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As Student Loans Hit All Time Record, One High School Valedictorian "Gets It"
This it NOT what you would expect from a traditional valedictorian speech. Hopefully people, especially young people, are starting to wake up to just how corrupt and broken at its core, the US educational system is. Alas, tangentially, as the following data from Stone McCarthy indicates, there is little danger that the revelations captured in this video are anywhere near widespread, courtesy of record after record rise in the next big bubble: student loan debt, which is nothing but even more voluntary indentured servitude in hopes that the latest piece of paper certifying one is "smart" will make one's resume more attractive to potential employers. Alas, if they only knew...
Must watch:
And from SMRA:
In this morning's Chart of the Day, we reexamine the rising trend of student loans outstanding. Back in late June, we highlighted the steady increase of student loans that has occurred since January 2009. In the most recent release of the Fed's Consumer Credit Outstanding report, student loans outstanding increased $15.66 billion on a non-seasonally adjusted basis in July, the largest month over month increase since January. In turn, nonrevolving credit outstanding (seasonally adjusted) rose a whopping $15.4 billion, the largest monthly increase since November 2001.
We attribute the overall rise in student loans to a number of factors. However, we suspect the major reason is a struggling labor market and bleak outlook for jobs. As the economy continues to generate a less than ideal number of jobs, more people are heading back to school to enhance their education in order to make themselves more marketable to potential employers. The unemployment rate for people aged between 20 to 24 years was 24.5% in August, up from 23.1% in July. The unemployment rate for this population range averaged 15% from 2002 through the end of 2007. However, as the labor market continued to struggle, the unemployment rate for persons between 20 and 24 years of age rose to 25.7% in November 2009 and has remained elevated over the past two years. Not to mention that the unemployment rate for the civilian labor force has been above 9% since May 2009. Additionally we suspect the increased cost of tuition is forcing students to take out larger loans in order to pay for rising education costs.
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I know her! She owns silver. Astute observer this kid is!
Of course she gets it. She's not blonde.
Wow. She just owned that speech.
Sorry,
She is unemployable. She talks like a valley girl.
Shows how America is declining everywhere.
I'm two minutes into this.
Now while I find the accent and cadence off putting I cannot believe you come to the conclusion ...
I am thinking that the pea brain TV shows influence behaviour and language, more than educators. Does one need to go to finishing school? Where are the parents? Where are the teachers? No one cares? Manners don't matter anymore?
I guess that was the reason of the generalization. Think about the message and how powerful could have been if she gave the speech with good diction, color in her voice and up and down intonation as necessary. Then it would definitely go viral.
And to the matter of substance.
What did you think of the speech?
The American Public Fool System exists to produce two things: employess and soldiers!
And do you think that she enunciated the point well?
That, I dont care about!
Then why do you care about the American public school system?
What do you "care" about?
This kid is founding father material (in a female sense).
Don't stop there, the selfish boomers and most clueless gen-x ers have been powerless against the machine. Hopefully someone from gen-y will invent a corruption detection and obliteration machine
Pfft..the Gen Yers where I work are trying to get promoted more often than Gen Xers like myself. It's not even close. Gen Y reminds me of the Boomers.
the founding fathers denied her full citizen rights, so one would hope she would have helped right that wrong, maybe joining up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to fight for her equal say in the nation of her birth. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Sentiments
Hey CA.
That idea ignores the founding history of this nation and the era in which it arose. Women, like negroes, had their position in society, and it was all guided by aherence to Biblical principles. I avoid judging these things as it was what it was, and this is now.
Speaking of now, the FF actually gave us everything we needed to right all wrongs, but first you need to re-discover the power:
http://1215.org
I am Chumbawamba.
Thanks for the link!!
she could have got into the use of students as a credit farm...but i liked it.
"Credit Farm"
Simple phrase much truth.
I would use "Credit Plantation" gives it debt slave overtones.
She's definitely a more coherent speaker than Michelle Bachmann.
