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I can't disagree with you, but not all of them are "males". In fact, most of those doing so are probably females, and as for "sitting at home" ... well, I dunno.
Anyway, the situation presently is that we have been coming out of a recession the worst in 60 years - that spiked at 10% unemployment 6 years ago - and which has had a lasting effect upon those beyond 40. If you did not get a post-secondary* education "back then", you are more than unlikely to get one now. Unless one is very courageous, and no-doubt some are.
The fact is you need a college education or some kind of job skill unless you want to work for minimum wage your entire life.
Even skilled jobs you need some kind of job training.
What I cannot understand about this last election is that we elected a PotUS based upon "sentiment" rather than logic. One may not "like" Hillary, or even dislike Hillary more than disliking the Dork - or whatever. But, my point remains this: [BNothing would have changed the landscape of job-hunting-and-obtention more than Hillary's platform-piece of offering our kids a post-secondary education free, gratis and for nothing. [/B]
Nothing.
This is where there is a disconnect in reality and liberalism. Nothing is free it would have cost a fortune to implement it. Sanders didn't know how to pay for it and neither did Clinton.
this so called free education would have been hung on the backs of working people like it always is. What makes it worse is that not every person would be able to attend. You would have to
gate the process. there are only so many seats in a class and only so many teachers to teach it.
Look, at present, we have become mostly a Services-Oriented Economy. Manufacturing is being depleted of manpower by robotic machinery - which, I must add, is the ONLY WAY we are going to get production costs down to a level that will allow Uncle Sam to succeed on global markets. So, let's give industry (manufacturing) its just due, which aint much in terms of developing jobs.
This is just the natural progression. Other economies will start doing the same thing and it will hit them just as hard. Manufacturing can come back to the US but it needs a fair chance to do so.
right now it is just to cost prohibitive.
The world is changing since 1991, when the Bamboo Curtain came crashing down in China - and we were fools then not to recognize the eventual consequences. And take action subsequently to prevent the harm done. We have become a Services Economy, for which higher-grade skill-sets* are indispensible ...
*Vocational, college or university
This is how it usually goes. This is just norm for the course.