[Wuli]

“Everybody doesn’t have to go to college, but the gloves are pretty much off.”

Most of the most successful people in America today never went to college. Its highly over rated except for the still hard-sciences like medicine and engineering. The vast majority of college courses provide little skills-education and a ton of political indoctrination.

“The fantasy land America experienced following WWII is done and gone.”

And, by “fantasy land”, you are referring to what, exactly, or do you always communicate in cliches?

[durasell]

The old “successful people never went to college” thing is way overplayed and largely untrue. Bill Gates, fer instance, went to an exclusive prep school prior to Harvard and had a ton of contacts when he went into software.

Post World War II America (1947 to 1973) was an economic anomaly, the likes of which we are very unlikely to see again. Not only is Europe re-built, but Asia is developing infrastructure (both human and manufacturing) at a very rapid pace.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Medicine is an applied science and art not a hard science.