Elitest knee-jerk reaction. Style over substance, the true tragedy in this case. Your talking points are moot.
it already IS viral. I've seen this video a bunch of times before now.
it already IS viral. I've seen this video a bunch of times before now.
truly, you must be a douche
I have now seen the entire.
Admit it. You didn't watch it.
You let your prejudice rule your mind.
Shows how America is declining everywhere.
I watched it to the end. That is my opinion. What prejudice? I hate everyone equally/jk
She's a high school graduate. I'm pretty mean but I at least give a break to nervous high schoolers. She doesn't know if people are going to arrest her or shoot her or just what kind of stupid silly ass reaction she is going to get.
But she wears nearly the same robes as a judge. Everybody wears these robes on highschool and college graduation. It's because they are a small part of the judge system. People worry about judge dread but the real problem is judge idiot. And there's millions and million of judge idiots.
Excellent point Heph. I didn't even consider it, but in retrospect she had to be scared.
Ms, for some reason I was sure that you would show up somewhere in this thread.
Was that speech not magnificent?
She was great. See my reply to Rocky. I hope you are still teaching this year. Many of the people around me that teach in the school system, are not, or are under threat. Math is very much a fundamental need. But I have seen some crazy choices being made this year regarding who to cut. But yeah, if that is any one of our students, we are quite content.
Amazing courage in such a small package. With truth like that, and the strength to come to her realizations early, she will hopefully work within whatever system she chooses to effect change. I'd vote for her -- today.
As I go through the threads here I see so much judgement. She is a kid. I wonder if folks remember or have kids of their own to know "who" dug up the courage/inspiration/smarts to do this. No it is not perfect, but few of us would be. Even folks who get paid, we can find a lot of fault with them.
I'd vote for her, with the caveat that I would want to see who she had around her, supporting her. I think that is good advice for all of us. I have leadership roles in other arenas far from anything that looks like politics and economy. Who I have around me, advising me, matters.
Also think of your High School's Valedictorian. Was he or she the most social individual in the whole school, or someone who mainly spoke to teachers and a small group of friends? To think that this girl would have the speaking ability of the liars/BS artists who run our country is beyond dumb. She probably barely speaks to people her own age beyond her small group of friends. In my school there were the popular people (sheeple) then everyone else.
That being said, I can't believe she worked her ass off to become Valedictorian then gave the speech she gave. I'm left wondering if someone put her up to it.
Private student loans are worse than mortgage and payday loan lenders. The loans are guaranteed by the goverm't, the lenders have no incentive to loan responsibly (i.e. the mortgage mess), and the loan obligation is immune to bankruptcy (even a mortgage has that option). The terms and conditions they are extending loans to students is a horrible . . And unlike mortgages the borrower can not refinance the rate, the student is stuck with the variable rate until it is paid off. . .
Your predjudice against "Valley Girls".
Because they speak as they do what they have to say is not worth your consideration.
In short.
You are a snob.
Her speech was brave and I enjoyed it. I wished it was more elegant so that it can go viral as I eluded to earlier. Great message no question about it.
Cheers
Elegance indeed.
Viral?
She was addressing her peers and her educators.
She wasn't thinking about YouTube like you.
Maybe that's a "Valley Girl" thing.
If you think that there was no question of the greatness of the speech maybe you could "put elegance on it".
That might satisfy the YouTube snobs.
Dona K capitulated. There is honor in that.
In that case I withdraw.
Actually this video already went viral a little over a year ago when it first got posted to YouTube.
I didn't see it.
Maybe I don't have the virus.
hey - just cause you just saw it doesn't detract from the importance of hearing someone so young who is awake. Shit, I just saw the trololo vid a few weeks ago. We can't all troll all corners of web every waking moment
Hey: If you liked the Trololol vid as much as you should have, you should see Trololol "What he is REALLY saying!"
http://www.snotr.com/video/4276/What_Trololo_guy_is_really_singing
Perhaps Dona can get a copy of the speech, dress in a HS graduate robe and read the speech more "eloquently."
Don't forget the dunce cap.
If her voice makes her unemployable in America, then I guess having Lil Wayne on your iPod makes you President.
