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This is what college students are learning. She didn't just make this up. She's being taught this. The Democrat Party and the liberals who are permanently ensconced in our institutions of higher "learning" are the biggest promoters of this nonsense.
Myth: Most of the nations wealth is owned by 1% of the population, and they are hoarding it
. Truth: Wealth is created. There is no wealth "pie" that is finite. Wealthy people do not "hoard" their money; they invest it, which allows others to grow a business and create more wealth, no only for the investors, but for other people, and they create jobs and opportunity for people like this young lady to begin growing their own wealth. It's a long process, and it takes hard work and drive, but that is how wealth is created.
If I were this child's parents, I would pull her out of school so fast it would make her head spin, and tell her to get a job and work. Her formal education is done. The best place to learn about how the world works is not through "higher 'education'" but through life experience. These college kids are 'know nothings.' They have learned nothing but the rhetoric of the Left. "America is bad. The system is rigged (Elizabeth Warren). Rich people are greedy," etc., etc. But who's really greedy? They are those who think somebody else should pay for them.
We should have thousands of excess jobs if this is what investing does after the influx of trillions of dollars.
Where did that girl get the "1 in 2 families are threatened with poverty"?
She came across as a bit dim and naive. I wonder what her major is.
She made it up. Yeah, no kidding she is naive, but that's what she's being taught.
If these people think their education should be free, then they should ask their liberal professors to work for free. Those people are being paid way too much for the brainwashing of our youth, which is why education costs so much. Worse, they are required to regurgitate everything their professors tell them, in order to get a good grade. There is no freedom of thought, and these kids are not being taught how to think. They are being taught what to think.
Well, in any event, I don't want her or others to have a totally free system. I want that somewhere along the line, "she" is putting forth something in risk to her. If it is all free to them, how do I know they won't waste the money provided, especially when the going gets tough?
I MIGHT be willing to agree to something like this if there is the condition in there of "If you flunk out of school, if you don't maintain the right GPA, if don't complete your degree by a certain time, you then have to work in an industry that I need people in for X many years, so to pay me back."
I had that kind of sword hanging over my head in NROTC and believe me, it is quite the motivator to succeed.
Finally, one ought to realize that "free" may have some cost to it. A few years back, I heard a radio show (probably Sunday morning) of how at one school, the football scholarship required one to take a rather worthless major and how that was "wrong".
Well, the other side was pointed out. The scholarship givers are giving it in order to protect their investment. They want the scholarship holder to play for the college, maintain their grades with that easy degree, so they don't become ineligible or flunk out. If one wants a more serious degree, fine.......find someone else to pay for it, go to the school of your choice.
Similar thing here and sort of what I faced. The Navy, in my case, wanted people with engineering degrees. In order to have the scholarship, I had to go after an engineering degree.
So in "her" case, I say, "If we are going to pay for it, you have to get the kind of degree that is useful to us.".
She believes that stealing from those who have is how all free stuff should be paid for!
This is the mindset of today's liberals!
Like ObummerCare .. It's F-r-e-e-e doncha know!
Stealing from those who have little was the answer that wall street came up with when they wanted trillions of dollars to bail them out.
So you are saying its bad for those with little to want a little of that money back?
The problem with collecting a bunch of money from a lot of people and keeping it all in one place like Washington, DC is that greedy, connected people will be drawn to that big pile of money like flies to ****.
That`s why you don`t want to keep all that money in one place to begin with.
well hope she doesn't read the posts- these days young people can't handle bitter media and it haters- and go hang themselves or something tragic-- imagine 24- bullys every where you walk-
well hope she doesn't read the posts- these days young people can't handle bitter media and it haters- and go hang themselves or something tragic-- imagine 24- bullys every where you walk-
Well, maybe it could be nice if she did, to realize that when things are free in that they don't cost you dollars, they end up not being free in other ways, such as in choice.
We should have thousands of excess jobs if this is what investing does after the influx of trillions of dollars.
Where are they?
Well, I think you need to look at the specifics of where that money went. Who did it go to, and what did they do with it? Certainly Obama gave money to a lot of so-called "green" energy firms that were not sound investments in the first place, and many have since gone "belly up."
Millions were invested in the ridiculous "Cash for Clunkers" program, which resulted in a dearth of good used cars, pushing the prices of available used cars way up. That program was a failure.
When Obama bailed out GM, he violated the law, and those who had invested their hard earned money in GM got screwed. They should have been paid first.
There is nothing wrong with what I posted. That's how the system works. Private investors put their money into stocks which help a company grow. They do not "hoard" their money (which would be stupid ... you want your money to work for you). It is when the government gets involved that the system breaks down. This system has worked well for all of our history, which is how America became the wealthiest nation in the world with the highest standard of living. Look at the Reagan years, when the economy was booming. What changed? One thing that changed was Jimmy Carter's "chickens" coming home to roost (the CRA) which had been predicted and warned about for many years; the bad loans that were made and then bundled and sold to investors as "mortgage backed securities." They became worthless.
Well it isn't the parents who get a boarder after the "educated young person" can't get a job.
When you consider the UE rate of educated people, I don't see that as a great worry. Generally, education leads to good jobs which result in higher earnings for the employee, but mostly the employer and stock holder(think top 1%). So I say again, I wonder who gets the most financial benefit of a educated young person?
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