college educated idiot's

COLLEGE EDUCATED IDIOT’S


I’m going to leave catabolic collapse, cannibalism ( A History of Cannibalism: From Ancient Cultures to Survival Stories and Modern Psychopaths ), bolt action military rifles and other assorted fun items alone today and serve you with a tasty treat I usually don’t indulge in- an article assuming that we are not in fact going to all die in June 2012 ( the Mayans [ The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind ] had it wrong, the actual day the world ends is the day of my last child support payment- easily proven by the past evidence that the gods do not wish me to enjoy any of my own money ), but that we might actually last a little longer. To this end I’ll talk about the idiocy of getting a college education. I’m a Johnny come lately on this, as it has been done much better by Gary North ( who tells you how to do it much cheaper ) and our buddy over at http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/ who tells you what a rip off it is. Of course, being who I am, a wild and crazy guy ( Steve and Dan on SNL [ Saturday Night Live - The Complete First Season : 1975-1976 ] ), I won’t let ignorance stand in the way of my opinion. And speaking of opinions, I want to direct you to Orr’s Law. What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves. In other words, we all convince ourselves whatever we think is true. Scary, whether listening to me or yourselves.

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Say what you will of Yuppie Survivalists, Rawles ( Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse ) is a valuable resource and should be on your dairy reading list. Due to my limited time on the Interweb I can’t always leisurely search for resources. So I appreciated the link to http://www.inyopools.com/ for a cheap source of calcium hypochlorite. I’m pretty happy with my stockpiling, having gotten 100 pounds of salt last weekend and 250 pounds of wheat two days ago ( a county of 30k and the only feed store had 250 pounds of wheat kernels- but don’t listen to me about panicking early ) since I now have extra storage space ( I’ll post some updated Bison Compound pictures here real soon ). But I wanted the dry bleach to supplement my water filters. Now I can get that.

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So, I’m flipping through the limited amount of channels on Saturday night ( or was it Friday? No matter ) and what do I see but one of the worst shows on TV outside Dancing With American Idol, Wife Swap ( the wife swappers ). This turd makes professional wrestling look spontaneous and unscripted. What kept me watching for ten minutes was that one couple believed that the world would end in 2012, on the Mayan calendar. The wife’s strategy was clearly to eat as much as possible for her own personal larder ( she was heavier than the neighbors cows ) and they moved to the Midwest from Arizona to better their odds. Part of their stockpiling was to buy on delayed payment since no one would be collecting. The house was full of “don’t pay until 2013” furniture. Now, the script was pretty evident. Make each couple look dysfunctional and idiotic. As a bonus, to appease the bankers funding the show, show survivalists as jagbags. My problem is that the show is popular enough to reflect badly on the viewers. Do these idiots actually buy into this garbage? Well, they still buy into the college myth, so perhaps. The college myth states that if you get a degree, you will make lots of money and former cheerleaders will hang from your balding head and spreading gut in admiration. This was certainly true at one time, even if most of the good paying jobs were directly or indirectly funded through taxes ( which is one of the main reasons the state budgets are in trouble- total over spending on future pensions- already here through Detroit and Social Security and now showing up as huge state budget deficits. And, Nevada is #1 AGAIN!! The highest projected deficit of all the states, as a percentage ).

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I’ve maintained for decades that college is a suckers bet. I knew in 86 that military training was worthless in the civilian market ( this was prior to Blackwater ) and two years later was working on the casino floor slinging coins ( before the advent of paper or e-pay in slot machines [ Break the One-Armed Bandits ] ) with holders of Masters degrees. It wasn’t just one guy, it was a familiar tale. Of course, back then casinos paid Union wages and now are just as bad as any other industry, so even if the prestige was low the pay was decent. But not decent enough to pay school debt. So, twenty years ago pay was higher and tuition was much cheaper and yet was still a poor deal. Today, it is financial suicide to go to college if it is paid for with debt. 5% will make it work, with daddy paying or with an old boy network to secure future employment. The rest of the average, non-connected schmucks will be ripped off. That probably means you or your spawn. The job market is shrinking as the population increases. I know you are the mostest special person in the whole wide world, but the odds are still against you. Even trade school is a gamble, but at least you gamble a lot less. Lucifer’s Handmaiden wanted to go to flight school in the early 90’s and it seemed a good bargain. Ten grand, about the cost of a car. The school ( at one time supposedly the nations best- I can’t remember the name, but in Tulsa Oklahoma ) pretty much lied about most everything, and to compound that Herself decided to extend her schooling on and off until it became a fifty grand debt. And it took ten years to land a steady, decent flight job. I did support the family, rent and diapers, formula and car payments, etc., for two years, but thank goodness I was never responsible for her student loans ( that, plus now supporting two people on minimum wage with 50% withholding, allows me no sympathy for people who insist you need two incomes to live ).

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Now my daughter wants to go to cosmetology ( Getting it Right!: Milady's Survival Guide for Cosmetology Students ) school. She has a natural talent, and she gravitates to that fufu girly crap like a fly to an offal pile, but if she doesn’t get any assistance one year of trade school will run her ten grand. And that is at a community college ( although it is a compressed three semester schedule ) . I can’t say it will be a waste of money or time, but the sad thing is that for the most part that is considered a bargain today ( or at least as cheap as it is going to get ). Perhaps there are cheaper states, but then you don’t save by getting free rent and board. The simple truth is that college is rapidly going back to a rich sons game. The colleges themselves won’t admit it, they are locked into the old way of quantity over quality. But if you don’t look at it realistically you will be a lifetime indentured servant before you even see a mortgage or car payment. College is no longer an investment but a gamble. Spend less and have more fun by coming here to Nevada to gamble. The prostitutes are ugly ( so I’ve heard ) and the climate sucks off the casino floor, but it will be better odds of winning. Or, just go with Orr’s Law and ignore the warnings.
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