Her diction might make her unemployable in the US, but she'd get a job at a Bangalore call center anytime.
She does have another option: becoming a community organizer.
-1 on your cynicism. She's f'n 17 or 18. Get off your pessimistic high-horse and listen to WHAT she is saying. Not the 'accent' of this smart young woman.
did yer smart hubby tell you this Mrs. K? Tad bitchy today, aren't you. . .
Get off the high horse weak sauce.
Or... she's smart enough to dye her hair to not be blonde! Bravo to her, great speach which I also agree with. You don't need paper documents that yellow with time due to their sulfer content... it's a slow rot that loses its value as your "hard earned" education loses value with it.
Paper doesn't measure the value of gold and silver. It also doesn't measure one's wealth, education, integrity, or ability. You're free when you escape such systems.
What is this so-called 'speach' that you agree with?
Seems like Captain Benny dyes his hair blonde.
What is this so-called 'speach' that you agree with?
In case anyone wants the full text (or to drop her a line of support), the young lady can be found here:
http://americaviaerica.blogspot.com/p/speech.html
This is what real HOPE sounds like.
Hope and spare change she can believe in?
lol
word cloud, por favor.
My guess.... I,
Look at that, no teleprompter
Not to mention, she probably wrote that speech herself...
Braaaavo...my dumb ass didn't figure out what she already knows until about six months after I graduated (at the top of my class) and was out working in the real world. Hope she's not as pissed about it as long as I was paying back that 58K.
She's graduating from High School, not college.
i'm surprised they let her finish
I was thinking the same thing. I was watching the people sitting behind her, waiting for the fat guy to jump up and take the microphone away.
i have the over/under on the amount of list she is on at 12.5.....
Definitely. Wonder how many insults she got on the way out.
education( in its present form) is a psycological operation.....preparation for corporate slavery ......
Public education is a 'soft' lobotomy
And private education will be for the privileged few. As was said,
'I don't want a nation of critical thinkers, I want a nation of workers'.
J Rockefeller.
Ding, ding, ding we have a winner. The REAL source of problems in public education is the root goal that created it in the first place.
Pladizow said it first...
Indoctrination, simple as that.
In support of your comment: "Some Lessons from the Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto, found in "Everything You Know is Wrong", ISBN 978-1-56731-637-7, pgs 274-287
I dont understand these charts, student loan debt is close to $1 trillion.
Tyler please advise
I'll make it simple. Students today are royally fucked. As jobs for our graduates dwindle, their student loan debt is skyrocketing higher than it ever has been in the past. It's just another example of financial leeches trying to bleed the American dream (they've already taken down the dream of owning a home and now they're well on their way to taking down the dream of a college education).
Not to jump in the middle, but I think you misunderstood the post. He's saying the charts are wrong, student loan debt is actually much higher than those charts indicate.
UC expects a 16% increase in tuition costs the next 4 years. You know those hard working unskilled, unproductive, no value added liberal leaches need this raise of course? Lets see... what raw materials do teachers bring into the classroom that warrent such a rise in tuition rates? Ummmm,Ummmmm,Ummmm, aaaahhh Im too dumb to figure it out. What the fuck are the endowment funds supposed to be used for, naaa, not to help offset costs. Educators think my contributions should be used for hedge fund uses only of course, no benefits should go to the kids, hell there is only $524 BILLION in College endowments nationwide! By comparison ,Obama's jobs plan for the ENTIRE USSA IS $447 BILLION! THIS FUCKING COUNTRY IS OFF THE RAILS.
While this is problematic, I'd argue the education afforded by say UC Berkeley, or UCLA is still below fair market value. They've lagged for so long and are in a catch up phase.
Are jobs available? Depends on what you learn.
Definitely bleak from a macro perspective (we're in a depression), but silicon valley is suffering from worker shortages (to name a particular area that is not completely hopeless).
The CA education used to be free. Anything over "free" is going to be a sticker shock.
Silicon Valley has worker shortages? You, sir, are full of shit. Less than 40% of UC Berkeley's grads in Electrical and Computer Engineering can even get hired in the US tech sector.
