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The College Commencement Speech Every Graduate Needs To Hear

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Earlier this week, we brought you "A Cynical Look At Tim Cook's Commencement Speech," which outlined an LA Times piece that took aim at what one columnist suggested was a disingenuous (if standard) effort on the part of Apple's CEO when he spoke to students at George Washington. 

Today, we bring you a commencement speech for the real world.

"In effect, you are graduating with a mortgage but no house. And what did you get? A subprime education." 


"To those who majored in gender studies, film deconstruction, or any other of today's academic fads, to you I have this advice: when this commencement speech is over, do not bother looking for a job. Instead go straight to the unemployment office."

 

"Graduates, you have been saddled with debt and bad ideas. Good luck, you're going to need it."

 

 

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Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:21 | 6159996 cluelessminion
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*Yawn*

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:22 | 6159997 Headbanger
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Too late.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:25 | 6160014 DetectiveStern
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People who enjoyed a decent education ruining it for the next generations. Yet they STILL have the cheek to take taxes to fix problems they caused.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:40 | 6160036 ZerOhead
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Rest assured George Will's truthy "reporting" has been fully vetted by the CFR and Trilateral Commission (he is/was a member of both) before being broadcast. Come on George... why don't you just say it... "Death to America and full speed ahead to a Utopian NWO"

The Hegelian dialectic is always in play.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:51 | 6160124 Manthong
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Well, at least they didn’t have to work their way through and the parties were bitchin’.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:57 | 6160152 Stoploss
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They will all be dead by fifty any way.

Everything they put in their bodies destroys the filters.

The young people of today already look old when they're in their 20's.  More noticeable on the females. Crows feet at 24 lol...

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:14 | 6160218 Jack Burton
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That's a good point. I notice that myself. My parents generation the WWII generation, they also aged fast, a hard life, and lots of bad foods, smoking and cocktails after work. That lifestyle will age you like nobody's business!

Young folks are now fed with junk food from 4 years old. Often smoke at 16. Do drugs and drink heavily in their 20's. A ticket to early aging.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:46 | 6160340 Temporalist
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I found a speech similiarly appropriate:

ford mustang manufactured in china (wall street pro)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoAyBb8D5GU

 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 17:09 | 6160642 Save_America1st
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the end of college is way too late for these kids to receive a reality check.  Great statements and all by George Will...but this is the kinda talk these kids need when they're starting their freshman year of High Skrewel.

These kids are already coming out of fucked up High Skrewel programs indoctrinated by the same douchebag type of "teachers" they're going to have at the college level.  Need to completely overhaul the educational system and tell these lib-tard, Marxist, Common-Core puking, loser "teachers" to take a fucking hike.  Fire them all...they're the scum who really rot these kids brains now starting as early as fucking kindergarten. 

And it wouldn't hurt if more parents took part and stood up to the school systems and told them to fuck off too.  Then home school your kids even if they go to public school so that you can undo the brainwashing each night after the kids get home.

Fuck...just have them begin reading this book to start with.  Now here's some reality and history that will open their eyes to what this fucked up world is like:

The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

That book should be required reading for all kids from 7th grade on up.  Read that book with your kids and arm them with some serious knowledge and the critical thinking skills to deal w/ the many douchey shithead scum they will have to deal with for the rest of their lives. 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 08:33 | 6162406 Took Red Pill
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So this is just a commercial for Prager University?

"Prager University is not an accredited college. And it has no physical campus that pupils are required to visit to complete their coursework. Best of all, there’s no cost to attend" Five minute videos "Each seeks to enhance the student’s understanding and appreciation for the core ideas that support Western Civilization such as freedom, personal responsibility and capitalism.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/08/29/radio-host-dennis-prager-has-...

What BS! Why does ZH even post this crap? You have to wonder if its free, who's paying for it? 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:45 | 6160568 CarpetShag
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not to mention syphilis

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 07:26 | 6162292 Farqued Up
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That is caused by the metals, acids, aldehydes, alcohols, pigments, ad infinitum they paint on their faces daily that leaches out the natural sustenance from their skinny, wormy ass, starved, aspartame riddled bodies.

