Profound Thought for the Day
"If everyone went to college we would have the world's most highly educated Walmart and McDonalds employees."
-- Origin unknown.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
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Solving the ‘Affordable Housing’ Problem with Land Value Taxes - …Appears on the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s blog. Here’s a snippet. Land value taxation should, in theory, raise total wages and greatly increase the ...4 years ago
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Thank You and Take Care - *Starting Position:* When I started this blog, we had the following sources for info regarding the law school scam: Temporary Attorney, Big Debt Small La...
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The Baghdad Bob of the Law School Scam - Were you ever convinced that the Iraqi army would repel and defeat the invading U.S. forces in 2003? If you lived in Iraq and only listened to Mohammed Sa...7 years ago
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What Is To Be Done? Trump, the Election, and the Student Loan Crises - President-elect Donald Trump delivering acceptance speech in New York, NY on November 9 (Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ever since now Presi...
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Mencari Kursus Online Bahasa Inggris - Apakah Anda seorang mahasiswa internasional siapa yang tertarik dalam memajukan pendidikan Anda? Mungkin Anda memiliki impian besar dari karir di bidang k...9 years ago
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Where the fuck have you been?! - Having my hopes and dreams train-fucked to death by MS-13 gangmembers would be the easy answer for whoever the fuck might still be reading this? Meanwhile, ...
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Halfway home - "Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards." -- Max Weber, *Politics as Vocation* -- For understandable reasons, the law school ref...9 years ago
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Chipping away at Goliath - I took a long break from following economic news and in depth analysis as the cardiac arrest the country went through was dealt with by the powers that ...10 years ago
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A Few More Rejection Letters - Rejection Letters 2013: 08/08/2013 We received your online application for Attorney Advisor, GS-905-13/14 (Excepted Service) ARC, GS-0905-14 which was adve...11 years ago
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Law School Debt Drives Lawyer to Kill - Not once, but twice. Wait, if you count him--that's thrice. Anyone who is as obsessed with ID television as I am knows that there are two motivations for m...
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A Closing Argument of Sorts - This will probably be my last entry at this particular blog address. This is something I've been mulling over for the last few months, and I think the time...13 years ago
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Nancy Pelosi And The Student Lending Scam - *"It's not often that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi camps under the GOP tent, but that's just what happened recently when she broke ranks with B...
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An Apology - It has been a long time since I updated this blog, and since I made some friends among the scamblog community, I thought I should at least pop in and offer...13 years ago
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On October 20, 2010, Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder asked "Why Did 17 Million Students go to College?" It appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-did-17-million-students-go-to-college/27634
"Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over 18,000 parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree."
Later on, the author wrote:
"The relentless claims of the Obama administration and others that having more college graduates is necessary for continued economic leadership is incompatible with this view. Putting issues of student abilities aside, the growing disconnect between labor market realities and the propaganda of higher-education apologists is causing more and more people to graduate and take menial jobs or no job at all. This is even true at the doctoral and professional level—there are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s, other doctorates, or professional degrees."
I've been meaning to blog about that and related articles for some time. I like the work that CCAP is doing but wish they were more adamant about reducing the number of people going to college and the number of colleges. In addition to starting an alternative bar association, another one of my unfulfilled dreams is to start my own advocacy organization dedicated to reducing college graduate production so that the supply of new graduates is much closer to the actual demand.
I need to get off of my fat butt and start blogging again.
We need you on the front lines again, Frank. The early days were so much fun, with JJD, BIDER, L4L, unperson, JD Underdog, etc. But now that we have put this issue front and center - where it belongs - it is great watching the law school cockroaches scurry into the corners.
I like hearing "scuttling," Nando, but the law school cockroaches are scuttling with millions of dollars in hand, off to retire in penthouse suites (driving mere E classes instead of S, as a testament to the suffering they endured as the scam got a little less profitable).
If you want to keep this train rolling, you should be talking about compensating those who were scammed, and punishing those who did it; not just about stopping future scams and letting the perps keep their dough.
War is hope. With IBR, "public service" and the ASaudi's promising to pay for military intervention in the Mideast; indentured students will be lead to a military career like the cattle brought to the slaughter.
I am so glad I went to graduate school. It makes mopping the greasy floor so much more meaningful, and places it in a larger context.
Nice to see you post an update. Please continue posting. Lives are being ruined by the law school thieves.
The truth is not out there yet. But it should be visible to anyone who understands how to use Google.
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