Yes, exactly. And then, just imagine a world where college "education" is free, and EVERYONE has a degree. Socialism never lifts the standard of living for anyone. It merely makes is suck equally for everyone (except the elites, of course). And they call us idiots for supporting Trump. The level of idiocy is truly astonishing.
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Earl (08-21-2019)
Construction companies can't find good help these days, kids don't want to work. Even around here, where fracking has slowed way down, they can't find enough help to maintain the gas and oil wells drilled during the boom a few years ago. The guys that do those jobs now are forced to work 12 hour days, and are making beaucoup bucks. But again, that's too much like work for most. If I were younger, I'd jump on that shit in a heartbeat. Not that my work is a cake walk or anything, lol. My wife and I have both worked our asses off for literally decades.
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Earl (08-21-2019)
I forgot to add that grunt jobs that are still around don't often pay livable wages. The ideas of illegals taking away these jobs are naive. Those jobs only exist because they have willing cheap labor. They won't suddenly appear offering Americans the job at a better pay. If they had to pay more they'd say screw it and move on to mechanization.
Last edited by Jade Dragon; 08-20-2019 at 05:18 PM.
What I have noticed is that posters who undoubtedly never even went to college, are generally the ones claiming to personally know that colleges are supposedly these factories of forced political indoctrination. My theory is that they watched "Red Dawn" too many times, and have visions of communist re-education camps on the mind.
I spent a total of ten years plus attending or teaching at six different colleges and universities. And I literally cannot recall a single time professors were lecturing us on Marxist theory, or imploring us to vote for lefty Democrats in any way, shape, or form. . Mostly, we just spent our class time learning and talking about math, science, art history, music, engineering, statistics.
Almost invariably, they kept their personal opinions to themselves, though I do remember when the 1991 Gulf War broke out there was one professor who didn't actually say it, but one could tell he was utterly against waging war on Iraq.
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