Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
Are you thinking of going to college? If so, please consider that decision very carefully. You probably have lots of people telling you that an “education” is the key to your future and that you will never be able to get a “good job” unless you go to college. And it is true that those that go to college do earn more on average than those that do not. However, there is also a downside.
At most U.S. colleges, the quality of the education that you will receive is a joke, the goal of most colleges is to extract as much money from you and your parents as they possibly can, and there is a very good chance that there will not be a “good job” waiting for you once you graduate. And unless you have someone that is willing to pay your tuition bills, you will probably be facing a lifetime of crippling student loan debt payments once you get out into the real world. So is college a waste of time and money? In the end, it really pays to listen to both sides of the debate.
Personally, I spent eight years at U.S. public universities, and I really enjoyed those times.
But would I trade my degrees today for the time and money that I spent to get them?
Absolutely.
Right now, Americans owe more than a trillion dollars on their student loans, and more than 124 billion dollars of that total is more than 90 days delinquent.
It is a student loan debt bubble unlike anything that we have ever seen before, and now even those that make their living from this system are urging reform. For example, consider what a law professor at the University of Tennessee recently wrote for the Wall Street Journal…
In the field of higher education, reality is outrunning parody. A recent feature on the satire website the Onion proclaimed, “30-Year-Old Has Earned $11 More Than He Would Have Without College Education.” Allowing for tuition, interest on student loans, and four years of foregone income while in school, the fictional student “Patrick Moorhouse” wasn’t much better off. His years of stress and study, the article japed, “have been more or less a financial wash.”
“Patrick” shouldn’t feel too bad. Many college graduates would be happy to be $11 ahead instead of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, behind. The credit-driven higher education bubble of the past several decades has left legions of students deep in debt without improving their job prospects. To make college a good value again, today’s parents and students need to be skeptical, frugal and demanding.
When a lot of young Americans graduate from college and can’t find a decent job, they are told that if they really want to “be successful” that what they really need is a graduate degree.
That means more years of education, and in most cases, even more debt.
But by the time many of these young achievers get through college and graduate school, the debt loads can be absolutely overwhelming…
The typical debt load of borrowers leaving school with a master’s, medical, law or doctoral degree jumped an inflation-adjusted 43% between 2004 and 2012, according to a new report by the New America Foundation, a left-leaning Washington think tank. That translated into a median debt load—the point at which half of borrowers owed more and half owed less—of $57,600 in 2012.
The increases were sharper for those pursuing advanced degrees in the social sciences and humanities, versus professional degrees such as M.B.A.s or medical degrees that tend to yield greater long-term returns. The typical debt load of those earning a master’s in education showed some of the largest increases, rising 66% to $50,879. It climbed 54% to $58,539 for those earning a master of arts.
In particular, many are questioning the value of a law school education these days. Law schools are aggressively recruiting students even though they know that there are way, way too many lawyers already. There is no way that the legal field can produce enough jobs for the huge flood of new law school graduates that are hitting the streets each year.
The criticism has become so harsh that even mainstream news outlets are writing about this. For instance, the following comes from a recent CNN article…
For the past three years, the media has picked up the attacks with relish. The New York Times, in an article on a graduate with $250,000 in loans, put it this way: “Is Law School a Losing Game?” Referring to the graduate, the Times wrote, “His secret, if that’s the right word, is to pretty much ignore all the calls and letters that he receives every day from the dozen or so creditors now hounding him for cash,” writes the author. Or consider this blunt headline from a recent Business Insider article: “‘I Consider Law School A Waste Of My Life And An Extraordinary Waste Of Money.'” Even though the graduate profiled in the piece had a degree from a Top 20 law school, he’s now bitterly mired in debt. “Because I went to law school, I don’t see myself having a family, earning a comfortable wage, or having an enjoyable lifestyle,” he writes. “I wouldn’t wish my law school experience on my enemy.”
In America today, approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loan debt, and the average debt level has been steadily rising. In fact, one study found that “70 percent of the class of 2013 is graduating with college-related debt – averaging $35,200 – including federal, state and private loans, as well as debt owed to family and accumulated through credit cards.”
That would be bad enough if most of these students were getting decent jobs that enabled them to service that debt.
But unfortunately, that is often not the case. It has been estimated that about half of all recent college graduates are working jobs that do not even require a college degree.