Meanwhile their skin is being bombarded by electromagnetic waves from Sol and leatherization, basal and squamous cell cancers are in their futures if they are pale faces like me. I think different forces are at work in melanoma, but I don't know Jack.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:21 | 6160245 seek
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It's also interesting the "complete" explanation for the tuition increase is due to federal student loans, according to Will.

In reality, most states had been subsidizing their state universities, and have been cutting the subsidies because they were spending that money elsewhere, or weren't bringing the money in due to a collapsing economy. These two reasons start revealing a lot of ugly truths -- that the economy hasn't improved (and likely never will) and that a larger and larger portion of property taxes meant to fund education are going to the pension funds of government-entitled working class (e.g. teachers, fire, police and local government workers.)

They'd much rather have people pissed off at weaker loan standards (who do you blame? anonymous fedgov wizards) than knowing that specific state teacher's unions and police unions have fucked over their kids.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:27 | 6160271 centerline
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Also, so many univesities developed rapidly.  Not just normal facilties.  We are talking about lazy rivers, swanky dorms, activity centers with rock climbing walls, etc.  Loans out the ass.  Just wait until the pull-back really starts.  The combination of loans and reductions in state funding are going to result in a seriously wicked negative feedback loop.  Crash and burn time, coming up in the next few years.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 17:56 | 6160791 azusgm
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Meanwhile, the State of Texas is about to build a gold vault so that UTIMCO (University of Texas Investment Management Company) and other state entities can repatriate our gold.

Mmm...I love the smell of sovreignty in the morning.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 18:49 | 6160987 patb
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Is that Sovereignity meaning that Texas won't be begging for FEMA dollars to clean up

from the rains of last week?

Please, Please, Please will Texas stop mooching?

 

 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 22:44 | 6161713 azusgm
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Mooching?

Would that include the shared benefit the other states receive every time we Texans spend our money to take an agency of the federal government to court or to join another state's suit and help argue a case?

Would that also include the 10's of millions of dollars of our own money that we have to spend dealing directly with border issues because the federal government refuses to enforce federal immigration law? Have you ever worked in an ER or labor & delivery unit at a hospital in Houston? If so, you've seen where millions upon millions more dollars go every year due to lack of border security. Do you pay property taxes in Texas to help fund our schools that are required to provide free public school education for every child who shows up? Sure, there are some federal funds involved (mostly Moochelle meals), but that money represents a small percentage of the aggregate cost of public K-12 education.

Federal tax receipts versus disbursments by state would not be the whole story. Not even close.

You're welcome.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:52 | 6160591 Panopticon 131
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You're one sagacious cat, ZerOhead.

If the tax cattle weren't so dumbed down, distracted, and bamboozled with propaganda they would know the education system is mostly a farce, hoop jumping to indoctrinate and create a caste system via the bestowing of 'credentials'.  

With our current level of technology it would be easy enough to create an open access system of higher education to foster a world class level of ongoing education for hundreds of millions if not billions of people.  Can't have that, the serfs would start to figure things out.  Why else was Gates oozing all over the Khan Academy? 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:34 | 6160298 Ghostmaker
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Will my proleterate you have been well educated. Enjoy living with much less.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:36 | 6160307 ejmoosa
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Perhaps you meant people who earned and paid for a decent education?

When you pay for something yourself, you are more likely to demand a quality outcome.

 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:23 | 6160007 SethDealer
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fag

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:14 | 6160222 Burt Gummer
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US Military Unveils Most Advanced Fighter Jet Known To Man - F35B Lightning II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMm1Uapzvdg

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:44 | 6160334 Bunga Bunga
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Your taxes on top of your student loan repayments. Good luck.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:52 | 6160359 Kirk2NCC1701
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In place of a HUD, the pilot wears an HMD (Helmet-Mounted Display) that projects HUD Imagery and Symbology to the inside of his Visor.  No matter where he turns his head or where he looks with his eyes, the HMD knows where his head is turned (due to Head Tracker in Cockpit), and the Eye Tracker (in his Helmet).

