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Nothing wrong with liberal arts degrees. I prefer educated bartenders.
The Jon Stewart show on May a few weeks ago they did a scared straight for prospective college students and brought in someone with $170,000 in loans and no job.
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The half-serious comedy program sat down with a half-dozen high school
seniors and introduced them to a man who tallied $170,000 in debt by earning a
degree in illustration, which he doesn't even use in his current job.
"I thought there must be a degree in bartending," the interviewer commented.
"No, that's called English literature," the counselor responded.
Fortunately, most still feel educating the population is an economic plus for our society.
Nothing wrong with educating people. But how is it good for America to generate a trillion dollars of student loan debt for kids that work at a cash register or serving food?
If you are going to work at Starbucks anyway, start at 18. By the time you are 22, you might be a supervisor, debt free.
It is not a right to chase your passion in education. If you are a trust fund baby and can go to college to play and become an enlightened hipster - go for it. But I am not interested as a taxpayer in helping you do that. Wanna become an electrical engineer? That's more interesting.
Nothing wrong with educating people. But how is it good for America to generate a trillion dollars of student loan debt for kids that work at a cash register or serving food?
If you are going to work at Starbucks anyway, start at 18. By the time you are 22, you might be a supervisor, debt free.
It is not a right to chase your passion in education. If you are a trust fund baby and can go to college to play and become an enlightened hipster - go for it. But I am not interested as a taxpayer in helping you do that. Wanna become an electrical engineer? That's more interesting.
Yeppers, the "world needs ditch diggers too", huh?
I am pretty sure you don't see the irony in the opinion you express.
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