Posted on 04/10/2015 4:41:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“So, tell me why it is worth going in debt by tens of thousands of dollars to attend college again? “
A friend has just sent his boy to a ten month training school to be a diesel mechanic. The cost? $50,000.
This is why more and more entrepreneurs are drop outs.
Long ago there was a book published called “The Closing of the American Mind”. Most students on campus, with the assistance of the school administration, have closed and welded shut their mind. The new “right” is to now demand never even hear an opposing viewpoint or opinion from the established dogma of the Left. I’m reminded of the words spoken by Big Brother in the Apple 1984 ad...
“We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.”
The Army (Navy, Marines, Air Force) provides many vocational training schools.
Jesus. I sent myself to a job on the railroad when I was 18... learned diesel mechanics, steam fitting, construction, heavy equipment operation...all the way through high finance and public relations... and they paid ME... and I put myself through Engineering School with that money. I think the 4 year B.S.M.E. cost less than 50 grand. This was in the late ‘90s.
“The Army (Navy, Marines, Air Force) provides many vocational training schools.”
Ya know? I mentioned that. But they’re Obama supporters so he sneered at me.
How will these kids survive life?
Dang, you’re an unusual one from New Jersey, being a conservative, huh?! My background sounds similar to yours. Except I joined the Navy at 17..on subs, got out and worked for a few years...ended up with a contract job at an Arkansas nuclear plant documenting as-built piping systems. Saved my money and went to Univ. of TN, Knoxvile, BSME, on my own dime...I think it cost me around 40K all said and done.
Brains...
That’s crazy. Here in LA , technical schools charge $300 average on 6 months intensive school for plumbers and electricians. They keep the costs down because everything is subsidized (no wonder the city is broke)
“A friend has just sent his boy to a ten month training school to be a diesel mechanic. The cost? $50,000.”
Holy cow! When I went to vocational school (electronics) in the ‘80s, it cost $30/quarter plus books. I made a very good living with that education. My midlife crisis lured me into culinary school, which ran about $30K plus books for 18 months. The good news is your friend’s son will probably be imminently more employable than someone with a $240k liberal arts degree. Still be a while paying off those loans though.
Diaper call!
Last fall, the student newspaper staff at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia decided to change the publication’s name from The Bullet to The Blue and Gray Press on the grounds that the word “bullet” “propagated violence.”
I've seen presenters do that with their Power Point presentations, calling them "dot points" rather than "bullet points." Semantic foolishness, IMO...
The pampered, pudgy, whining adult-infants these schools are creating will be fine dining for the international Islamic coalition.
They will be the main course for someone's dinner.
After all, fatty cattle are raised for a reason.
Your work ethic will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Trust me, I know.
The students will be the commasars to make sure the edicts of the Comenturn are obeyed by the proteterate. Lots of jobs once the “Worker’s Paradise” is established. The slave camps will need guards—the education centers will need the right people to educate the young into the Progressive New Order. In this new Amerika—lots of folks going to die.
I’m thinking they may never make it out of their parents’ houses.
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