I'm with Jens there - you cannot be serious about the bus driver thing.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 14/09/2009 04:14:36 PM
The europe comment was a politcal diatribe I probably should not have gone into but I was incredibly angry and it was much safer to vent here than onto the student. Being an American I see most of europe as socialist and leaning communist. In most european countries to my way of thinking you don't really have to work to survive and that is the way I see America going. The students don't try to learn since they expect the government to take care of them when they don't find a job, or that they will be able to make enough to survive on a job that doesn't require education (bus driver) when that used to not be possible in this country (and shouldn't be). Just my opinon of course but that was where the last bit was coming from. Let the flood of "you are evil capitalist scum" begin...
Any country needs people who do lower-level jobs as much or in some cases more than people who do upper-level jobs. Of course jobs that require higher education ought to reflect those additional demands in the wages they pay, but jobs that don't require much schooling also need to pay sufficient wages to attract candidates. All those fancy highly educated workers wouldn't get very much done if the bus & subway drivers, car manufacturers and repairmen, road & rail maintenance men, plumbers, electricians, and so on were paid such poor wages that they quit their jobs and went looking for other ones.
venting about American students
09/09/2009 06:10:41 PM
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Your post conclusion is stupid.
09/09/2009 06:30:43 PM
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That last sentence doesn't even remotely make sense or relate to the above *NM*
09/09/2009 07:41:17 PM
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As a Swede, I can attest that that'd be exactly how that student would be treated here *NM*
09/09/2009 08:02:54 PM
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I agree about the entitlement issues in young America...I'm lost how that relates to Europe... *NM*
09/09/2009 08:03:00 PM
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Yep, I'm afraid that here, too, that student would be completely out of luck.
09/09/2009 08:20:42 PM
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Tough luck for that kid. He learned a lesson. But I don't get your Europe comment either. *NM*
09/09/2009 11:18:43 PM
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Europe comment explained - socialism
14/09/2009 03:51:05 PM
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I'm with Jens there - you cannot be serious about the bus driver thing.
14/09/2009 04:14:36 PM
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