It's about time people realized that America's colleges and universities are nothing more than big businesses. It's unconscionable that at four-year, public institutions tuition has jumped up 15 percent in the last two years -- even faster than the cost of health care! Too many people are going to college, receiving educations that are next to useless, while being brainwashed by left-leaning academics, and graduating into a deteriorating economy that offers them dim job prospects for paying off their onerous student loan debt.
Young people are not the only ones being ruthlessly exploited by these so-called "institutions of higher learning". The trend, these days, in universities, is towards the hiring of "adjunct" faculty, who are paid by the course (usually about $2500 per course) and who receive no benefits or tenure, and who do the actual grunt work of instruction. At the same time, these universities are paying "administrators" lavish salaries, usually well in excess of six figures. The reality is that today an individual with a PhD can make more money teaching in a public school than in a university.
A young person today would have better job prospects by attending a trade school and learning how to become a machinist or welder, than in running up a huge tab to receive a Bachelor's Degree in some useless field like "women's studies" or "art history"!
Obama's college con game...read below people.
mal
2012/08/20 11:39:00
Not to mention your debt... http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/08/16/mythbu...
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Maddog 2012/08/20 20:15:01
People need to realize college is not for everyone. I know it is not for me but my mother wants me to attend college anyways.
I want to be a journalist/author and I rather got to trade school because alot of newly college graduates haven't even found a job in this economy and can't ever find a job period.
College education is NOT always the road to success.
Is there a parking garage in Chicago that can hire an unemployed expert on luxury vacations?
still think he used this form of "education" to buy "HIS" shingles.
dumb as a piece of coal.
The Bottom line to all of the above is that inorder for Obama to enter the race for President, he had to have College Credentials, which he never earned but was provided by his Muslim Handilers that paid for his education and donated millions to all three Universities when they needed paper work from the Universities to get Obama excepted into the Presidential Race,! Therefore, all they did was donate more money to the Schools, who did their bidding, like producing a Fake Law Degree! Obama claims to have graduated Harvard, but there is no record in the yearbook of Obama attending harvard nor does Harvard have a copy of his tests or his Law Degree on file!!
Tehrefore, eveything a...
The Bottom line to all of the above is that inorder for Obama to enter the race for President, he had to have College Credentials, which he never earned but was provided by his Muslim Handilers that paid for his education and donated millions to all three Universities when they needed paper work from the Universities to get Obama excepted into the Presidential Race,! Therefore, all they did was donate more money to the Schools, who did their bidding, like producing a Fake Law Degree! Obama claims to have graduated Harvard, but there is no record in the yearbook of Obama attending harvard nor does Harvard have a copy of his tests or his Law Degree on file!!
Tehrefore, eveything about Obama's background and education was a lie bought by millions of dollars that was donated to all three schools inorder to get Obama into the race for President!
Foks without question, America is dealing with the biggest CON MAN THAT HAS EVER RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! EVERYTHING ABOUT OBAMA'S BACKGROUND IS A LIE!! Dr. Maggy
Young people are not the only ones being ruthlessly exploited by these so-called "institutions of higher learning". The trend, these days, in universities, is towards the hiring of "adjunct" faculty, who are paid by the course (usually about $2500 per course) and who receive no benefits or tenure, and who do the actual grunt work of instruction. At the same time, these universities are paying "administrators" lavish salaries, usually well in excess of six figures. The reality is that today an individual with a PhD can make more money teaching in a public school than in a university.
A young person today would have better job prospects by attending a trade school and learning how to become a machinist or welder, than in running up a huge tab to receive a Bachelor's Degree in some useless field like "women's studies" or "art history"!
I aspire to be a journalist and I rather attend trade school. I feel college is a waste of money and time these days.
I am glad you wrote this all down but it will be hard to convince my mother that I don't want to attend college.
I have a son, with a PhD and $100,000 in student loans, who cannot find a full-time job teaching in a university, due to the current trend in hiring adjunct (part-time) faculty. To say that he is bitter, would be a gross understatement.
P.S. I want to be a well known author and I write stories often. I want to make it big as an author and then go to trade school and become an journalist.
There is no point on sending your kid to college these days. I know this because I know this college student that can't find a job despite being well educated. College is not for everyone.
The standard operating procedure in socialized medicine is to promise the people "guaranteed access" to health care while making goddam certain that there aren't enough service providers available to deliver that care.
Take a long, hard look at Britain's National Health Service (remember all those bed-bouncing nurses parading bizarrely in the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics this year?) and Canada's "Dead Meat" medicare system.
Medical doctors are trained to consider themselves professionals with a duty to the individual patient, NOT to the "third party payors" who collect the health insurance premiums, skim their cream off the top, and grudgingly remit "reimbursements" to the physicians who actually do the work.
This is not something our Magical Mystery Mombasa Marxist and his "Liberal" fascist buddies want, and they're scheming to get the European model in place - a top-down politically micromanaged system - as a pork barrel they can exploit and a scheme of political favors they can dispense to the helpless, choice-less, gulled and diddled American citizen.
Not to mention the illegal aliens they're importing to fill their plantation.