tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post6524627578903712925..comments2023-10-28T06:16:41.152-05:00Comments on Hip Suburban White Guy: Our Higher Educational System is Broken and DysfunctionalXavier Onassishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345787343828318445noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-28278116946594853022012-08-18T00:17:00.824-05:002012-08-18T00:17:00.824-05:00Mark Smith - I always love hearing from you!
&quo...Mark Smith - I always love hearing from you!<br /><br />"Maybe the cost of education has increased because of teachers unions..."<br /><br />Yes. Because teachers make SO MUCH MONEY!!! THOSE RICH BASTARDS! Fucking teachers! Lording it over the all of the hard working doctors and lawyers with their FAT TEACHER PAYCHECKS!<br /><br />"...and caddy pension and insurance plans..."<br /><br />Yeah. If I could only quit being a Systems Analyst for a major financial institution, go back to school and become a grade school reading teacher I would really have it made!<br /><br />"... tenure..." Only available to a select few instructors in a dwindling number of schools. Which is a shame. Because tenure insulates college and university instructors from angry parents, petty alumni, political hacks and other ignorant jack-wagons who want to dictate what can and cannot be taught.<br /><br />"...free rides for those lacking the desire to actually take full advantage of the skin tone scholarship. So the less deserving often got the free ride while the working class kid got the shaft."<br /><br />Aaaanndd there's the racist push. The fear that po black folk are getting a leg up over the lazy trust fund crowd.<br /><br />I certainly fucking hope so.<br /><br />"Maybe everyone shares a little of the blame, starting with the guy who admits he should have started saving years ago."<br /><br />Point taken. Sharply and deeply. I think about it every day and it keeps me awake every night.<br /><br />But when you live paycheck to paycheck with no extra anything, trying to save for a child's college and/or your own retirement isn't really an option. <br /><br />"...blaming all of the worlds collective woes on a party that you and others consider intellectual midgets makes you and them sound mildly retarded."<br /><br />Calling them "intellectual midgets" are your words, not mine.<br /><br />I would say intellectual krill, or intellectual amoeba's.<br /><br />And they lower the Stupid Bar every fucking year.<br /><br />The Conservatives seem to be in a competitive race with the Evangelicals.<br /><br />The Evangelicals don't give a flying fuck about anything happening on, in or with the planet because Angry Jeebus is Coming Soon to rescue their delusional asses.<br /><br />Conservatives idea of Utopia seems to be Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" where everyone is so incredibly fucking stupid that anyone with a pulse can become president and "book smarts" are highly suspicious.<br /><br />OK, I've had enough fun. Time for bed.<br /><br />Good to hear from you Mark! Hope all is well with you. Don't be such a stranger.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Xavier Onassishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345787343828318445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-78872100055291950982012-08-17T21:09:13.517-05:002012-08-17T21:09:13.517-05:00you had me for a about one paragraph XO, then you ...you had me for a about one paragraph XO, then you started blaming the evil republicans. Maybe the cost of education has increased because of teachers unions and caddy pension and insurance plans, tenure, free rides for those lacking the desire to actually take full advantage of the skin tone scholarship. So the less deserving often got the free ride while the working class kid got the shaft. Maybe everyone shares a little of the blame, starting with the guy who admits he should have started saving years ago. One thing is certain , blaming all of the worlds collective woes on a party that you and others consider intellectual midgets makes you and them sound mildly retarded. mark smithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-61945933216233129202012-08-13T07:44:15.379-05:002012-08-13T07:44:15.379-05:00Yay for her! Yay for her! Poodlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-20875300017435601932012-08-11T17:13:47.299-05:002012-08-11T17:13:47.299-05:00I Travel-- the purpose of college was never origin...I Travel-- the purpose of college was never originally about finding better ways to hustle for money-- it was to help young people learn the proper philosophy of life and to expand their minds. There's more to life than grubbing for every last goddamned dollar.seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-15661098391620367652012-08-09T10:44:31.977-05:002012-08-09T10:44:31.977-05:00Sounds like a solid plan. Personally, I wouldn'...Sounds like a solid plan. Personally, I wouldn't want to have my hands in peoples' mouths all day, but that's just one of my foibles.<br /><br />Actually, I was just remarking to my Supermodel Wife the other day that I should have been an optometrist. Talk about an easy job…FletcherDodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00870340800475532887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-19070724490695938242012-08-09T08:58:20.964-05:002012-08-09T08:58:20.964-05:00Of course you would blame this on Republicans. We...Of course you would blame this on Republicans. We could debate this for a long time but I just don't care to do that right now except to say there is no such thing as a free lunch these days unless you are on welfare and that's apparently where we are all headed with the Democrats in charge.<br /><br />That aside, it's nice to see your daughter got a job at all considering the economy. Dentists are the #2 highest paid profession, second only to Physicians. I hope they pay her half way decent wages considering their own wealth. <br /><br />I am all for trade schools in general and I wish the Jr. Colleges would offer more of these technical degree programs. 4 year liberal arts schools are going to become extinct unless they start actually teaching students how to make money vs how to hate conservatives.I Travel for JOOLShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07348834982890831188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-31809871939713759892012-08-08T15:33:38.116-05:002012-08-08T15:33:38.116-05:00Just be careful down the line and make sure the in...Just be careful down the line and make sure the in-office training is something she can transfer to other offices or into promotions. I knew a lot of guys who skipped college and went right into a tech/computer related job. 10-15 years down the line, they started getting passed over for jobs because (although they had the experience) they lacked the degree. <br /><br />At the end of the day, it is all up to employers. In the past, employers wanted degrees. When the economy tanked and all these degree-holding people lost their job, it became kind of apparent that those degrees lost some value in the eyes of some employers.Ekey84https://www.blogger.com/profile/07894922929667106006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21353439.post-30597396192906723732012-08-07T23:38:33.058-05:002012-08-07T23:38:33.058-05:00I think dental assisting is a good line of work fo...I think dental assisting is a good line of work for a gal just coming out of high school. I have long term assistants at my dentist's office, he must pay enough to keep quality help. My soon to be ex wife went to xray school in her early 30's and she makes over three times the income I do in a Union job. It is a two year JC program, at least it is in California. I'm glad to see GTO getting a trade and not farting around.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14955078574626461009noreply@blogger.com