Q&A: Biggest problem in America today?
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I think the biggest problem in America today is that the country is becoming more white-collar oriented and getting a living wage job almost 100% requires at least a Bachelor’s degree now, but with the current Republican trend to privatize everything it is becoming harder to actually go to college because there is no system in place other then the failed student loan system (which was killed by privatization) that can help with this.
What do you think…Less realistic unskilled labor jobs, a requirement to be skilled to survive, the means to become skilled is becoming almost impossible to obtain except for the elite, and if you do utilize the only way non-elites can obtain skills you’re often times worse off then if you didn’t, and even if you do obtain the skills, the skill set you obtain is very incomplete and only partially useful at best.
I think we need some sort of system that supports getting as many people through college, at least to a Bachelor’s degree (don’t even get me started about Associates degrees), instead of saying that they could get student loans and because they’re not in college they’re lazy and writing them off and a drain on society. Student loans, under the current American system, is a failure. People are expected to, once graduated, immediately begin paying back like $ 800+ a month for 5 or 10 years…while having to pay for a place to live, gas for a car, and food. A person in American who graduates college would have to make almost $ 2000 a month starting wage in order to survive if they have student loans to pay back.
Finally, if you go to college, and have a slip on the vulturistic student loan payments and run into financial trouble you’re screwed because you have to have good credit to get a job in this country. So, you’re options are to go to college and hope to god you’re one of the few that can actually land a dream job and pay back student loans or do not go to college and work at wal-mart and struggle to survive. This is of course if your parents do not have the money for college.
Then if you go to college, the schools today are more concerned with making people memorize facts, figures, and information then about actually teaching them to think for themselves. Today’s college graduate can recite what was in their text book stated, but a lot of the time has no real understanding of what it means. The schools assume that if you learn the technology of the trade you suddenly become fully capable of working in that trade. For example, if you teach someone how to use a film camera they suddenly become able to survive in the Hollywood movie making system…or if you teach someone HTML they suddenly become able to work in the web design industry or if you have them memorize all the facts in their science book they can suddenly become a scientist.
Hey answer please use your brain, the condition of the economy is a symptom not the cause. The cause is stated above.
So Rachael, you think the problem is the fact the America isn’t MORE elitist? Are you on drugs? Elitist, you sound very republican.
Also Rachel I speak from nothing but experience. I have seen people obtain educations and end up with $ 800+ a month in student loan payments with interest that added to more than the initial loan payment and an estimated 10 years pay off time with the loan companies not allowing a person to pay more then the monthly amount forcing the person to be enslaved to them for 10 or more years. I was in college twice and both times I had a majority of classes that were “memorize this and recite it on the test, it means what it says’ and that was the extent of the class. I had one class where the teacher would makr a question wrong if you got the definition word for word, but missed punctuation. I know you’re living in the fantasy world of college education, but the rest of the universe is not!
Hey Rachael, have you ever heard of the word pathetic?
Sounds like you identify as a person who needs to feel better than other people for things she’s done and fights tooth and nail to make sure that the things shs’s done does not become any easier to do otherwise she looses her identity as an elitist. It’s called republican.
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Answer by Shovel Ready
I think the biggest problem is the prohibitive risk-adjusted cost of employing an American.
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