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American college grads: Homebodies with worthless degrees
time ^ | October 15, 2009 | Justin Fox

Posted on 10/24/2009 11:44:00 AM PDT by george76

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To: centurion316

First let’s send all our lawyers overseas.


21 posted on 10/24/2009 12:03:16 PM PDT by satan
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To: george76
Long ago I got a BA in History. I had a lot of fun getting it, but I've never used it. My niece just started college and she's majoring in history. I took my brother aside and said: "Bad idea. It will not help her and it will cost you and arm and a leg. You need to tell her that you will pay for a useful college degree, but not a Liberals Arts degree. I've been there -- I know what I'm talking about."

My brother just shrugged. He is, after all, a barking moonbat.

22 posted on 10/24/2009 12:04:10 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: RnMomof7

A lot of the seemingly low pay overseas is due to mispriced currency. Guys in India making $50K can live as well as they can in California on 100K. Housing in India is high if you have to buy, but the rents are amazing cheap. You can get a nice two-bedroom apartment for $200 a month.


23 posted on 10/24/2009 12:04:57 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: BunnySlippers

That is not true. MBA programs are still placing the majority of their students.

Its a wakeup call for liberal arts students. They are unemployable.

Hard science? That is bull. Our better universities are producing excellent students. Perhaps Ohio State University isn’t, it that twit’s opinion, ...

BUT the real problem with US students is their lack of work ethic. They are, for the most part, lazy and think they are entitled to employment and not having to work.

Obama is making it worse. Its ALL about entitlements and being lazy. Now he wants all these losers who can’t get into college now to get financial aid to jam our universities with even more stupid and lazy students.

Would Obama have actually gotten into Columbia, Harvard (or even Occidental) on his own merits? Probably not.


24 posted on 10/24/2009 12:06:05 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: mysterio
When they started giving out degrees to people like Obama based on their skin color, a degree became worthless.

The degrees most blacks get are not worth the ink they are printed with.

It's like hiring someone with an honorary doctorate to run your science lab.

25 posted on 10/24/2009 12:08:57 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: george76

I want a burger alarm company..!!


26 posted on 10/24/2009 12:09:21 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
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To: RnMomof7

Bingo!!!!


27 posted on 10/24/2009 12:10:22 PM PDT by Rays_Dad (H. Clinton-Every man who looks at her is reminded of his first wife, even if he's never been married)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Having shared courses with people of all races, I disagree with your race-based conclusions.


28 posted on 10/24/2009 12:12:09 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Osage Orange

8-)

you read the comments


29 posted on 10/24/2009 12:14:49 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: BunnySlippers
I met two lovely young 20-somethings in a dining group I belong to. Both ready to get their MBAs. Didn't have the heart to tell them that their degrees were close to worthless.

They are fortunate that people doing the hiring and firing don't hold your view.

30 posted on 10/24/2009 12:14:49 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: AndyJackson
“I think they will discover that they have incentivized their own personnel problems.”

I agree. Further, the type of ‘reform’ that Obama wants to force on health care will lead to a reduction in incentive for drug development in the US, and commensurately the incentive to pursue careers in science will also diminish.

We shouldn't be looking for ways to convince people to live overseas. We should be looking for ways to kick the rear ends of these other countries economically. Of course, at the same time that we need more incentive in our system to encourage risk taking and hard work, the Obama administration and his liberal fans are taking away incentive by punishing the successful.

And liberals think they are smart. Go figure.

31 posted on 10/24/2009 12:17:01 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: whitedog57

Nobody who gets an engineering degree (and the same could said about a host of other degrees from Sciences, Math, Finance, etc) from a reputable college is lazy. They would done in by Freshman Calculus, Chemistry, and/or Physics.

You need to look no further than what the makeup of majors looks like from a typical U.S. University as opposed to one in India. I don’t think they even have Liberal Arts departments. On U.S. campuses the hard (vocational type) degrees are in the minority.


32 posted on 10/24/2009 12:18:02 PM PDT by exhaustguy
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33 posted on 10/24/2009 12:18:42 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: centurion316

I wouldn’t want to undermine my conservative cred, but... money isn’t everything. I have two kids, one a few years out of a great Liberal Arts college with a degree in English Lit who’s working for a big company with a mouse for a logo doing on line “game and community management editorial”, whatever the hell that is. (She has several IT degree holders under her.) My son is almost finished at a great books college, St. John’s. I trust he’ll find a way to make enough money to support the life he wants to live which, at this point, seems to be a life of the mind.


34 posted on 10/24/2009 12:21:17 PM PDT by SoCalRight
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To: SteamShovel

LSIT here, subdivision and other boundary work (my specialty) is down but there is always a need for quality as-builts and staking. I went to a community college 2 year civil program and received and education qualifying me for numerous jobs including inspection, QC, and even construction engineer positions without necessarily moving. All for about 2-5% of what these degrees cost. A piece of paper isn’t necessarily worth much in the real world...JFK


35 posted on 10/24/2009 12:24:32 PM PDT by BADROTOFINGER (Life sucks. Get a helmet.)
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To: Gondring

Well, I hire and fire. And I have 44 years of work experience. I have seen MBAs get in my field and have absolutely no practical experience.

In other areas not as specialized as mine, there may be more mileage from advanced degrees.


36 posted on 10/24/2009 12:28:09 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: george76

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37 posted on 10/24/2009 12:28:23 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: C19fan
Multinationals like to hire foreigneers because they are cheap labor.

You have "cheap" confused with "hard working" and "dedicated". The actual term that sums it all up is "hungry", which means they want more challenges, not less.

Too many Americans feel a sense of entitlement.

38 posted on 10/24/2009 12:29:48 PM PDT by SampleMan (No one should die on a gov. waiting list., or go broke because the gov. has dictated their salary.)
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To: Osage Orange
I want a burger alarm company..!!


39 posted on 10/24/2009 12:35:27 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: BunnySlippers

They would have be better off having a technical undergrad degree with an MBA.


40 posted on 10/24/2009 12:36:26 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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