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TenBears

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-17/class-2015-–-you-chumps


We are now 25 centuries after Pericles and Socrates. But today, the typical university has no more interest in learning than a rat terrier or a congressman.

Our government is a disgrace to honest democracy, if there were such a thing; it is a scam and a deceit.

Rich, powerful special interests wager billions of dollars on hollow puppet candidates, knowing their investment will pay off hugely if they are successful.

Our money system is an elaborate fraud, too. It steals from laborers, merchants and artisans and rewards speculators, insiders and layabouts. The entire system is sick and dysfunctional

But you probably have no idea what we’re talking about, because you’ve just spent the last four years of your life – and paid a fortune – so you could avoid learning about it.

Victims of the System

If you’ve studied the sciences or engineering (especially petroleum engineering, according to a study done by Georgetown University) maybe you’ll be able to earn enough to pay back your student debt.

But most of you have wasted your money with degrees in subjects that won’t help you understand the real world we live in or earn an extra dime in it.

Many of you have spent the best years of your lives… and borrowed a fortune… to learn things that aren’t true.

History, economics, government, politics – for every useful and truthful insight you may have learned, there are probably 100 more that were buried under claptrap.

There’s a big difference between the real world and the world of a college student. The real world is grittier, harder to understand, more cynical than you can imagine.

And it’s big.

The world of academia is much smaller. There are the well-defined limits of the school… the limits of the work… limits on student conduct.

There are also tests – and they are limited too. Generally, you know when the tests are coming… what they will cover… and what you have to do to succeed at them.

In real life, if there are any limits, you don’t know where they are. You never know when you’ll be tested. Often, you can be in the middle of a major test and not know it. You don’t know what you need to do to pass either.

And you surely don’t know this: You are being tested right now. You are now confronted with a problem you probably have never thought about. But it’s one that could ruin… or at least greatly impair… your entire lives.

You are victims of a system set up before you were born. The benefits of that system, such as they are, go to your parents and grandparents.

But you have to pay for it.

You’ll find it hard to keep up with the payments. As a result, it is unlikely you will be able to enjoy the material wealth and freedom of action that we, your parents, took for granted.

A Lifetime of Debts
 

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There is a link at the bottom of the story, it deserves a read also. The author says all the good jobs started leaving in the late 90's, isn't that when all the good " free trade" started kicking in?

Consumers that matter don't give a rats ass about this report. Consumers that matter don't care about the national debt.
 

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