system, the more worthless he becomes. How many good people were ruined by the Marxist fluff being taught at K-12 and beyond who could otherwise have been decent people if they had simply been taught to read and write? If I were an employer looking to hire, I would consider a Harvard degree to be a detriment, not a plus.
This is utter hooey.
Imagine the typical “Son Of Barry”, a high school dropout, gang member, repeat offender. His value to society is about the -$2,000,000 it will cost to try and incarcerate him for 20 years.
However, send this SOB to Princeton, to sit at the foot of the great Marxist lunatic Cornel West, who will give him a BA for just sitting there, or a Masters degree if he can spout dialectic back at him more or less accurately.
His value to society will have skyrocketed. Hired by the federal Department of Wasteful Spending, he will creatively cost the public purse BILLIONS of dollars, squandered on the most pathetic and aggravating schemes imaginable.
He will never have any real power, but will be like a drunken monkey pounding on a typewriter, with a hundred dollars a character for each character he types, gleefully shoveled into an incinerator.
“Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.”
“Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.”
Teens who are kept in school when they don’t want to be there, cause disruptions in the education of the other students. This is even more crippling to the economy.
Here is what I think is the AP’s sloppy logic:
“High school dropouts are costing some $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue every year”
— is like saying “people who don’t drive their cars seven days a week are costing the government billions in lost gas tax revenue.
The revenue is what it is. Could it be more? Sure. But the fact that more is not coming in is not “costing” the government anything. Someone should inform the AP that it’s just tough luck for the government that people make decisions — whether to get a diploma, whether to drive. Government does not “deserve” any tax revenue from anyone.
“Lawmakers in state capitols are making tough choices . . . “
The AP doesn’t observe lawmakers very accurately, does it?
” . . about whether to raise taxes to keep classroom lights on or to sell off state agencies to provide health care to seniors.”
False choices. Is there no other way to balance their budgets? Do they not have an option to cut wasteful spending and programs, or downsize? Not according to the AP.
And what is this bull about “sell off state agencies to provide health care to seniors”? Even the master exaggerator, Obama, didn’t go far as to claim that. What “state agencies” are states contemplating sellng off in order to fund health care, AP? And to whom? Or did you just make it all up?
You know, I’m beginning to doubt that the AP has actual facts in front of them before they write scare stories about “what could happen.” I mean, if they did, wouldn’t they include them in the article, by way of illustration, if not by way of proof?
P.S.: AP, although the situation that the states find themselves in has been decades in the making, and has nothing to do with this one “sequesterization” battle, can you by any chance link this story to it anyway, as if it is the root cause of all these woes?
“Federal officials, meanwhile, are looking at some $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that are set to take hold at the end of the week”
Good job, AP! I knew you could!