Moms Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up to be Educated
Jim Sullivan
In
this country, teens in ever growing numbers are graduating from the 12th
grade. Consequently, the United States of America has a multitude
of citizens with high school diplomas. However, there are not enough
jobs in this country that require so much schooling. The traditional
vast middle ground of U.S. employment that required a high school diploma
and sometimes even a college degree has, of late, experienced huge losses
in available jobs. Those jobs have been and continue to be outsourced
to India, China, and elsewhere around the globe. What this nation
really needs is more citizens with less education. Those citizens
would be able to compete head to head with the illegal immigrants who have,
by and large, fewer years of formal learning and who are currently seeking
and filling jobs within the U.S.
It
would appear that the future bodes well for the poorly educated.
The employment situation in America today is such that the fewer years
you went to school the more likely you are to get hired. Sure, it'll
be at, near, or possibly below the minimum wage and without benefits.
But, hey, one shouldn't complain because, after all, it's paid work.
If you don't want to fill the slot then some illegal immigrant does.
The
same advice is valid, though for different reasons, in going to or staying
in college. In the past, parents and other adults would point out
that college grads, over their lifetime, make more money. According
to that information, 12th grade graduates should definitely get a higher
education. But that's no longer true. Today, foreign students
are taking college-level jobs in this country. And why not?
Those people are accepting lower wages. Moreover, most other jobs,
even including those in the professions such as law, medicine, accounting,
computer specialties, and engineering, are being outsourced beyond U.S.
shores. Professionals in those foreign lands are only too glad to
have the work at much lower earnings.
So,
why don't you give yourself a good shot at a job? Drop out of school
immediately. It's the only logical conclusion. Formal schooling
today is the sure way to starvation. Put another way, Moms, don't
let your kids grow up to be educated.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Students
Sam Aurelius Milam III
With thanks to Willie Nelson
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
Don't let 'em take classes an' read them ol' books.
Make 'em be coppers or bouncers or crooks.
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
They'll never stay home and they're poverty prone. Study is all
that they love.
Students ain't easy to love and they're harder to scold.
An' they'd rather give you a lesson than diamonds or gold.
Long staring thinking and old faded term themes and each night begins
a new day.
An' if you don't understand him and he don't die young
He'll probably just hide away.
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
Don't let 'em take classes an' read them ol' books.
Make 'em be coppers or bouncers or crooks.
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
They'll never stay home and they're poverty prone. Study is all
that they love.
Students like stuffy old lectures and clear-headed thinkin',
Logical discourse and research and girls that are bright.
An' them that don't know him won't like 'im and them that do sometimes
won't know how to take 'im.
He ain't wrong he's just different and his pride will let him do things
to make you think he's right.
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
Don't let 'em take classes an' read them ol' books.
Make 'em be coppers or bouncers or crooks.
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
They'll never stay home and they're poverty prone. Study is all
that they love.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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