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It’s a simple concept that’s been around since Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden:

That’s how all the stuff you have is paid for, even if you live in a socialist country.

Of course capitalism produces more bread, more efficiently, and there is more innovation and surplus than in socialist countries. Out of that surplus bread come things like the arts, entertainment, books- the things that add color to life.

Show me a country where people aren’t free to buy and sell bread and I’ll show you one that doesn’t respect freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom from search and seizure. Try defecating on a cop car in China and see how quickly you are Tiananmen Squared.

In a capitalist society a job is about more than just bread. It’s about creating other jobs, creating value for yourself and for- gasp!- shareholders. It’s about investing in yourself over the long-term; it’s about the freedom to become whatever you want to be. It’s about becoming a stakeholder in society.

And it’s the stakeholders of society who create demand for art history majors and novelists and stand-up comedians.

The more jobs that we have that create value- not just a time-serving paycheck- the more jobs we can create for those people who just want bread, who just want security.

Say for example, you’re a political activist who just finished up an election cycle and who also works as a freelance writer. Let’s say you previously had a professional career that makes you highly knowledgeable in a popular subject.

You can take a job with a high traffic website, and create a whole new channel for them in that subject. As the business grows, they can hire sales people to sell more ad space; companies can buy ads; and when they sell more products, those companies hire more people to service more business.

That, in a nutshell, is how half the jobs in the country are created- by the incremental success of small businesses, like our hypothetical website.

It starts with a company looking for one guy who wants a job that creates value for the company he works for and creates value for himself.

And if the government would stop putting obstacles in the path of small company growth that creates value jobs, we could get unemployment to 5 percent or less pretty quickly. If government would let the rest of us take the risk to innovate, we could provide the security that the rest of society craves.

Many of us are making half or less than we used to make. Some entrepreneurs I know haven’t gotten paid in two years or more, even though they’ve never missed a payroll for their employees.

Yes. Some people don’t have jobs. In fact about 11 percent of the workforce doesn’t.

But it’s not the fault of the bankers, or of Wall Street, that unemployment is so high, even though banks as institutions are hardly blameless.

It’s the nexus between government and business that is the real culprit here. The government tried to buy your vote and business was anxious to lend them the cash to do it.

The real advances in the quality of life in the last 100 years- the things that most define us- haven’t come from government. They have come from the private sector.

Air travel, mass communication, biotechnology, agriculture, energy development are all the product of private sector innovation in what is the most successful society in the history of mankind. There is no society that is more humane, more inclusive, more democratic, more caring for civil rights, more aligned with the happiness of its citizens than the United States of America.

If you want to blame a group as a class for where we are today, blame politicians at the federal and state level for messing with our freedom.

It’s the politicians who expanded the mortgage market that created the market mess we are in. They did it in order to buy your vote. It’s the politicians who spent a trillion dollars and created no jobs in order to buy your vote; it’s the politicians who took money from the very same financial institutions that they later bailed out in order to buy their money to buy your vote.

It’s the politicians who created an entitlement system that was unsustainable in order to buy your vote.

You remember those ads on the internet that told you money was available to go to school and get your degree? The ones that said: “Obama wants you to go back to school!”

It’s his fault that you have a degree in art history; a degree with such awful earning power that you can never earn back the money to pay the interest on the principal that you borrowed from the government because He wanted to buy your vote.

And your only hope is that there is another guy out there who is willing to take a risk on a job that can provide some extra value for us all; value that one day will pay your student loan.

The problem is that these young, spoiled pukes didn't ask the important question before selecting their major, "Will this degree give me marketable employment skills?"

They are looking for "a position", not a job.

Their sense of entitlement says that they spent four years in a prestigious university, and now deserve a position. "Atlas Shrugged" was right!

Work was not a curse from God, it was a gift and part of God’s perfect world. Adam had three jobs. One was physical, he tended the garden. The second was mental, he named the animals. The third was spiritual,he walked with God.

The problem is that these young, spoiled pukes didn't ask the important question before selecting their major, "Will this degree give me marketable employment skills?"

(aghast) You mean a degree in women's studies or queer studies won't get me a %150K a year job complete with my employer paying off my college loan and giving me a Mercedes?

Work per se was not the curse in our expulsion from Gan Eden, but work by necessity, painful work, harsh climate and environment, mundane work for survival was the punishment. The ‘fall’ meant that people were going to live far below their potential, and be subject to the adversities of the growing chaos, on a planet that had lost it's headship. This condition will be healed with the arrival of the Messiah. “For out of Tzion shall go forth the Torah, and the Word of HaShem from Jerusalem.”

My question: Who is the bigger SCAMMER, Bernie Maddof or the faculty of the University reaping countless thousands of dollars “teaching” in a field that has, from the beginning abolutely NO ECONOMIC FUTURE?
The streets are full of former students whining about their college loan debts, and their inability to find that well paying job. Hey kid, there NEVER was a job to be had in that “field of study”. You condemn those people of ABILITY while you immerse yourself in a crowd of professional whiners.
Tell me something, how do you regard the semi-literate MILLIONAIRE who just happens to be a professional athlete?
He/SHE you laud, while you scream at the person who could actually provide you with that sought after JOB, the one you are not qualified for.

Who is the bigger SCAMMER, Bernie Maddof or the faculty of the University reaping countless thousands of dollars “teaching” in a field that has, from the beginning abolutely NO ECONOMIC FUTURE?

I have been saying for years that college education today is an absolute rip-off. Ridiculously expensive, and as these useful idiots are now showing everyone, completely worthless. What really frightens me is how the left keeps beating the drum of "everyone DESERVES a college education"/"everyone should be able to get a college education", and therefore the government should take taxpayer's money to subsidize (or fund outright) the college education of anyone who wants it. Just like with single-payer health care, the result is ever increasing costs for an increasingly poor product, because there is no buyer feedback in the system (exactly as the liberal lefties in education like it).

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