Could you imagine that?
Could you imagine investing four or five years and tens of thousands of dollars in a college degree and then working a job that does not even require a degree?
And the really sick thing is that the quality of the education that most college students are receiving is quite pathetic.
Recently, a film crew went down to American University and asked students some really basic questions about our country. The results were absolutely stunning…
When asked if they could name a SINGLE U.S. senator, the students blanked. Also, very few knew that each state has two senators. The guesses were all over the map, with some crediting each state with twelve, thirteen, and five senators.
These are the leaders of tomorrow?
That is a frightening thought.
If parents only knew what their children were being taught at college, in most instances they would be absolutely horrified.
The following is a list of actual college courses that have been taught at U.S. colleges in recent years…
-“What If Harry Potter Is Real?”
-“Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame”
-“Philosophy And Star Trek”
-“Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond”
-“Learning From YouTube”
-“How To Watch Television”
-“Sport For The Spectator”
-“Oh, Look, a Chicken!”
That last one is my favorite.
The truth is that many of these colleges don’t really care if your sons and daughters learn much at all. They just want the money to keep rolling in.
And our college students are discovering that when they do graduate that they are woefully unprepared for life on the outside. In fact, one survey found that 70% of all college graduates wish that they had spent more time preparing for the “real world” while they were still in college.
In America today, there are more than 300,000 waitresses that have college degrees, and close to three out of every ten adults in the United States under the age of 35 are still living at home with Mom and Dad.
Our system of higher education is not working, and it is crippling an entire generation of Americans.
So what do you think?
Do you believe that college is a waste of time and money?
So college kids are uninterested in politics. See? There IS hope for this country.
Dutchman
Voting has been rendered useless because most of the people don’t know what they’re voting for.
Just some fuzzy idea like: everyone should have healthy food, or health care is a right. I’ve tried explaining to soo many people that a ‘right’ isn’t what someone else pays for.
Having no knowledge about the simple structure of the US government, the young people in the above video are without hope. They surely have no idea about Lois Learner and the IRS, nor Bengazi, nor the ACA, nor QE.
They’re are not going to gain awareness by going to college.
Allowing people like this to vote guarantees that we’re fucked!
They’re real notes written by parents in the Memphis school district.
Spellings have been left intact.
1. My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take PE today. Please execute him.
2. Please exkuce lisa for being absent she was sick and i had her shot.
3. Dear school: please ecsc’s john being absent on jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and also 33.
4. Please excuse gloria from jim today. She is administrating.
5. Please excuse roland from p.e. for a few days.
Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.
6. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.
7. Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.
8. Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins.
9. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side.
10. Please excuse ray friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
11. Please excuse Lesli from being absent yesterday..
She had the shits. (BEST ONE)
12. Please excuse tommy for being absent yesterday.
He had diarrhea, and his boots leak.
13. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
14. Please excuse jimmy for being. It was his father’s fault.
15. I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because i don’t know what size she wear.
16. Please excuse jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the sunday paper off the porch, and when we found itmonday. We thought it was sunday.
17.. Sally won’t be in school a week from friday. We have to attend her funeral.
18. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the marines.
19. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday.
He had a cold and could not breed well.
20. Please excuse mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps.
21. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.
22. Please excuse brenda. She has been sick and under the doctor.
23. Maryann was absent december 11-16, because she had a fever, sorethroat, headache and upset stomach.
Her sister was also sick, fever an sore throat,
her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over.
I wasn’t the best either, sore throat and fever.
There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night.
Now we know why parents are screaming for better education for our kids.
Hollow man
After the loan payment and take out the ruling class the average income is much closer to the working man. Lies lies lies. Education into dumassness for the most part. Learn how to build things. One of them there engineering degrees with a minor in programming best choice. Requires a lot of work though.
Admin, it is an honest question and I bet you want to know.
Tim.,are you going to get the book…THE PSYCHOLOGY OF KILLING ….written by a Lt .Col….I forgot his name but you can Google.You are going to need to be ready .I can tell you are a weak pussy boy and those little brown people you love so much are going to jump you.Then what ?
Tim
I looked the book up on Amazon.
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Lt. Col Dave Grossman
Mostly 5 star reviews but several reviewers said his research in the book was faulty.