Maybe I am slow but I just learned that student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Debtor’s prison will probably be buried on page 6,004 of the next Health Care Bill.
Her parents should be very proud.
she gots ballz!!!
Yeah, I was thinking she took the balls off the brass monkey.
LOL. She doesn't really believe what she's saying. In the end, she knows it's better for her if she's valedictorian than if she isn't, and better to do what she's told, than not. This situation may be absurd, but there are prizes for being the most absurd in your class. And they're nice.
Good speech, though.
Kinda agree even though I was a rebel all my life I still did what I was told when it would hurt my interests doing otherwise, that didn't stop me from 'exploiting' all my 'benefactors' till I needed them no more. You have to be smart as well as cunning to make it in life
Agreed. She wants to have her cake and eat it too. If she really believed what she was saying she would have dropped out of school.
Amazing. An 18 year old kid who had the balls to stand up in the most public forum available to her (one she earned, by the way) and call bullshit on the status quo, right to their fucking faces, and you want to piss on her effort.
I ask if you have ever stood up in a public forum and called bullshit on the status quo in similar fashion. If not, I invite you to kindly shut the fuck up. If so, my apologies.
That's what 18 year old kids do all the time asshole. Wake up.
As for calling bullshit on the status quo, I do it all the time. I have skewered every sacred cow there is so STFU.
First of all, my reply was to FischerBlack, not you. Second, I believe you, I really do. I bet you've got the videos to prove it, too, eh? I'm sure you'll provide the links so we can all enjoy your victories. Thanks in advance.
I don't post videos. But I've written lots of articles that have been published in newspapers and magazines. I was the first in my community to state openly that the Bush Administration and Israel were responsible for 9/11. I followed up with monthly film presentations on 9/11, the federal reserve, use of depleted uranium, etc. for the public with others. Also sponsored a presentation by Dr. David Ray Griffin which I helped pay for.
Also wrote and had published in a weekly magazine a feature article detailing the IQ differences of blacks and why that accounts for their lack of economic parity with whites - not racism. Also detailed the role of Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and the murder of 20 to 60 million Russians.
Confronted a black presenter during a conference on diversity that it was nothing more than cultural Marxism. Also told the largely hispanic audience that if people didn't want to learn English they should go home. Got into trouble back at work for this.
I've done this continuously throughout my life so I don't consider it any big deal. I'm sure this young girl was sincere in her belief that she had pursued something that turned out to not be exactly what she expected. But this was all in retrospect and I would wager that when she goes to college - which she will - her behavior won't change. People need to be honest about their motivations. She had already earned her reward - which was valedictorian. Then to prove her moral stature she dissed it. You can't have it both ways.
I'm as cynical as the next person, but I prefer to think that she she played the game by THEIR rules and beat them at their own game on their home fucking field.
She said that in the 10th grade an "avant garde" teacher helped enlighten her, which would have made her about 16. She was 18 when she made the speech, so she'd been somewhat enlightened for about 2 years. Maybe her motivation her senior year was to win the podium so she could speak her piece. At least, that's how I'm imagining it.
I view her efforts as good. Admirable. Naive, perhaps, but at 18 she's much further along than I was. She's smart. She's got balls. She's got spirit. She's got moxy. We need more like her. I see nothing wrong morally with what she did. She won the fucking podium and then had the balls to call bullshit on the system. What's not to like?
Do you have the link to these articles? I am curious, would love to read it
I find it interesting to see how so many people are so readily impressed by costless populism. Buffet is definitely on to something.
Pretty sure Loughner could use you as a cell mate...
Nice speach I hope it goes viral and gets 100 mil views
This student loan fiasco is ready to be exploited any day now. What will these young, unemployed, and angry people do for debt forgiveness? God help us.
DeeDubDo, they will grin and bear it.
It seems to be the pattern.
ORI
I'll tell you what they'll do.
They'll vote for Ogolfer when he promises to lighten the load off their backs.
Most of them voted for him last time too.