Thus, the Eye Tracker can project a high-resolution FOV (Field Of View) CGI, while the Background CHI can be composed of Low(er) Resolution Graphics and Symbology.

Depending on the country-specific SW that's loaded into the System, the Pilot can use the blinking of his Eyes and Voice as a Mouse -- to Select or Click on (fire at) Targets.  This is particularly useful in high-G turns/dogfights.  Israel's IDF have a different SW than does the US.  They know what we have in our SW, but we do not know what they have in theirs.

The HUD is a joint US-Israeli development, with a certain Iowa company (known for HUDs and Comm gear) being the US lead that developed it.  The Israelis (IDF) basically piggy-backed (via a back-door JV), to supervise and obtain key IP and tech.  If they're going to be treated like a 51st State, then it should be official, and not some Machiavellian cum Masonic scheme, for which the US Taxpayers are on the hook.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:31 | 6160510 inhibi
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Why do we need human pilots anymore? Especially in the cockpit?

 

We dont. More useless toys for the military. Let's be honest. The future wars will be held using long range ballistic systems, not some hovering jet with a pilot wearing Oculus head gear.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 17:02 | 6160627 Money Boo Boo
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had a fucking great education myself, two degrees and trained to think for myself by some really fucking smart dudes and dudettes, educated to be an insurrectionist against unjustified power that's what a real education is all about, it's out there and can be found........oh but one caveat is - NOT educated in the USSA.  That's the starting point!!!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:23 | 6160001 Ignatius
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"I have a dream... and in it I'm not wearing any pants."  --  A. Whitney Brown

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:32 | 6160012 Arius.
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George Will ???

 

what the word is coming into?

 

EDIT: i listened just out of curiosity; same line as Martin Armstrong .... some government genius, government lawyers out of control ... yeah right ... those bureacrats making a couple of hunderds thousand are completely out of control .... got it

 

NOW lets talk about FIFA ...

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:58 | 6160155 Blythes Master
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NOW lets talk about FIFA ...

Nah, let's talk about the not-for profit NFLNHLNBAMLB and their arm twisting extortion tactics to get new stadiums built on the tax donkeys' backs. (L.A. will NEVER have a team as long as local pols continue to capitulate to their demands.)

Fuck sports.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 21:29 | 6161504 roddy6667
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Sports are just a rehersal for war. Get the riff raff riled up about an opponent (any opponent).

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:01 | 6160169 NoDebt
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Don't give a shit whether George Will said it or George Carlin.  It needs to be said.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:24 | 6160013 p00k1e
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Who does Tim Cook hire? 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:27 | 6160025 Itchy and Scratchy
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'Change You Can Believe In!'

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:28 | 6160032 davidalan1
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I dont know whether to call Mr. Will a pompous ass or Brilliant- he always seems to straddle the fence

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:37 | 6160062 ZerOhead
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NWO shill

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:39 | 6160043 q99x2
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These are part of the 2 billion that will be asked by Google to merge with the machine in order to pay off their debts.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:33 | 6160046 Rusputin
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At the lower levels, education is a framework that individuals have to fill themselves to graduate, they attain whatever their own abilities allow; afterwards, you have a mortgage to pay for the privilage of your work, guided by a low cost educational template.

At the upper levels it is actual education; they teach you stuff and inspire thought you would never receive below, from the most talented academics available; afterwards you have a toolset that is invaluable in business or science, and Dad has already paid.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:42 | 6160079 ejmoosa
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Universities have been a staging area to hold the masses until the economy improved and they could be absorbed.

 

Unfortunately, it hasn't improved and they will only be absorbed at Sub-American Standard of Living levels.  And of course you will know an exception to this, but the proof lies everywhere you look and at the civil unrest we see just waiting to boil over into Main Street.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:10 | 6160204 p00k1e
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How much longer must we wait for the promise of civil unrest? 

