Is the whine on Wall Street more about people making bad choices in their lives than anything else?

by **tupac** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:28 am

A substantial number of protest signs posted online by occupiers blame the U.S. higher education system for their woes.

“I have a degree but no future,” one complained.

“I will trade you my master’s degree for a permanent job,” another offered.

“I am about to graduate with my bachelor’s,” another lamented. “
All I want is to feel like that means something.”

“I worked as a stripper in NYC,” another noted. “I made more money doing that than I do now, after receiving a graduate degree.” She’s another sad victim of the law of supply and demand.

“I am a 28-year-old college student with 24k in school debt and a useless degree,” reads a white board next to a young bearded man with arms crossed. “I understand that I made the choices that got me here. However, my choices were led by the FAILED INSTITUTIONS that make up this nation.”

What degrees did these people pursue and were the degrees worth what they paid for them?

by **chansomps** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:32 am

Liberal Arts degrees aren't practical degrees. you don't see many engineering majors down there, I'm sure.

by **benon** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:36 am

You are assuming that these people can make choices. If a CEO wants to downsize a company and ships the jobs overseas, so that he/she can get a bonus of 100 million bucks or more, the workers and the people filling out the job application aren't the ones making the choices for themselves. The people protesting greed on Wall Street are victim of the choices made by corrupt politicians such as Scott Walker, Dick Cheney and George W Bush.

by **torran** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:39 am

You are assuming that these people can make choices. If a CEO wants to downsize a company and ships the jobs overseas, so that he/she can get a bonus of 100 million bucks or more, the workers and the people filling out the job application aren't the ones making the choices for themselves. The people protesting greed on Wall Street are victim of the choices made by corrupt politicians such as Scott Walker, Dick Cheney and George W Bush.

Bad choices doesn't explain income growth being stagnant for 99% of the population for the last 31 years while quadrupling for the top 1%.

Bad choices doesn't explain why the Boomers with their subsidized education have continually stripped funds from it.

Bad choices doesnt' explain the growth of health care costs.

Bad choices doesn't explain record profits with concurrent 9% unemployment.

by **claudius** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:44 am

You watch too much FOX news. I could try and explain this to you but I feel it would be in vain. Let me just say this. Open your eyes and look around and pay attention. You are the one making bad decisions with the points of view you hold. People are protesting all over the globe. It's not just a small group of burnt out hippies or homeless people.

by **porter** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:57 am

You watch too much FOX news. I could try and explain this to you but I feel it would be in vain. Let me just say this. Open your eyes and look around and pay attention. You are the one making bad decisions with the points of view you hold. People are protesting all over the globe. It's not just a small group of burnt out hippies or homeless people.

No, it's more about your hysterical fear of democracy but don't worry so much, after the economic relic you worship finally collapses, we'll treat you much better than your current overlords.

by **taillefer** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:59 am

Sounds like the public and private sector should team up to a new curriculum.

by **rheged** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:05 am

You cherry pickin' some more examples from the millions? FOX LIES.

by **webb** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:16 am

Computer science degrees are a dime a dozen as well as liberal arts. Some people spend more time going to school without an agenda than is necessary.
They did not do the research to find out what jobs were the ones most needed. I think most took the easy way out.

Were they taught to defecate on police cars? There is no respect coming out of this group.

Just Soros money and a demand to collapse the capitalist system. yet none of them can tell you what they would replace it with!

My gosh man, they don't even have a clear message.

MR

by **herald** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:28 am

they're not wrong, per se... but it's also their responsbility for cutting themselves off from any knowledge offered by the Right.

the Right has been trying to tell these people that Liberal policies, Liberal educations, Liberal choices, & Liberal spending are a sop that will end up biting everyone in the butt. and it has, and now they're all "WTF? "Like Cain says, they should be occupying Washington D.C.

i'd like to see them admit it was the Tea Party, whose milliions of voices demanded the US Govt. stop bailing out private businesses, predicting terrible fallout, who have been proved correct.

but ohNooooooooo we were just racist haters who wanted Granny to fall over the cliff and DIE, and wanted to put Blacks back into slavery or DIE, and who wanted little poor children to starve and DIE....

i'm not excusing Republicans - ALL politicians have had a hand in pandering this country right down into the ground.

if Ron Paul wasn't so extreme in his views on foreign policy, i'd vote for him. he might even be correct in his isolationist views, but i'm scared to find out.

Ron Paul says it like he feels it, and I sure do admire him.

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