(1) Some college majors are literally useless. “I don’t have a major, but I Plan II.”

(2) Some college majors now have computers and/or machines doing their jobs for them, or, they’re not a sufficient skill set on their own for a job these days – as in, they’re part of a larger skill set for a more comprehensive job now.

(3) Many college majors are for jobs that are now being shipped overseas these days. Gone are the days when factory workers were watching their jobs go to China and India; today, even engineers are watching their jobs go overseas.

How do we get colleges around the U.S. to update their cirriculua and reduce enrollment so that the students getting in are ready for the tough academic work ahead of them, and can major in subjects that are needed in the job market today? (Not 30 years ago.)

If you are not a college graduate, you might not advance beyond head teller, but for smart college graduates, the sky’s the limit.

Don’t know, since I went to school in another country; but if you believe standardized tests such as TIMSS, the US is doing quite badly compared to the rest of the world.

And that’s a matter for concern.

It may well be the case that things are worse now…but I’d be interested to know how much worse, as this has always been going on.

And there must have been something to the college education, as everyone seems to have moved up into professional careers, the former secretaries even moving into managerial positions.

So I really think that you can read too much into this.

Insecure much? Listening to Obama’s supporters always strikes me as like listening to a debate in a freshman dorm room – anyone who disagrees with them is stupid and they have to tell you so to build themselves up. In the immortal line from ‘Mean Girls’ “Calling other people stupid doesn’t make you any smarter”. Truer words were never spoken.

“I, too, have strong political opinions, …”

I don’t, though.

I agree, you’re right about that too. The reason that our society is starting to fall apart at the seams is because there’s more than enough corruption to go around; corrupt CEOs and accountants; corrupt Republican Presidents; corrupt Democratic Presidents; and a corrupt Congress.

Changing the filter does us no good when the machine itself is dirty…

The people who run the auto companies hardly hate the federal government. When Japanese imports became big during the ’70s, the auto companies got the feds to limit the number of imports allowed. One reason that domestic SUVs have such a high profit margin is that imported SUVs face an especially high tariff.

The companies fight with the unions about how to split the pie but they make common cause with the unions (and all those votes) when it comes to securing competitive advantages to make that pie as big as possible.

The other is where I do my political commentary – http://www.rightasusual.blogspot.com

Feel free to join me. I’ll have a post set up, where you can comment to your hearts content, left, right, center, libertarian, apolitical. Let’s leave Joanne’s great site primarily focused on education.