 

Sigh.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:34 | 6160295 bbq on whitehou...
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3-5 years. The next election will really show the cracks as people stop careing about what they say or who hears it.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:40 | 6160324 ejmoosa
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As long as TPTB continue to douse them with benefits, it may be a while longer.  But once the benefits stop, no time at all.

 

 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:21 | 6160241 centerline
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Not just that.  It was the next bubble.  Credit creation at all costs.  Backdoor bailouts for deadbeats.  Loans for bums.  Etc.  The theft just keeps morphing and shifting.  And will continue to do so until some tipping point arrives and civil unrest explodes.  Underneath it all, it is suspension of consequences from top to bottom that is keeping this together.

Amazes me that anyone paying attention with at least a few functional brain cells can't see where, in general, this is all heading.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:40 | 6160068 Skateboarder
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DBS: Degree-Backed Security

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:46 | 6160102 reTARD
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It's also paper, but I heard they're going paperless soon. ;-)

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:56 | 6160378 Kirk2NCC1701
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Backed by Wall St 'Speech Code', that conforms to political and financial dogma and pieties.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:40 | 6160069 lasvegaspersona
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Is gender bending a social studies degree or is it PE?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:51 | 6160081 Itchy and Scratchy
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Tim Tim should have recommended the sheeple to set up bogus offshore domiciled business entities that don't need to repaytriate any tax payments & off-shore a majority of manufacturing & sell everyones personal & private information just like uber socially responsible, morally superior & self-righteous APPLE Inc does everyday!

 

'Don't shrink from risk .... shrink from paying your fair share of taxes!'

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 07:53 | 6162333 Farqued Up
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Sorry, Itchy, Uncle Sammy the Robber is a step ahead. They cleverly eliminated small competition that would bury the sluggish oligarch corps by delineating to a Controlled Foreign Corporation, so designated by any ONE shareholder that is a subject of Free Shit America owning 10% or greater of a C Corp, the taxes are due when earned, just as a subS corp.

They also have some vague shit known as sub-part F income that circles the wagons around the small fry farts like me. No deferral of taxes for CFCs. It would take a 20 lb Christmas ham with the bone removed to re-bushing my asshole, I've been fucked so much.

No company or individual should have to pay taxes on earned money outside FSA. I suppose Eritrea citizens should since they are the only ones besides FSAthat has to do so. They don't care, 35% of nothing = nothing.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:43 | 6160082 A_latvian
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Saw this in my youtube subscriptions last night.  Awesome job, Mr. Will.  Spot on.

Students of America: YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:43 | 6160088 reTARD
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Does the speech begin with "Fellow zombies..."?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:48 | 6160112 Skateboarder
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Y'all need to hear THIS killer commencement speech, from Metalocalypse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSuwnj_qo40

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:06 | 6160186 post turtle saver
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that is the true Zero Hedge commencement speech...

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:07 | 6160191 Uber Vandal
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If only Peter Steele would have been alive to deliver that line, it would have been TRULY epic.

 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:38 | 6160537 Bobbo
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"My fellow americans." 

same idea

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:53 | 6160135 BeaverCream
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I've been throwing around the idea of opening a private online university that focuses on the skills of "restaurant management" which is really just a term for "waiter".  It would be a 1 year degree in bartending, back of house, waiting tables, customer service, POS systems, etc.

I honestly think it would be a winner and would provide a legitimately useful degree for those kids that just wanna hang for a year or so after high school.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:01 | 6160167 willwork4food
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Go with it!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:13 | 6160217 p00k1e
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Good idea.  Offer life experience credits too.  Just make sure to have a onsite  'school loan’ specialist.

Take that money and open a chain of Indian run Payday Loan outlets off the Interstate. 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:47 | 6160347 European American
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"...a legitimately useful degree for those kids that just wanna hang for a year or so after high school."