If only I were 80 years younger!
Now, now, don't exagerate. If you were 75 years younger, you would be on that like white on rice ;)
I know student loans are securitized and sold but I could never find them.
Do they sell them in an ETF or mutual fund?
They trade like bonds.. Asset backed securities.. Similiar to mortgage backed securities..
She is correct about her education and government brainwashing, but she is still naive. She confuses her government education and the corporate world. She isn't aware that the creation of the corporation and the pursuit of profits IS freedom. Successful businesses are not created by following the mechanical brainwashing techniques learned in school.
Her government education brainwashing is to make her a good taxpaying citizen who is incapable of challenging her government and the restrictions it places on her. Financial success is her ticket to freedom. Finanical freedom for the individual is NOT the goal of her brainwashing masters as she indicates.
No, you cannot have my gold. Find your own and fuck off.
Businesses profit from uncritical consumers. One of the primary goals of public schooling is to create these consumers. Visa/Mastercard doesn't want an educated populace any more than the government.
Of course they do. I'm not advocating for uneducated consumers. What I'm telling you is that financial freedom and the ability to create your own business is freedom. I didn't get rich using a damn thing learned from school. It all came with my own hard work and creativity.
I think her whole point is that our educational system pushes the vast majority of students away from the type of creative and self-empowering path that you describe. Large corporations that own the government don't want competition from small businesses. They want mindless workers and consumers. High student loan debt also makes business ownership an impossible dream for most (try getting a small business loan when you have six figures of student loan debt). If our educational system were revamped to encourage creativity and individuality, and if it were affordable, there would be more small business owners and self-made people who do not rely on government handouts and corporate paychecks.
That won't happen until government is out of the picture!
The public education system was infiltrated back in the 1870's by those who wished to dumb down the sheeple ... ie. "they" have been working at destroying enquiry and self-sufficiency for over 130 years! After 6 generations of such a concerted effort, all those in and around the system are incapable of even recognising where the problem lies, let alone making any meaningful change.
I-dog.... As you correctly point out, the government has been "infiltrated." The solution is to remove the infiltrators. We are our government. Those who infiltrate (the large corporations) need to be banished.
Milton Freidman's false theories of economics started infiltrating universities in the 1950's. The theories of economics are malleable and subject to change because of 'opinion' or political influence (usually the money power) which is all Freidman's theories were ... opinion. True science such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering are not 'infiltrated' except in the sense that certain company's have their products used in the academic world and therefore are carried out as 'experience' by the student. The science has not changed though and has to be understood.
A classic example of the enigma of education and value to society is someone named Lonnie Johnson who invented the super soaker squirt gun. He was a NASA engineer and I contend that he contributed more to society by creating a toy that children had fun with than anything he might have done at NASA. The benefit of the space program to our society is nebulous at best though some will heatedly disagree because of their intellectual curiosity, bringing a little joy to some kids is genuine
Nikola Tesla and others in the 1800's were able to spend their time experimenting, creating and truly inventing. Today's corporations are too greedy to enable creativity to exist or thrive because bean counters and greed mongers run the places, they just look for immediate ROI for anything they spend some money on. Creativity and invention will never thrive in such an environment.
Tang and Spam are products created by the NASA space program. These two products have benefited millions. That is a benefit of the space program that is not nebulous at best.
Spam has been around since the 1920's, Nikita Khrusheve mentions it by name in his biography as being important to the Soviet war effort (via lend lease) in WW2. But velcro is a product of the Nasa Space Program, and quite the beneficial product.
What you advocate is not in conflict with what she said, I don't think. Her complaint is that the educational system does not prepare young people to go out and create your own business. YOU made her point by saying "I didn't get rich using a damn thing learned from school. It all came with my own hard work and creativity." In fact, that is exactly her point.
When you fully awaken from your semi-slumber, review this particular post.
'holy shit' hasn't hit you yet.
What have you been smoking? Not much of what you wrote made any sense. Corporations, and Governments are the same. They have been for a long time. There is no more small, or medium size businesses that survive in this environment. If they are still around at the moment, they are heavily endebted and are on their way to bankruptcy.
