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MJJean
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Quite a few countries have free public universities and also have private universities for those with the funding to attend or ability to get scholarships. I think that is something we need here. Badly. An educated public is good for the country as a whole and too many here cannot afford to get an education. Of course, I am not just referring to those who want to go into white collar work, but also those that would do the decently paid blue collar jobs that happen to require a certificate and/or Associates degree.
Free 2 year degrees mean people can work without student loan debt and can pump money into the tax coffers while pumping money into the economy and can pursue advanced degrees, if they wish, while paying for it themselves and supporting themselves and their families.
How do people with education end up working ****** jobs? Easy. Someone publishes a hot jobs list, everyone who goes to some kind of college or university gets a degree to do that job, and by the time they all graduate the market is flooded. Add in companies with indefinite hiring freezes, local, state, and federal job cuts, and business going under. Then add retired people who lost almost everything when the economy tanked and who had to go back to work.
You not only have too many freshly minted workers, you also have a glut of experienced workers competing for the same small number of jobs. Now the newly minted people have to take a **** job that barely pays for the basics and have a boatload of student debt.
Also,if we can bail out Wall Street and the Big 3 we can certainly bail out people who went to college, as the public school system and their parents told them to do, in good faith only to find that the system let them down ( see Wall Street and the Big 3’s ridiculously criminally negligent or just straight criminal behavior and the ripple effect caused).
One of my close friends happens to have a PhD in bio-chem. He wanted to do r and d for a drug company and maybe help people while making a decent living. He worked for different prestigious universities, a pharmaceutical company, and on a government research contract. So, he has real-world experience. He’s teaching high school in the ghetto for less money than my truck driver husband makes. He got the teaching job because he had been unemployed for 2 years, living off savings, and was desperate. And he spent those 2 years papering the world with resumes.
Friends brothers are a physicist and an astronomer. They both had to go overseas to find jobs in their field. Friend could have gone to Germany to work, but he is married and his wife is unwilling to leave the country.
Just for flavor, the friends wife has a Bachelors (business) and is an Iraq War vet. The best job she could get upon being discharged (honorably) is working as a supermarket cashier.
There’s a reason why that CEO ya’ll have been discussing got where he is. Yes, ambition and discipline played a role, but so did luck. There are a lot of ambitious and hard working people out there with discipline to spare. The problem is that only a small fraction will ever be able to “hit it big”. There simply aren’t enough of those positions to go around. We can’t all be Chief’s. The large majority are going to be Indians.
She already has an undergraduate degree. This university, a Catholic one, has a special program for people like her.