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Santorum: Not every kid has to go to college
Hotair ^ | 01/08/2012 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 01/08/2012 9:59:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/08/2012 9:59:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Just think if bill gates had applied himself and earned advanced degrees he might have made something of himself.


2 posted on 01/08/2012 10:07:17 AM PST by org.whodat (What is the difference in Newt's, Perry's and Willard's positions on Amnesty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It happens to be the truth. At this point, college is a questionable decision at best for many subjects. Its like saying that every American must own a home regardless of whether they can afford one or not.


3 posted on 01/08/2012 10:07:25 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m a college professor. Even though it benefits my profession to have all our classes filled, I can tell you that between 1/3 - 1/2 of the students in college now are just wasting there time. About 1/3 of the students belong there (e.g., will graduate in their chosen major). The middle 1/3 have the capability (to excel) but don’t take it seriously enough. The bottom 1/3 should be doing something else entirely. This is a tremendous misallocation of resouces. Probem is that almost no one has the courage [anymore] to have a frank conversation with these kids about their future.


4 posted on 01/08/2012 10:12:26 AM PST by rbg81
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm going to do a terrible job expressing this, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway --

In the global marketplace, American workers living in nice suburbs are trying to compete with poor, short-lived Chinese peasants living next to polluted rivers. Guess what? The Chinese will work for less. This is part of why US unemployment and manufacturing are in rough shape. Our tax policies and union policies are part of the problem, but the bottomline is that we cannot compete internationally unless we want to live like peasants and put up with scandalous amounts of pollution. What to do?

But the flip side is that we produce lots of food, and we could produce vast amounts of energy. In certain respects, we live in a post-scarcity society. Americans do not need to be poor. With some sort of flat tax scheme, in which everyone is guaranteed a basic national income (yeah, I know, this veers toward Socialism) and pays no taxes on the first $20,000 or so, then we could eliminate poverty in America.

What we need to grasp is that not EVERY American can live in a 3000 sq ft house on the beach, with occasional vacation to Switzerland for skiing. We need to accept the fact that auto mechanics, plumbers, and carpenters have good lives. There is nothing wrong with just building (through sweat) a strong national economy.

Nation Building begins at home.

5 posted on 01/08/2012 10:13:13 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How true


6 posted on 01/08/2012 10:14:03 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: rbg81

And, yes, I realize its “their time”, not “there time” and “problem” vs. “probem”. That’s why I teach computer science vs. English. I’m used to the compiler finding my syntax mistakes.


7 posted on 01/08/2012 10:16:13 AM PST by rbg81
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To: SeekAndFind

In the famous words of Judge Smails: “Well, the world needs ditch-diggers, too.”


8 posted on 01/08/2012 10:19:16 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think he’s right. When I got my degree in 1966 only 6.5% of men and women over the age of 25 had a bachelor’s degree. Now, it’s in the high 20s and there’s high unemployment.

But back in 1966 people had jobs and there was low unemployment. Obviously, attending college was not a big thing then and it shouldn’t be now.

If only the Supreme Court had not decided Griggs v. Duke Power Company (1971) the way it did....


9 posted on 01/08/2012 10:19:48 AM PST by OldPossum
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To: SeekAndFind

If Obama had any brains he would realize that not everyone is made from the same mold.


10 posted on 01/08/2012 10:20:03 AM PST by syriacus (Romney is #ObamaLite.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
We need to accept the fact that auto mechanics, plumbers, and carpenters have good lives. There is nothing wrong with just building (through sweat) a strong national economy.

I save this thread for precisely that type of correct comment. Be sure to take a half hour to watch the video. He's one smart dude (because he's apparently continuing to learn)

Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration
11 posted on 01/08/2012 10:20:07 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Pretty good, pretty good.


12 posted on 01/08/2012 10:23:02 AM PST by moehoward
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To: IYAS9YAS

He also said “Winning the Caddy tournament might look pretty good on a young man’s (college) application.”


13 posted on 01/08/2012 10:26:28 AM PST by moehoward
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I’m going to do a terrible job expressing this, but I’m going to give it a shot anyway —”

I think you did a pretty good job.

Our Government policies should be aimed at promoting a healthy economy and Opportunity for all. The best thing for workers and employees is a healthy economy. If an employers doesn’t pay fair or is mean to the employees then they will suffer as the good workers will leave.

We used to have something approximating that in the past but that is not our current reality.

Our defacto policies encourage business to migrate production out of the country (high taxes and regulation) and make the products overseas and sell the finished products here. (Because their are no downsides to this, taxes, tariffs, etc).

In the meantime were bringing in tens of millions of immigrants (legal and illegal) to compete for the remaining jobs...

Also while refusing to develop our energy resources.. Another 500 Billion/yr or so leaving the country and employing others but not Americans.

I don’t know how to fix this as long as our leaders are insulated from the pain their policies are causing. Heck their not only insulated from the pain but they benefit from these policies.


14 posted on 01/08/2012 10:28:02 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: IYAS9YAS
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can’t be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.


Attributed to MLK but I think its from before his time. In any case its a wonderful sentiment.
15 posted on 01/08/2012 10:32:51 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The country would probably be better off if half of the kids in high school weren’t there.


16 posted on 01/08/2012 10:46:01 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Antoninus

(((((PING)))))


17 posted on 01/08/2012 11:00:15 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: cripplecreek

The works of another great uneducated man, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov


18 posted on 01/08/2012 11:01:42 AM PST by org.whodat (What is the difference in Newt's, Perry's and Willard's positions on Amnesty.)
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To: rbg81

I can tell you that between 1/3 - 1/2 of the students in college now are just wasting there time
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hahaha

I hope you aren’t an English teacher.


19 posted on 01/08/2012 11:03:01 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: cripplecreek

Exactly right!


20 posted on 01/08/2012 11:03:55 AM PST by rintense
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