Fachisim is running the show in America, and in Canada, as well as all the OECD countries. You would most likely know that considering you are probably sitting on the board of some corporation.
The results of 30 years of very expensive education "reform." Education reform is a scam.
She somehow managed to learn enough to recognize the problem.
Don't need government schooling to recognize the problem...
Government schooling prevents one from seeing the problem. This girl has obviously been taking drugs.
-Chumblez.
Yo cousin greetings from the dying empire and Aloha from Eugene. Don't you know Zerohedge will give you a bad attitude? Forget this babylon clot and Focus on the Fish.
I learned on my own to design electronic equipment when I was a musician. I had to go get an engineering degree to get a job as starving as a musician wasn't so much fun. The love of music never went away, the love of working in engineering did because the work environment in corporations is so constrained by small minded managers and greedy executives looking to line their pockets and control everything with bean counters and MBAs whom contribute little value.
Smart cookie, this girl. The figures on the total outstanding student loans are incorrect. The real figure is approaching or may have surpassed $1 trillion. It was $850 billion last year. I almost fell off the seat when I read that. The education factory is doing two things. Training the sheeple for manual and mental slavery while ensuring financial slavery even before the students graduate.
no2foreclosures ,
Nope, a lot more insidious than that.
Their is no bankruptcy allowable for student loans,period.
The .gub will issue Brown Shirts, and require manadatory public service/s for the reparation of the loans.
Here's the NEW Homeland Security Forces of the Future.
No pay, no choice.Suit up dude/ette's, we POWN you.
damn.....a female drifter..................few and far between, sorry to say.
Great Nations are built by Heroes like her. We all should be proud of her. There is still hope..
This is what I told my guidance counselor as I signed the paperwork to drop out of school, she had no idea wtf I was talking about.
That happens alot though.
I think she proves herself wrong by showing her independence in thinking which she apparently learnt in college. The truth is that statistically the level of unemployment among college educated is much lower than among general public. And nobody forces students loans upon anybody else. If you do not believe in college education, do not send your kids to colleges. Better stay in your caves and hoard your gold over there. Otherwise, just shut up...
"The truth is that statistically the level of unemployment among college educated is much lower than among general public."
I call bullshit. Where's the study? Let me guess... you're part of the failed education system?
See ,for example, http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/recession-college-graduates.html
It is a fact that unemployment level among graduates is much lower than among general population. Now, you people may junk my post as much as you want. You are just group of idiots living in your imaginative world. When your gold go to trash than you wake up to the harsh reality, I guess. Stupid idiots!
There is no reason for professors to be paid millions. That's the reason for the expense. The educational business learned their lesson from the housing industry. breakdown into monthly payments for years and years and everyone can afford a house, House prices and college education costs are not based on value. they are based on affordability.
A sports Mercedes Benz lease for 3 years was as low as $399 per month. College students were driving MB's and BMW's. Was that wise? Yes it was for the marketers and no it wasn't for the students.
Short sighted sheeple. Clever wall street wizards.
Break your bonds sink schools. You can study abroad for almost free. My cousin finished medical school in Romania. Yes in Romania. He was loading his suitcases with blue jeans and paying for college with the proceeds. Yes it was before the fall of the Berlin wall. these opportunities are still abundant in Italy, France, Germany and elsewhere. Language is only a one year affair.
Wake up America. If many students follow this path, watch college tuition fall to reasonable levels.
Professors are often paid less than high school teachers in the surrounding suburbs. The cost problem has more to do with infinitely expanding bureaucracy in the University.
You're right about going abroad. Is there still a nine month MD program in India? Club meds, here I come.
What professor are paid millions? What cave are you from? For your information: Professors in places like Switzerland, Netherlands, HK, Singapore are paid much higher than in US. The salaries in Europe , Japan, South Korea, Canada are similar to those in US. Who pays these salaries? The corresponding governments, i.e. taxpayers. As US taxpayer I hate the idea that the same system will be adopted in US. And Academic market is probably the most dynamic one. You slash the salaries here, people will move overseas. Best people are not going to work for peanuts. You want to kill the goose laying golden eggs, go ahead and do it. Destroy US educational system, definitely one of the best in the world.