Probably going to skip that one.
Maybe you should stick to pron and wondering if the stars have college degrees. BTW, do they? Did you complete your research project for the day?
“I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, ‘We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,’ and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.”
“I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.”
“I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.”
“I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”
Gwynth Paltrow – mother of the year
Gayle
This is a great example of why our nation will be changing soon into something unrecognizable to those of us over 40. The Millenials have been completely captured by the popular culture and its shallow morality and vapid intellectual milieu as well as a virtual world that offers whatever escape one prefers 24/7. I do not blame them for their stupidity about their government. No one, including their parents, has insisted they grasp the underpinnings of the American political and economic system, and thus the wildest dreams of the evil PTB have been realized. The Mils will see no reason to fight for the America that was, partly because they are already resigned to a future of limited opportunity. I wish someone could arouse their youthful energy towards some major civil disobedience, but I just don’t see it happening. They are passive.
Ms Freud and I are having a cup of tea. I read her that excuse-list. She spit out her tea on one … laughed her ass of at most of the others. One of the funniest posts ever. We’re still laughing.
Yup. That partially explains why the same cunts (Feinstein) and dicks (Reed) get elected over and over again.
How do Amerikan sheep vote? Pretty much ALL ‘murikans are SINGLE ISSUE voters;
—– Old people vote for whomever they think will keep Social Security afloat
—– Blacks vote for Givers of Free Shit
—– Joos vote for whomever will fuck up Amerika most
—– Fanatical Christians vote for the most Joo-Friendly candidate
—– Zara votes for Imadinnerjacket every election
—– Homos vote for whomever is a fan of the “rights” of dick-suckers
ONE issue …. what’s in it for me …. fuck America ….. did I mention, “What’s in it for me?”.
God you people are depressing .Have you lost all hope?
Tim ,you never answered the question .What are you going to do when you get jumped by those people of color ?How are you going to protect yourself and family?Sing we are the world…ha ha
NIck A
Thank your lucky stars Gwyn. Paltrow didn’t decide to follow a career in Medicine! At Intern / Resident, and certainly by Registrar / Advanced Trainee level you are looking at a solid 12 hours a day EVERY day you are rostered on, i.e. “gotta be FULLY awake otherwise things will be very bad!” Add in the “antisocial hours” element (and when you’re one of just a few Gen. Med. Reg’s on overnight, you soon find out that being “It” can be a much more intense learning experience than doing the daily Consult Rounds)!
Something to consider, isn’t it!!
Real Politik
God you people are depressing .Have you lost all hope? -bb
I’m pretty sure this is how the great deluge and Noahs ark began. But it wasn’t the people that lost hope.
Gayle, no it’s not. It’s not helping, but the reason the US will soon be unrecognizable is because of US capitulation of fiscal responsibility going back to the founding of the country in some regards, but primarily with the FRA of 1913, which wouldn’t have been possible without the War of Northern Agression and leading to the first Great Depression. POTUS’s have been assassinated over it.
The current system is statistically unsustainable in domestic terms. In global terms, SHTF is going to occur sooner, because the rest of the world is not going to submit to US hegemony, which is what is required for the US dollar to remain the world’s reserve currency. The US is powerful, but not all powerful. When the $ falls, TPTB are first and foremost concerned about maintaining status quo, hence the build up of a domestic police state and nationalization of the country’s health care system.
That the national education system is a failure is not the fault of the students. It’s their parents fault, who were the first generation plopped down in front of a TV set and subjected to mass media along the lines of North Korea or Nazi Germany.
Personal responsibility is one thing, but apparently the state exists to provide jobs to teachers and other government drones. That is what is going to change, or there will be a second civil war, unless we are to accept a totalitarian police state. There may not even be a shot fired when the $ crashes and interest rates wreck the economy overnight.
Will the sun come up in the morning? Of course, but the devil is still the god of this world. (2 Corinthians 4:4)
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Guest Post: Is College A Waste Of Time And Money?
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
Are you thinking of going to college? If so, please consider that decision very carefully. You probably have lots of people telling you that an “education” is the key to your future and that you will never be able to get a “good job” unless you go to college. And it is true that those that go to college do earn more on average than those that do not. However, there is also a downside.
