Killing off the professional class has always been the first step taken in any Marxist revolution...
Oh Bull Puckey. I hear that we are going to need lots of "green" installers who can screw solar panels down on the roof and attach a couple of wires. There's supposed to be infinite opportunity for green collar workers. A little humility and some re-education at the government training camps and they'll be ready to go win that $10/hour job!
This article is talking about a profession in which 25 year old fresh law school grads are pulling $150K+ per year here in Houston. Give me a break.
Watch MDs run away from the profession if socialized medicine takes hold. In Canada, doctors are at best, upper middle class, more like middle class.
Whether or not they can build roads, it would be a huge loss to the economy if large numbers of our country's most productive workers ended up doing that long-term. We don't need a "stimulus" that revolves around public works jobs, we need market-based reform that allows long-term economic growth so these high-paying jobs return.
I know a number of people who racked up a great deal of debt to go to law school, thinking that the law would be a good field to be in since their previous careers were wiped out. And now that they’re out of law school they cannot get jobs, and the loans are coming due, and . . .
The kicker here is that these are the very people who hosannahed the Messiah into Washington. These are his ever-loving base. If the liberal gentry see him as bringing ruin unto them he’s going to find himself mighty short of friends in the near future.
From my Univ. 15 years ago, approx. 40% went to law school, 40% went into banking, 10% into medicine. 10% went elsewhere. I saw the same ratio among many other well-known schools where I knew people.
The “professions” - particularly law, was a bubble waiting to burst.
A: A good start.
Government lawyers are likely to stay employed. Their numbers may even grow. Democrats always expand government when they destroy free enterprise and loot the private sector. Government lawyers may not get rich, but they do alright.
The article IS refreshing in that they state that these idiot lawyers who inhabit congress "have NO business sense nor experience."
Nam Vet
My children are learning at age 8 and 6 that university degrees mean nothing. They are being bathed in the ideals of entrepreneurial enterprise. They are learning that academia does not teach people how to think for themselves and pursue their own unique talents and passions. They have already earned more than $500 selling cookies, spiced cider and other goods at various fairs and parades in our area. They both already understand the concepts of product/labor costs, marginal profit and taxes. They scour circulars to obtain the cheapest ingredients to maximize their profits. In addition, my 8 year old son has already completed enough study to become Microsoft certified for Windows Server 2008. I had him come into my office and setup a Server, Exchange Server and SQL Server. He will become certified and earn $40/hr when his friends are doing paper routes on their bikes. My children will learn that they can channel their talents and passions into CASH, and that they don’t need to rely on anyone else to provide them a paycheck. I sincerely believe that this course of education is the best route to their success and happiness.
My children are learning at age 8 and 6 that university degrees mean nothing. They are being bathed in the ideals of entrepreneurial enterprise. They are learning that academia does not teach people how to think for themselves and pursue their own unique talents and passions. They have already earned more than $500 selling cookies, spiced cider and other goods at various fairs and parades in our area. They both already understand the concepts of product/labor costs, marginal profit and taxes. They scour circulars to obtain the cheapest ingredients to maximize their profits. In addition, my 8 year old son has already completed enough study to become Microsoft certified for Windows Server 2008. I had him come into my office and setup a Server, Exchange Server and SQL Server. He will become certified and earn $40/hr when his friends are doing paper routes on their bikes. My children will learn that they can channel their talents and passions into CASH, and that they don’t need to rely on anyone else to provide them a paycheck. I sincerely believe that this course of education is the best route to their success and happiness.
I wonder how many were Obama voters.
I wonder how many will be willing to do jobs that no American is willing to do, but will not be able to find work because an illeagal is taking that job.
“writers and editors who “can’t build roads,”
I hope the administration is forced to make these drones do some real work, like building roads. Would build character.
T”But there are no jobs for the professionals such as writers and editors who “can’t build roads,” according to the article.”
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Well, they can always get on as Walmart greeters... LOL...
[ ... not feeling too sorry for them... ]
Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes capitalism
and the American way of life from the totalitarian statism
that is swallowing the rest of the world.
All the other social groups- workers, farmers, professional
men, scientists, soldiers- exist under dictatorships, even
though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in
progressive self-destruction.
But there is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship.
Their place is taken by armed thugs: by bureaucrats and
commissars.
Businessmen are the symbol of a free society- the symbol
of America.
AYN RAND
I guess their liberal politics and their globull warming were more important than their jobs, security, and overall survival. Go figure. Lots of ‘em voted for this yahoo.
It's called 'gaming the system'. Or in a Darwinian sense, too perfect fit for a fragile environment.
I suppose lawyers could go back to religion where they can live off the work of others by 'reading the sacred babble' to us unwashed in local, state, and federal codes.( why do you think they call'm 'codes'?)
Crazy old world.
Been a long time since I drove a truck, but I haven't forgotten how.