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hunter

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26. No. We should decrease work hours, increase the minimum wage, increase vacation time...

Wed May 23, 2012, 12:03 PM

May 2012

...lower the retirement age, raise taxes on the very wealthy, institute a single payer health plan, and make college free.

More CCC type jobs would be a good thing too.

I think government should create as many good jobs and student positions as needed to put industries that depend on crappy, inhumane, and/or low paying jobs out of business.

Everyone ought to be in a position to walk away from a job that sucks without any risk of starvation, homelessness, or loss of medical benefits.

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With only a 50% graduate/job rate. Should freshman classes be suspend for 5 yrs, [View all] CK_John May 2012 OP

That statistic has already been discredited scheming daemons May 2012 #1

Studied done for AP and other studies refute that. Also what do you think to rate is. your CK_John May 2012 #11

even if true, of course not, how silly would yhat be? bowens43 May 2012 #2

All those freshmen should just play X-box games until the economy recovers. FSogol May 2012 #4

What's so silly, choice is to shut down 50% of all univ. CK_John May 2012 #13

And what should all the employees of Universities do? FSogol May 2012 #18

Right. And which universities do you shut down? Javaman May 2012 #27

Mitt says that out of work college students should borrow $20-30k from their parents FSogol May 2012 #3

And what would those displaced freshmen be doing MineralMan May 2012 #5

You beat me to that! GObamaGO May 2012 #8

Read the post, CCC, Peace C, And non combat service. nt. CK_John May 2012 #16

Yes, I saw that, thanks. MineralMan May 2012 #28

the right wing is stone walling on any jobs creation, Javaman May 2012 #29

What are the Freshman aged kids supposed to do in the meantime? GObamaGO May 2012 #6

There are basically zero non combat jobs in the military obamanut2012 May 2012 #12

So now they have no job, and high student loans that start within a yr. CK_John May 2012 #19

Where are we finding the money for those infrastructure projects? GObamaGO May 2012 #30

LOL we have millions of people perfectly qualified to do that work.. Javaman May 2012 #31

We already have a huge unemployed population MineralMan May 2012 #34

I think you are romanticizing HS grad rates and what can be done without a degree. CK_John May 2012 #37

How many recent HS grads do you know? MineralMan May 2012 #38

WTF? jberryhill May 2012 #7

Wrong, high ed has never been about education, but building a work force for industry. CK_John May 2012 #20

ummm.... jberryhill May 2012 #23

Until 1950's only 6% of the population went to college. The GI Bill CK_John May 2012 #24

In the 1950s, they built a sewer system in my home town. MineralMan May 2012 #36

I really hope you are being sarcastic with this post. white_wolf May 2012 #41

The college industry depends on people not doing the ROI math. lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #43

Unfortunately it pretty much has to be the aim of an education to get a job when it's so expensive.. Fumesucker May 2012 #22

This is one of those... 99Forever May 2012 #9

If you'd been here a few years, you'd notice that most of CK_John's posts are like that scheming daemons May 2012 #15

I call these types of posts... Javaman May 2012 #32

No obamanut2012 May 2012 #10

No. Warren Stupidity May 2012 #14

Jobs aren't going to catch up FarCenter May 2012 #17

This must be a "Swiftian" proposal cthulu2016 May 2012 #21

A Modest Proposal? Eat the Freshmen! FSogol May 2012 #25

No. We should decrease work hours, increase the minimum wage, increase vacation time... hunter May 2012 #26

+1 GObamaGO May 2012 #33

I think that higher education should be available at minimal cost to anyone who wants LanternWaste May 2012 #35

Perhaps we could just encourage more kids to take up trades/majors that are employable 4th law of robotics May 2012 #39

well, we could just eat them instead. provis99 May 2012 #40

This proposition is absurd. Zanzoobar May 2012 #42

Yeah, and all those union professors XemaSab May 2012 #44

Just the freshman class would be affected. Those in school would work CK_John May 2012 #45

We're being conditioned to accept that unemployment will remain at 6.5-8% Earth_First May 2012 #46