No shame, it appears..

[ironglow]

  people with "higher degrees" just HAVE to go on food stamps, welfare and other public assistance..Boo Hoo!
  There are jobs out there if they look for them..I see signs up in convenience stores, Burger Kings and there are jobs waiting with landscaopers, small construction firms and ditching companies...IF THEY WANT TO WORK!  If one of these jopbs won't get it..take two..at least for a time..
http://www.newsmax.com/US/graduate-degrees-food-stamps/2012/05/07/id/438255
    Here's another real "tear jerker" : 
 http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-05-08/news/31621963_1_graduate-students-food-stamps-phd
  Frankly, if I had spent that much money (either theirs or the taxpayers) on "higher education', and still could not find gainful employment..I would have to be ashamed.  Seems as if many have lost their sense of personal responsibility and the basic determination of being a man.
  I am semi-retired, and not long ago my home county sent me an invitation..to apply for food stamps.  Once my wife opened the envelope and explained what it was about...I didn't have time enough to instruct her to trash it..she was already lifting the lid.

[littlecanoe]

In too many cases the education system has encouraged people to go out and get useless degrees or degrees which are not in demand. 
The people have been led down the path and are then stuck with the circumstances.
IMO, higher ed has become a business and needs to go back to competing rather than being subsidized. 
We have undersold the idea of technical schools and oversold the idea that a sheepskin is the ticket to success.
There is nothing wrong with the trades as a great way to make a living and provide for the family.
How long has have things been trending this way?  40 years?

lc

[ironglow]

In too many cases the education system has encouraged people to go out and get useless degrees or degrees which are not in demand. 
The people have been led down the path and are then stuck with the circumstances.
IMO, higher ed has become a business and needs to go back to competing rather than being subsidized. 
We have undersold the idea of technical schools and oversold the idea that a sheepskin is the ticket to success.
There is nothing wrong with the trades as a great way to make a living and provide for the family.
How long has have things been trending this way?  40 years?

lc

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  What I'm getting at is...  Why can't this guy and others like him just go out and make a living the same way your landscaper, mechanic or short order cook does..rather than sponging off the taxes paid by people making much less than $50K ? Surely if he is that bright, he can master at least one of those trades.