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In reply to the discussion: How I would solve the job problem. I would introduce a totally new program [View all]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)42. you can be debt free and still lose your job, your shelter, your health care, your means to eat
why is this so foreign a concept to you?
are you completely clueless to the reality of poverty, a reality that is so easy to see in this country unless you protect yourself from seeing it?
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How I would solve the job problem. I would introduce a totally new program [View all]
CK_John
May 2012
OP
Interesting suggestions, but my 1st reaction is that they're politically unrealistic beyond the pale
Scuba
May 2012
#1
So you basically force high school grads to put their lives on hold for five years,
MadHound
May 2012
#3
1 out 2 grads can't get a job and carry at least 80,000 in loans. Sad thing is jobs
CK_John
May 2012
#6
while you're at it how about reducing the standard workweek down to about 30 hours....
limpyhobbler
May 2012
#4
I believe you are relying on false facts. Technical advances has cut the number of jobs
CK_John
May 2012
#16
the rich get richer because they start out rich and poor get poorer because they they are poor
CreekDog
May 2012
#37
you can be debt free and still lose your job, your shelter, your health care, your means to eat
CreekDog
May 2012
#42
If you can pay off your credit cards every month you obviously don't need credit cards
lunatica
May 2012
#31
I don't think so, we have lots of regulated brokers, stocks,real property, planning,etc..
CK_John
May 2012
#24
True but the OP does identify an issue that few are willing to acknowledge
TheKentuckian
May 2012
#33
I don't think it would solve anything except provide fodder for a Dostoyevskian plotline.
aikoaiko
May 2012
#34
Horrible idea. People have a right to a higher education, if they can afford it.
Honeycombe8
May 2012
#43
Higher ed has never been about education but for providing a qualified workforce for
CK_John
May 2012
#46
This is true. It is about providing discussion and thinking of a myriad of ideas and topics....
Honeycombe8
May 2012
#52