At most U.S. colleges, the quality of the education that you will receive is a joke, the goal of most colleges is to extract as much money from you and your parents as they possibly can, and there is a very good chance that there will not be a “good job” waiting for you once you graduate. And unless you have someone that is willing to pay your tuition bills, you will probably be facing a lifetime of crippling student loan debt payments once you get out into the real world. So is college a waste of time and money? In the end, it really pays to listen to both sides of the debate.
Personally, I spent eight years at U.S. public universities, and I really enjoyed those times.
But would I trade my degrees today for the time and money that I spent to get them?
Absolutely.
Right now, Americans owe more than a trillion dollars on their student loans, and more than 124 billion dollars of that total is more than 90 days delinquent.
It is a student loan debt bubble unlike anything that we have ever seen before, and now even those that make their living from this system are urging reform. For example, consider what a law professor at the University of Tennessee recently wrote for the Wall Street Journal…
In the field of higher education, reality is outrunning parody. A recent feature on the satire website the Onion proclaimed, “30-Year-Old Has Earned $11 More Than He Would Have Without College Education.” Allowing for tuition, interest on student loans, and four years of foregone income while in school, the fictional student “Patrick Moorhouse” wasn’t much better off. His years of stress and study, the article japed, “have been more or less a financial wash.”
“Patrick” shouldn’t feel too bad. Many college graduates would be happy to be $11 ahead instead of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, behind. The credit-driven higher education bubble of the past several decades has left legions of students deep in debt without improving their job prospects. To make college a good value again, today’s parents and students need to be skeptical, frugal and demanding.
When a lot of young Americans graduate from college and can’t find a decent job, they are told that if they really want to “be successful” that what they really need is a graduate degree.
That means more years of education, and in most cases, even more debt.
But by the time many of these young achievers get through college and graduate school, the debt loads can be absolutely overwhelming…
The typical debt load of borrowers leaving school with a master’s, medical, law or doctoral degree jumped an inflation-adjusted 43% between 2004 and 2012, according to a new report by the New America Foundation, a left-leaning Washington think tank. That translated into a median debt load—the point at which half of borrowers owed more and half owed less—of $57,600 in 2012.
The increases were sharper for those pursuing advanced degrees in the social sciences and humanities, versus professional degrees such as M.B.A.s or medical degrees that tend to yield greater long-term returns. The typical debt load of those earning a master’s in education showed some of the largest increases, rising 66% to $50,879. It climbed 54% to $58,539 for those earning a master of arts.
In particular, many are questioning the value of a law school education these days. Law schools are aggressively recruiting students even though they know that there are way, way too many lawyers already. There is no way that the legal field can produce enough jobs for the huge flood of new law school graduates that are hitting the streets each year.
The criticism has become so harsh that even mainstream news outlets are writing about this. For instance, the following comes from a recent CNN article…
For the past three years, the media has picked up the attacks with relish. The New York Times, in an article on a graduate with $250,000 in loans, put it this way: “Is Law School a Losing Game?” Referring to the graduate, the Times wrote, “His secret, if that’s the right word, is to pretty much ignore all the calls and letters that he receives every day from the dozen or so creditors now hounding him for cash,” writes the author. Or consider this blunt headline from a recent Business Insider article: “‘I Consider Law School A Waste Of My Life And An Extraordinary Waste Of Money.'” Even though the graduate profiled in the piece had a degree from a Top 20 law school, he’s now bitterly mired in debt. “Because I went to law school, I don’t see myself having a family, earning a comfortable wage, or having an enjoyable lifestyle,” he writes. “I wouldn’t wish my law school experience on my enemy.”
In America today, approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loan debt, and the average debt level has been steadily rising. In fact, one study found that “70 percent of the class of 2013 is graduating with college-related debt – averaging $35,200 – including federal, state and private loans, as well as debt owed to family and accumulated through credit cards.”
That would be bad enough if most of these students were getting decent jobs that enabled them to service that debt.
But unfortunately, that is often not the case. It has been estimated that about half of all recent college graduates are working jobs that do not even require a college degree.
Could you imagine that?
Could you imagine investing four or five years and tens of thousands of dollars in a college degree and then working a job that does not even require a degree?
And the really sick thing is that the quality of the education that most college students are receiving is quite pathetic.
