Posted on 09/07/2010 9:37:32 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia
As college students prepare to enter a threadbare workforce, some are learning what outsiders have long suspected: Their professors were wrong. “The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama,” Kirk Johnson reports in The New York Times. “Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008.”
“Is the recession, which is hitting young people very hard, doing lasting or permanent damage to what looked like a good Democratic advantage with this age group?” Scott Keeter, of the Pew Research Center told Johnson. “The jury is still out.”
I dunno. “Juries” recently delivered pretty clear-cut verdicts in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia.
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Hope and Change. Young people voted themslves out of jobs and also helped multiple the national debt 3x. Nice job - idiots.
Wait till the monthly bills for those degrees start rolling in.
Obama: “I only promised to take you places. I never said they’d be places you’d like to go to.”
Soon the Dems won’t care. Collectivism will be so entrenched, votes won’t matter.
See Venezuela.
In my own defense, as a college student, I personally voted for Republicans. None of my classmates would listen to me.
“Generation Chump” had a head-on collision with reality.
I hope they enjoy that room down in Mom’s basement - they’ve earned it.
What's the old saying? A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet?
These kids are experiencing an economic mugging.
Well, that’s what is coming for me. My child will graduate Summa Cum Laude from a prestigious state university with a degree in music performance.
I’m proud of both those points since my musical talents are non-existant and my college GPA was mediocre. I never once tried to steer her into some other degree program.
Yet, what does one do with that degree in this economy?
Get a job TEACHING music at a school somewhere, and get weekend PAID gigs playing in bands at churches or wherever. It may not be an extravagant living, but there are jobs for music students - especially if they are talented and motivated.
Yes, she has indicated that she will blanket the area schools with her CV and take on students. Weekend gigs can be far and few between for a (french) horn player.
She could do studio stuff but, well, you “gotta know somebody”.
“two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama,”
Seemed to swoon? Those little academidiots-with-Daddy’s-credit-card were mentally masturbating as they air-fellated his image. They were grovelling, rhapsodizing, and self-flagellating. Two-legged-mares-in-season, those college kiddies were.
If she’s a french horn player she should get involved with the local symphony wherever it is. That will get her contacts both for studio work and for other paying gigs. You might be surprised how many churches have an orchestra for their Sunday services, and some of the bigger churches pay union scale for the musicians.
Problem with the chuch gigs is she wouold rather be in her home church with us. That, and she is no fan of “contemporary” styles in church.
I certainly understand that.
Back when we had a draft, it was only fair to let 18 year olds vote, so the Constitution was amended. In the interim, we got rid of the draft and the education system has seen to it that young people are even less intelligent and informed than a generation ago. Today, 0bama is the ultimate argument against letting 18 year olds vote.
Well, that’s what is coming for me. My child will graduate Summa Cum Laude from a prestigious state university with a degree in music performance.
Yet, what does one do with that degree in this economy?
He should go into computer programming. There is a very high correlation between musical skills and computer programming skills. In both you are working with a highly structured language, yet at the same time you are expected to be creative and even at times improvise within that structure.
Back in the ‘50s and ‘60s (before computer science degrees were so widespread) IBM heavily recruited two types of college gradueates to fill their programming needs: math majors and music majors.
Find the right IT manager, and they’ll give him a shot.
“two years ago, when a generation of young peopleseemedwere brainwashed to swoon over Barack Obama,”
There, fixed it. I wonder if they will get that they were had by the liberal academics they worshiped at the feet of for all those years?
RE yours at #9
My sympathies. Hopefully she will soon find her niche.
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