EDUCATION

They keep raising the bar on education.  Used to be you could learn a job and work your way up.  You could start right out of high school.  It made sense that you could be independent at age 18.  You could start a life and start a family.  When I went to school the bar was raised, you needed a college degree to get a job but they also wanted top typing skills.  Then they wanted a master's degree.  One smart thing I did was to get myself a double master's degree, I never regretted it.  I was able to work part time and still keep a roof over my head and food on the table.  Now the bar is being raised again.  Your super expensive college degree must now be concentrated in science.  If you didn't study science, you don't deserve to have a job.  Now that is crazy and exploitative.  In a way we have things all backwards.  We don't need just the super educated people, we need people who can actually make things.  The ivy league mathematicians were responsible for the fake economy of the 2000's. They had top notch computers skills but lacked common sense, a moral center and a knowledge of history.   Because of avarice they created mortgage instruments that crashed our entire economy.. At the same time jobs for people who made stuff started to be outsourced.  We sent those jobs overseas.   We need to get back to basics.  We need to make stuff and we need to pay the people who actually do the work a good wage, so they can turn around and buy that same stuff.  That's what Henry Ford did, remember?  You can't have falling wages and growth.  You will only have growth if wages start to go up.  I think we should have a shopping boycott until they start paying better wages. Union busting and downsizing has been going on for the past thirty years.  We used to be over 33% union, now it's down to around 6 %. One worker does the work of three. It's time to take our country back from the corporations, not government. We need regulation because people in power and privatized   companies can not be trusted. To get back to zero this country needs a diet and an exercise program. We must all whether rich or poor do our part by having a progressive tax. Time to close the loopholes, cut unnecessary spending, and tax everyone to raise money to build this country up to the superpower it should and could be.