How about hang for a year or so after college...kind of a "Masters" degree?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:30 | 6160508 Winston Churchill
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So you get a McDiploma with fries ?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:37 | 6160532 Bobbo
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Indeed!  There is more art and more science to that than people generally think.  But when you get dodo service, you know it right away, don't you.  Service is a legit industry that needs educated practitioners.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:47 | 6160580 CarpetShag
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do you have to be gay?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 17:15 | 6160663 mkhs
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There is no room for pessimists.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 14:54 | 6160141 foodstampbarry
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Relax, Obozo is gonna phone and pen these debts away, setting it up for 8 years of Hitlery. Count on it.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:01 | 6160165 Itchy and Scratchy
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The debt will come due .... the education will be forever worthless!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:34 | 6160523 Bobbo
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In retrospect, everything I learned in college was valuable, even the crap that I thought at the time was criminally incompetent.  It pays to learn, no matter what it is.  It's not only just good practice, but there are skills you aquire that help you see through lies and bullshit.  Granted, seeing through lies and bullshit is not a high paying industry--its more like a liability when it comes to actual employment.  But, it still helps if you can manage you own understancing of the world.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:05 | 6160183 observiate
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i paid all my stuff off within 2 years of graduation making an entry level salary. because Dave Ramsey's plan works yall. all i gotta worry 'bout now is all the fiat money i save hopefully not experiencing the fates that all fiat monies experience in the long run during my lfetime.  keeping my fingers crossed!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:07 | 6160187 Government need...
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How much down-payment credit can I receive in exchange for my 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:30 | 6160509 Bobbo
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$1.98

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:10 | 6160205 Mike Honcho
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He and Hilsenrath need to team up and do a road show.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:11 | 6160206 juicy_bananas
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Welcome to Costco, I love you.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:11 | 6160209 BeaverCream
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Wanna go to starbucks later?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:11 | 6160207 BeaverCream
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I have a friend who's daughter is looking at colleges. He's not real smart and I hate to say it but the apple didn't fall too far from the tree.  I told him he should discourage her from enrolling in college, what she should do is just go hang out on campus and party without paying for the classes.  If she wants to waste 4 years of her life partying why spend money to do it?  At least she/he won't be in debt for 30 years paying off the great time she had.

 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:57 | 6160379 post turtle saver
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sounds like the low cost MrS. degree

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:28 | 6160501 Bobbo
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In that much hated state of CA (other states as well, I presume), by state law, anyone can attend any state university or state college class -- except laboratory or psuchology classes -- without having to enroll.  All you have to do is politely ask the teacher if you can participate.  The teacher may require you to participate in discussions, written work, and examinations; and the teacher may ask you to leave if you do not or cannot adequately do so.  I know.  I attended UC Berkeley graduate school classes for three years like this, and got along quite well.  What I learned was better than any credential they offered, and got me very nice work at very nice pay. 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:12 | 6160213 centerline
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The modern college system just needs to be burned to the ground.  On current course is going to do it to itself anyhow.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:23 | 6160225 Itchy and Scratchy
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It's not just the inflated cost of useless self destructive visionary education. But the added cost of mental & psycological rehabilitation reassignment purging that needs to follow.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:17 | 6160229 ratpack1968
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Just as Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 prophesized modern times, I fear Mike Judge's account of the future in Idiocracy will prove equally prescient. We can only hope that Millenials recognize and reject the sham for what it is when they take their seats in positions of power.  FUCK YOU BABY BOOMERS AND FUCK ALL THE ENTITLEMENTS YOU'VE BESTOWED UPON YOURSELVES!! 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:23 | 6160472 Bobbo
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When you mention "all the entitlements you've bestowed upon yourselves," I assume you are referring to the things I have already paid for?  The stuff the government steal from me without even a thank you?  Entitled: I own it, it's mine, I made it, I put it there; then someone else took it?  Let's not point fingers at each other when we know who the perps really are.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:38 | 6160535 inhibi
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Yeah but lets be honest, the baby boomers (like Hillary) are in control of Wall Street right now and by god have they shafted the economy. Not trying to start an argument, but you cant really blame millenials for much. We are the generation you indoctrinated, advertised to death, sold fast food too, and ladened with debt.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:45 | 6160567 Bobbo
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There are more shafted baby boomers (I can personally attest) than there are people who did the shafting.  What do we want here, intergenerational war or truth and reconcilliation from the top down?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 17:49 | 6160760 Stumpy4516
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They try hard to point blame at the "baby boomers".  It officially started in 1913 and do not forget that.  The people in control of Wall Street is the Jmafia and their little soldiers.   There used to be an Italian mafia (kinda still is) but not all Italians were mafia.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:17 | 6160230 stateside
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College still works if you take a specialized field that is still somewhat in demand and not take basket weaving classes all day.  Daughter graduated with a 4 yr nursing degree at the University of Kentucky two years ago and makes $60,000/year at a city hospital.  College debt paid off by living at home for those 2 years after graduation now has a good income with no debt - you just have to be smart about it - which many aren't.

