Anonymous #21 said:

Anonymous #4 said:

If spending money for education was the solution, this country would have the smartest and brightest, but we don't.
 

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We don't?  Harvard, Yale, Hopkins, Cornell.  Have you heard of these places?  Some of the best educational institutions in the world are here.  Why do you think so many foreign students come here?  It's not because the education sucks.

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Anonymous #9 said:

Anonymous #1 said:

Fuck minimum wage

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Let the market decide!  What would that look like?  Millions of people currently earning minimum wage and not making ends meet will become millions of people even worse off.  Will corporations and businesses pass their savings on to the consumer in the form of lower priced goods and services?  Or will money get further funneled into the hands of the wealthy few and make the rich richer and the poor poorer?

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Anonymous #9 said:

Just because those DC schools might have temporarily received increased funding doesn't mean that they were ever equal to the affluent schools.  You can find numerous studies where specialized schools are opened in distraught areas and are properly funded and staffed.  The results are powerful and students learn. 

There's an ongoing problem with educational funding that severely limits what poor urban schools receive compared to the rich suburbs and the defeatist idea that believes "no matter how much they spend they could not change" is bullshit.  Fund the rich white schools at the same level as a poor urban school and see how white achievement plummets.  Take away the computers, the science labs, the test prep, the experienced teachers, the clean environment, the army of support staff and see how it goes.  Put them in dilapidated buildings where their classrooms are storage closets and give them rotating substitute teachers and see how your idea of community helps them succeed.

I shouldn't have to explain that poor cities deserve the same education as kids in the rich suburbs but conservatism seems to be antagonistic to this idea.

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Anonymous #1 said:

It sounds like they want to turn the US into that kind of government, so why don't they just move there if it's so perfect?

As a libertarian I'm tired of big government and taxes

dont tread on me

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Anonymous #1 said:

we aren't living in Camelot circa 1000AD. We are in the USA. Poor? Join the military to get some training. Maybe, oh i dont know, DONT FUCKING DROP OUT OF HIGHSCHOOL. Maybe, you know, save some money instead of buying the latest jordans. and dont have kids when you can't afford them.

There are plenty of people in this country with rags to riches stories. stop making excuses. you are the only one holding yourself back.

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Anonymous #9 said:

What about college graduates with advanced degrees who have their jobs outsourced?  There are plenty of them.  Don't you see that globalization first started to outsource factory labor jobs, but who cared because they had no college so it was their fault.  Now India and China are churning out PHds by the millions every year and those fuckers are willing to work for a fraction of what US workers demand.  Yeah, work hard and believe in yourself but when faced with a new American economic reality where jobs that pay livable wages are not available for even credentialed people, then you have a problem with the system.  There is a problem with the system and to defend it by saying poor people are lazy or have a lousy work ethic is bullshit used by the kings and queens to justify the shitty life of the peasants.

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Anonymous #4 said:

Anonymous #9 said:

What about college graduates with advanced degrees who have their jobs outsourced?  There are plenty of them.  Don't you see that globalization first started to outsource factory labor jobs, but who cared because they had no college so it was their fault.  Now India and China are churning out PHds by the millions every year and those fuckers are willing to work for a fraction of what US workers demand.  Yeah, work hard and believe in yourself but when faced with a new American economic reality where jobs that pay livable wages are not available for even credentialed people, then you have a problem with the system.  There is a problem with the system and to defend it by saying poor people are lazy or have a lousy work ethic is bullshit used by the kings and queens to justify the shitty life of the peasants.

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The excuses are a mile long for our economic situation, it starts with people are lazy, not enough educated people, ect.

All people (95%) have worked in this country when the opportunity was there, but today the opportunities are not there, and might not be there ever again.

We already have too many educated people, a functional economy only needs so many, accountants, corporate managers, lawyers, ect., where does the overflow go? 

The saddest thing about today's situation, the young people have no idea how good it was a generation ago, how great their grandparents and parents had it, compared to themselves.

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Anonymous #21 said:

Jobs that require advanced degrees aren't outsourced because there is little need to do so.  I can get an American PhD to work for me for 40k.  It's called a "post-doc".  I can get an American student with a 4-year degree to work as a slave for me for 5 years for 20k.  They're called "graduate students." 

There is an abundance of American PhD's and little need to outsource positions that require them.

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Anonymous #6 said:

Engineers are not PhDs.

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Anonymous #9 said:

Same shit - highly credentialed, skilled, and educated Americans are having their jobs outsourced more and more every year.  Now let's hear the same bullshit mantra - they need to be adaptable, pick themselves up by the bootstraps and not become lazy hippies.  But when their skill set no longer matches the market there is a problem.  When an advanced, technical degree is losing value and no longer a ticket to the American dream because of globalization, then life in US starts to suck for even more people.  See a trend?

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