Recently, a film crew went down to American University and asked students some really basic questions about our country. The results were absolutely stunning…
When asked if they could name a SINGLE U.S. senator, the students blanked. Also, very few knew that each state has two senators. The guesses were all over the map, with some crediting each state with twelve, thirteen, and five senators.
These are the leaders of tomorrow?
That is a frightening thought.
If parents only knew what their children were being taught at college, in most instances they would be absolutely horrified.
The following is a list of actual college courses that have been taught at U.S. colleges in recent years…
-“What If Harry Potter Is Real?”
-“Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame”
-“Philosophy And Star Trek”
-“Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond”
-“Learning From YouTube”
-“How To Watch Television”
-“Sport For The Spectator”
-“Oh, Look, a Chicken!”
That last one is my favorite.
The truth is that many of these colleges don’t really care if your sons and daughters learn much at all. They just want the money to keep rolling in.
And our college students are discovering that when they do graduate that they are woefully unprepared for life on the outside. In fact, one survey found that 70% of all college graduates wish that they had spent more time preparing for the “real world” while they were still in college.
In America today, there are more than 300,000 waitresses that have college degrees, and close to three out of every ten adults in the United States under the age of 35 are still living at home with Mom and Dad.
Our system of higher education is not working, and it is crippling an entire generation of Americans.
So what do you think?
Do you believe that college is a waste of time and money?
And yet they can all vote.
I wonder how many pron stars have college degrees?Hey ,it’s an honest question.
I wonder how many TBP village idiots can spell porn?
bb has to spell porn as “pron” because he’s figured out how to outsmart his company’s filtering system.
What bb HAS NOT figured out is that there is a little known website called “Google” which knows the answer to everything.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+porn+stars+have+college+degrees&rlz=1C1KMZB_enUS575US575&oq=how+many+porn+stars+have+college+degrees&aqs=chrome..69i57.10898j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
Or, perhaps he DOES know, and just wants to talk about pron today. A Freudian slip, so to speak.
So college kids are uninterested in politics. See? There IS hope for this country.
Voting has been rendered useless because most of the people don’t know what they’re voting for.
Just some fuzzy idea like: everyone should have healthy food, or health care is a right. I’ve tried explaining to soo many people that a ‘right’ isn’t what someone else pays for.
Having no knowledge about the simple structure of the US government, the young people in the above video are without hope. They surely have no idea about Lois Learner and the IRS, nor Bengazi, nor the ACA, nor QE.
They’re are not going to gain awareness by going to college.
Allowing people like this to vote guarantees that we’re fucked!
NO PARENT LEFT BEHIND…
You cannot read these without laughing.
They’re real notes written by parents in the Memphis school district.
Spellings have been left intact.
1. My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take PE today. Please execute him.
2. Please exkuce lisa for being absent she was sick and i had her shot.
3. Dear school: please ecsc’s john being absent on jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and also 33.
4. Please excuse gloria from jim today. She is administrating.
5. Please excuse roland from p.e. for a few days.
Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.
6. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.
7. Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.
8. Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins.
9. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side.
10. Please excuse ray friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
11. Please excuse Lesli from being absent yesterday..
She had the shits. (BEST ONE)
12. Please excuse tommy for being absent yesterday.
He had diarrhea, and his boots leak.
13. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
14. Please excuse jimmy for being. It was his father’s fault.
15. I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because i don’t know what size she wear.
16. Please excuse jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the sunday paper off the porch, and when we found itmonday. We thought it was sunday.
17.. Sally won’t be in school a week from friday. We have to attend her funeral.
18. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the marines.
19. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday.
He had a cold and could not breed well.
20. Please excuse mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps.
21. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.
22. Please excuse brenda. She has been sick and under the doctor.
23. Maryann was absent december 11-16, because she had a fever, sorethroat, headache and upset stomach.
Her sister was also sick, fever an sore throat,
her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over.
I wasn’t the best either, sore throat and fever.
There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night.
Now we know why parents are screaming for better education for our kids.
After the loan payment and take out the ruling class the average income is much closer to the working man. Lies lies lies. Education into dumassness for the most part. Learn how to build things. One of them there engineering degrees with a minor in programming best choice. Requires a lot of work though.
Admin, it is an honest question and I bet you want to know.