You are a bunch of ignorant idiots over here.
A year or so ago, to settle an argument, I did a back of the envelope calculation on the value of college based on all the published figures for income, debt, etc.
What people forget when simply comparing incomes, is that if you can find a job out of HS that allows you to learn a skill, that is 4 years of income plus 4 years of experience that you are amassing, while a college student leaves after 4 years with a piece of paper and debt. If you set t=0 to that moment when you leave college, being the guy with no debt (and potentially some assets) turns out to be a pretty decent position.
I just looked around; nope, no cave walls. But I am stacking it higher... I see a Lexus and an AMG Mercedes. And I'll take that kinda cave anyday. :) College is valuable at the professional level (Engineer, Doctor, Scientist, etc...) but pretty useless for most the rest.
"College is valuable at the professional level (Engineer, Doctor, Scientist, etc...) but pretty useless for most the rest."
I would scratch engineering off that small list. It hasn't been practical to get an engineering degree for some time. Most entry level jobs are overseas.
I wouldn't... I can use that engineering degree and do just about anything I want (and have). Goes to mindset and how you bring your kids up. Sure Michael, an Engineering degree is a great degree, but don't count on a job being there because of that; be prepared to make one for yourself. Believe in yourself (it's what I teach, day in, day out).
Yup, with <40% employment rates of engineers from top schools like UC Berkeley and Cornell, and dismal salaries, its a real waste to get an engineering degree only to see the jobs going to foreigners.
Uh, dude, she's graduating high school, not college. Sounds to me like she's questioning the decision to go to college.
Yea, we're all special. But would she be giving the same speech if she didn't have those..... cankles? Just sayin......
My guess is that she will breed for intelligence in which case you wouldn't get the chance to touch, smell, taste, or even grovel before those "cankles." Win for you, win for her, win for the human race.
Gotta love Darwin.
She's going to breed with whoever breathes heavy and convinces her that he can't live without her. Do you seriously think nerds can do that convincingly? After all, she is a female, subject to the effects of Oxytocin. Do you think intellectual discussion will get the oxytocin, and its effects, flowing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
I mean, look at Michaele Salahi and her intellectual husband Tareq. Didn't do it for Michaele. Needed a journeyman. Needed a not nerd.
That was awesome - hope it goes viral and that she keeps talking to her peers - you go, girl! Also wondering if the principal had a heart attack that day. . .
major ass-pucker going on with the teachers sitting behind her...i love it.
Stone her!!!
i used to chuckle to myself, at people in the office who would put all of their toilet paper on the walls of their offices, nice and framed and shit. no amount of paper on the wall tells anyone anything really. we are all dumber than bags of rocks. only the smart ones know this and understand this. the best professors i ever had, only went by their first names and did not care if you called them doctor because they knew as well as anyone they don't know shit and all of us as human beings are stupid cows on the plantation. but sometimes cows stampede and kill their cowboy owners and trample them to death. may God in His infinte mercy allow this to happen and God bless dissent and free speech, something that is not tolerated on ron paul forums....
HPD:
I'm with you. "Board-Certified" "Certified ...<your 'profession' here>"
- Ned
{the "I-Love-Me" wall}
{{and don't forget that the various "Guilds" are there to restrict entry of "outsiders" who will lower lower the "going rate."}}
{{{and don't forget the "Davis-Bacon" and "prevailing wage" equivalent restrictions}}}
Smart young lady there. I would love to have seen the faces in the crowd. People usually act shocked when hearing the Truth spoken to them. Probably because it doesn't happen that often.
People usually furrow their brow and open their mouth like an orangutan when the truth is said. Then as the shock wears off they begin to boo and hiss (at least people don't throw poop, humans have evolved a little above the orangutan).
Probably 80% of the people in the crowd didn't understand the message.