Turns out Marco took the welders line from Santorum.
I knew when he said it that he had taken it from Santorum. Only problem, he didn’t get the facts straight. Santorum had it right. Rubio made an off the cuff elaboration that he hadn’t researched.
OK, those figures are from 2008, no doubt compiled with data compiled just before the recession. I’d like to look at them again in 2015.
And, keep in mind that those figures include those employed - not the people in Mom and Dad’s basement playing Xbox.
Too bad he didn’t take the line from a grammarian. If he had, he might have used the correct ‘fewre’ instead of ‘less’ which only applies to measured not counted things.
Most philosophy majors go into things like finance and management, usually with higher degrees.
The degree shows you can write and think.
I am not a Rubio fan, but his overall point was to call out the stigma that academia and the elitists have made against those who work in the trades. For decades, they have marketed (quite successfully until recently) that every high school senior must go to college and get a white collar job. That is part of the reason why so many illegals are in the construction industry. Where I live, in the suburbs just outside of NYC, I know many people who worked in the trades—plumbers, carpenters, electricians, auto mechanics, etc. Their children never wanted to do menial labor like their fathers did, so they went to college to take up stupid majors like sports management or international studies and have nothing but tens of thousands of dollars in debt for student loans. They then complain that they cannot find a job, but I never saw them throw a lawnmower in the back of a vehicle and go around cutting grass.
The illegal alien invasion problem is partly due to the laziness of the instant gratification generation. I am in no way for illegal immigration as I see first hand the financial impact it has on my state, but there are some illegals who are willing to work those menial jobs that the lazy American youth feel is beneath them.
I myself cleaned toilets in my first job. I hated it, but I liked earning money and busted my ass to put myself through school and get an education so that I would never be stuck cleaning toilets later on in life.
Also, to be a philosopher takes, at minimum, a 4 year bachelor’s degree followed by a Ph.D. which ordinarily takes 5 to 7 years, often followed by suboptimal teaching jobs.