Tim.,are you going to get the book…THE PSYCHOLOGY OF KILLING ….written by a Lt .Col….I forgot his name but you can Google.You are going to need to be ready .I can tell you are a weak pussy boy and those little brown people you love so much are going to jump you.Then what ?
I looked the book up on Amazon.
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Lt. Col Dave Grossman
Mostly 5 star reviews but several reviewers said his research in the book was faulty.
Probably going to skip that one.
Maybe you should stick to pron and wondering if the stars have college degrees. BTW, do they? Did you complete your research project for the day?
“I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, ‘We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,’ and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.”
“I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.”
“I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.”
“I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”
Gwynth Paltrow – mother of the year
This is a great example of why our nation will be changing soon into something unrecognizable to those of us over 40. The Millenials have been completely captured by the popular culture and its shallow morality and vapid intellectual milieu as well as a virtual world that offers whatever escape one prefers 24/7. I do not blame them for their stupidity about their government. No one, including their parents, has insisted they grasp the underpinnings of the American political and economic system, and thus the wildest dreams of the evil PTB have been realized. The Mils will see no reason to fight for the America that was, partly because they are already resigned to a future of limited opportunity. I wish someone could arouse their youthful energy towards some major civil disobedience, but I just don’t see it happening. They are passive.
Admin
Ms Freud and I are having a cup of tea. I read her that excuse-list. She spit out her tea on one … laughed her ass of at most of the others. One of the funniest posts ever. We’re still laughing.
“And yet they can all vote.” ————- card802
Yup. That partially explains why the same cunts (Feinstein) and dicks (Reed) get elected over and over again.
How do Amerikan sheep vote? Pretty much ALL ‘murikans are SINGLE ISSUE voters;
—– Old people vote for whomever they think will keep Social Security afloat
—– Blacks vote for Givers of Free Shit
—– Joos vote for whomever will fuck up Amerika most
—– Fanatical Christians vote for the most Joo-Friendly candidate
—– Zara votes for Imadinnerjacket every election
—– Homos vote for whomever is a fan of the “rights” of dick-suckers
ONE issue …. what’s in it for me …. fuck America ….. did I mention, “What’s in it for me?”.
God you people are depressing .Have you lost all hope?
Tim ,you never answered the question .What are you going to do when you get jumped by those people of color ?How are you going to protect yourself and family?Sing we are the world…ha ha
Thank your lucky stars Gwyn. Paltrow didn’t decide to follow a career in Medicine! At Intern / Resident, and certainly by Registrar / Advanced Trainee level you are looking at a solid 12 hours a day EVERY day you are rostered on, i.e. “gotta be FULLY awake otherwise things will be very bad!” Add in the “antisocial hours” element (and when you’re one of just a few Gen. Med. Reg’s on overnight, you soon find out that being “It” can be a much more intense learning experience than doing the daily Consult Rounds)!
Something to consider, isn’t it!!
God you people are depressing .Have you lost all hope? -bb
I’m pretty sure this is how the great deluge and Noahs ark began. But it wasn’t the people that lost hope.
Gayle, no it’s not. It’s not helping, but the reason the US will soon be unrecognizable is because of US capitulation of fiscal responsibility going back to the founding of the country in some regards, but primarily with the FRA of 1913, which wouldn’t have been possible without the War of Northern Agression and leading to the first Great Depression. POTUS’s have been assassinated over it.
The current system is statistically unsustainable in domestic terms. In global terms, SHTF is going to occur sooner, because the rest of the world is not going to submit to US hegemony, which is what is required for the US dollar to remain the world’s reserve currency. The US is powerful, but not all powerful. When the $ falls, TPTB are first and foremost concerned about maintaining status quo, hence the build up of a domestic police state and nationalization of the country’s health care system.
That the national education system is a failure is not the fault of the students. It’s their parents fault, who were the first generation plopped down in front of a TV set and subjected to mass media along the lines of North Korea or Nazi Germany.
Personal responsibility is one thing, but apparently the state exists to provide jobs to teachers and other government drones. That is what is going to change, or there will be a second civil war, unless we are to accept a totalitarian police state. There may not even be a shot fired when the $ crashes and interest rates wreck the economy overnight.
Will the sun come up in the morning? Of course, but the devil is still the god of this world. (2 Corinthians 4:4)