 

stateside

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:22 | 6160246 Itchy and Scratchy
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Who's gonna pay for the inflated cost of the healthcare?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:34 | 6160294 Almost Solvent
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Nurses making $60K!

 

On a side note, I've noticed the change in terminology for many jobs that make them sound more awesome.

 

Remember hospital orderlies? Nope, now we got us patient technicians! Still have to mop up the blood on the floor, though.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:26 | 6160492 ebear
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4 years to earn 60K/year?  I took a 5 week course to drive tractor-trailer and was earning more than that, and that was my plan-B.

Plan A was a degree in computer science.  Did that for a while, but found I'd rather work for myself than be surrounded by ultra-competitve geeks who'd work for peanuts just to get a foot in the door.  Let's not even talk about the people who hire them.

Not a put-down, you understand?  Just astonished at how skewed the risk/reward relationship is in higher education.

Anecdote:

Met a guy from Sacramento while on vacation.  He started as an aerospace engineer, then switched to medicine and became a family doctor.  (savings from his aerospace work paid for his degree)  That seemed like quite a leap to me, but his response was "well, it's all applied science - besides, I like to challenge myself, and aerospace wasn't doing it for me."  First person I ever met who understood what higher eduction is really about.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:27 | 6160267 Itchy and Scratchy
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The cost of education is nothing compared to the cost of deleting, erasing & purging all of the accumulated liberal-socialist dogma & clap trap that has infected their brains!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:34 | 6160293 bobdog54
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Found out my straight A's niece was taking 12 semester credits, cuz the university said anymore than that would be too much blah blah blah.  Being the good uncle and godfather, I called her and said "not happening" and explained that her uncle did 19-23 per semester (math, engineering, sciences and some BS courses, of course), worked 20 hours week at a power company, 8 hours a week teaching a lab and was a volunteer DJ for campus radio.  Oh, and my wife had a child the week before finals of a 23 credit semester.  Graduated with honors in 3-1/2 years with $2K of debt.  No monies received from mom and dad.

What George said is true but he didn't emphasize the personal responsibility issue and the work ethic issue enough.  He did a good job at saying that if you take a shit curriculm you'll get a shit job (and pay) though... 

All about the decisions YOU make, buckaroos.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:36 | 6160310 Dre4dwolf
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Its as typical event nowadays, that when college kids are graduating, their teachers (whom all drive 90,000$ sports cars) turn around and tell their students that their job prospects are hopeless and that the chances of them ever paying off their student debt (which went directly into buying the board members of the school they were attending all Lamborghinis) are going to be impossible to pay off.

College is mostly a scam nowadays, the days where a college degree meant something are gone, most people remove education from their Resumes because no one hires them due to them being "over-qualified".

I guess the general premise is that, if you have a degree in civil engineering and you cant get a job that you cant flip burgers. . . or you are smarter than the person employing you and they dont hire you for fear that you might take their job.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:40 | 6160321 devo
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Well the positive, is that unlike Obamacare and such, college is still voluntary. If you don't like the price, don't go. 90% of professions can be learned at a library, online, or through an apprentice.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:45 | 6160339 Bunga Bunga
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Owning a house or a car is voluntary too. If you don't like the price, don't do.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:49 | 6160352 devo
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That's correct.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:53 | 6160332 Itchy and Scratchy
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Kinka scarey to think tens of thousands of socially responsible liberal arts educated zombies with sub-par credit ratings are walking the streets!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:17 | 6160451 Bobbo
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Plus tens of thousands of socially irresponsible "other" educated zombies with sub-par credit ratings are walking around well armed spouting jingoistic conservatiism, too.   Many of them wear badges.

