Yesterday there was a thread about how most law school grads make no money. The IT sector is under attack from the third world. STEM wages have stagnated for 20 years. Doctors are bailing due to Obamacare. So unless you go to an Ivy League school what exactly does someone major in now?
GloBULLism sucks. It doesn't raise other countries it just lowers the US to turd word status. < /rant >
Nobody gives sh!t
Obama now wants to price fix doctor’s services based on how the patient does, not the cost or quality of care.
Can we first try this with academia (to combat ever rising tuition costs)?
If graduates cannot find work as degreed professionals (in the tech industry, for example), maybe there should be caps or refunds on tuition.
And not just out of school but 20 years after graduation as well...
That is a real concern of mine for my children (and myself, if I was to lose my job); these “re-training programs” don’t do anything if they can’t provide decent jobs (that won’t be sent to Asia or have Latinos trafficked here to fill them).
Yesterday afternoon I got home early in anticipation of the blizzard that wasn’t here in NJ, and for the first time in a while I watched daytime TV; the commercials are just sad. They’re advertising job training for people that require much less investment of time for better jobs than the no-skill ones; while the commercials themselves are nothing new, the number of young white people in them are.
I couldn’t imagine investing time & money in a college degree today; when I did 25 years ago there seemed to be more stability which is now gone altogether. Many of the AMericans I dealt with in financial institutions have been replaced by younger Asians, and people I know in trades have lost jobs to Hispanics. It is no mystery why our birthrate is so low; outside of government employment (which is rife with affirmative action), how is a young person to provide for a family today?
I have cursed globalism for now on 30 years or so and was regularly told I was wrong and that it only made us stronger and there was no threat of us losing our technology to other countries through basically brain-drain, theft, selling it and outright espionage. Most of my detractors were “conservatives” who preached free market capitalism trumps everything.
You reap what you sow.