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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. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Students
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
Students ain't easy to love and they're harder to scold.
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
Students like stuffy old lectures and clear-headed thinkin',
Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be students.
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Sam I'm afraid that if you spread out your articles on fractional reserve banking, that some people will forget what they've read in previous issues, and get confused about what you're saying. As you may remember from our long discussions in your kitchen fifteen years ago, I don't accept that ANYTHING really has intrinsic value in the sense required by your definition of the "rules" of money. I look forward to renewing our debate in the letters column of the "Frontiersman". — Sir Donald the Elusive
You're correctly concerned about the risk of spreading the material out into a series of articles. I'll just have to take my chances with the memory span of my readers and with my fond but probably vain hope that they save old issues of the newsletter for future reference. I'm spreading the material into several short articles because it's too long to present in one issue. There's one additional consequence of presenting the articles. Before I decided to present them, I'd just about decided to discontinue the Frontiersman after the December 2006 issue. When it occurred to me that I hadn't yet presented any articles about fractional reserve banking, I decided to continue the newsletter for another year. Regarding the intrinsic value of a thing, it simply means that the thing is inherently useful for something and that people want to have the thing. Since you suggested that nothing has intrinsic value as money, I've been trying to think of something that doesn't, at least potentially, have such intrinsic value. I suspect that, no matter what substance you consider, there's somebody, somewhere who'll want to have it for something. So, depending upon the situation, it might be true that all possible substances can potentially have intrinsic value as money. That's why barter works. Most things are wanted by somebody. The substances that will work the best as money are those that have intrinsic value as money for the largest number of people. Sam, Enjoy your Sabatical! — Millie; Baltimore, Maryland
It seems that I owe you, and maybe some of the other readers, an apology. I didn't intend to provide misinformation but, apparently, that's what I did. It's Buck Hunter, not me, who's going on sabbatical. That announcement appeared in the Buck Hunter section and it didn't occur to me that anybody would think that it was from me and not from Buck Hunter. The fact is that, after 13 years of the Buck Hunter column, he's run out of ideas. That's why I sent him on sabbatical. I apologize for the misunderstanding. I'm still here and I'll most likely stay here for a while. — editor
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Acknowledgments My thanks to the following: Sir James the Bold; SantaClara Bob; Lady Jan the Voluptuous; Lord Jeffrey the Studious; Millie, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Steve, of Fremont, California. — editor
Changing Times Original Source Unknown. Forwarded by Steve, of Fremont, California. Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight at school. 1956: A crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and become friends. Nobody goes to jail, is arrested, or is expelled. 2006: The police are called and send a SWAT team. Johnny and Mark are arrested and charged with assault. Both of them are expelled from school, even though Johnny started it. Precedent is no substitute for logic. — Don Carow, General Electric Company
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