And then, there's everyone else.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:20 | 6160465 Itchy and Scratchy
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Your global warming nonsense will take care of those grogs!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:01 | 6160393 Kirk2NCC1701
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I particularly like the SPEECH CODE reference, which is common in all Public Schools and Fortune 500 Corporations.

Things that are 'APPROPRIATE' or 'INAPPROPRIATE'  (Behavior and Language) is drilled into staff and students, in a Top-Down approach... starting with a neo-Fascist "Allegiance" (to the State, via its symbology of 'The Flag'), and going from there.  Herr Goebbels would be so proud.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:07 | 6160411 Smiddywesson
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Don't be ridiculous. They don't have a speech code to "protect your tender sensibilities." They have a speech code to protect their monopoly on telling you what to think. THAT'S WHAT LIBERALS DO.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:14 | 6160442 Bobbo
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Hm.  Well, that's certainly what the OWNERS do.  Ownership of this kind predates liberals.  But, owhership of this kind hires them for the quality of their spin, internal and external.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:24 | 6160483 Itchy and Scratchy
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Do the taxpayers own anything ............. except the wonderful stimulative debt burden future generations will be buried under for centuries  the caring & sharing visionary liberal socialists spun for their friends & benefactors?

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:42 | 6160556 Bobbo
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Taxpayers own debt, just as you say.  The owners own us and pay no tax.  We are the collateral they pledge for interest on government bonds.  Better education, better assett.  This is why suicide is illegal--it reduces assetts.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:11 | 6160424 falak pema
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As the world of big sports comes apart at the seams in FIFA blow job baloney we hear this : 

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/03/mo-farah-training-camp-docu...

Nike Oregon training center a den of drug taking?

What next ! 

Are there any athletes in this world who aren't heading for the doctor's needle or for transgender ego trips?

(A bit like asking if there are any politicians who don't have dirty underwear or bankstas who don't wank themselves to sleep thinking tomorrow they will have made the billionaire club!)

 

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:36 | 6160428 reader2010
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"Serving the People", Mao teaches. People need sex dolls, lots and lots of them. You can't study how to design and make one at any American college or university. Instead, they teach you what to believe, what to think and how to behave. Pure bullshit! While there are more than ten colleges offering that major in your Communist China!

http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/06/intimate-photos-capture-the-relation...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722779/Japans-sex-doll-industry...

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:19 | 6160462 XRAYD
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Thank You George, one of your best.  Miss you on ABC!

 

Hopefully after you pay off your student loans with your gig at Fox News, we might see you again in the REAL "news" world too!

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:28 | 6160499 The Darwin Mode
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The rest of America -- "all of it" -- is a free speech zone? This is reality? When the hell did this happen? I can't find but about three people who know a goddamn thing about the Constitution, and one of them is a public policy professor. Political correctness pervades most any workspace in which a college graduate could expect to find employment, and students transitioning into the corporate and public sectors should fully expect to be right at home in this censorship culture.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:57 | 6160538 Jorgen
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Let's be the proverbial devil's advocate. It is not the government who created all these mortgage, student loans, etc. bubbles as George Will is trying so hard for us to believe but the central bankers. The politicians only followed their orders and George knows it damn well but for whatever reason does not call spade a spade.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 17:14 | 6160659 bobdog54
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No, let's really call a spade a spade - WE, you and me Jorgen, are allowing this to happen.  We can talk blame and nonsense all we want but it's all done with our "unwritten" permission...

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 19:14 | 6161079 scatha
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So again America is first. The country with highest level of education among, homeless, jobless and working poor.

But this was not original goal of US educational system neither was expansion and improvement of standard of living of middle class.

The true purpose of education system is neatly described at link below:

https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/education-blessings-o...

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!