>>72371
No. For many good reasons. One is the absolute amount of debt slavery you'll accumulate for the rest of your life (thanks to Obama's federal student loan program that does not allow the debt slave to file bankruptcy and makes the debt slave completely legally liable to pay off all that debt accumulated). Most degrees are total rip-offs. Most the jobs you might have gotten an education for will be rendered obsolete due to automation, outsourcing and AI. Also you have to compete with hoards of third world Indian slave laborers for any of those jobs left over. Still on the hook for all that debt.

Stupid. Absolute fraudulent debt trap.

Moreover I have seen many of the youth come out of college even dumber than they were coming out of their high school years. The Marxist indoctrination is another major problem with "higher education" (puke). Educational system has been crippled by retarded politics and idiotic ideologies and that's another reason not to bother.

Join the trade. Yah, sure you'll only make $18 an hour, but you won't be $88,000 in debt you can't escape from. You can take out a 30 year mortgage and slowly pay it off and afford the bills if you are smart with your money and don't blow it on unnecessary crap, living within your means. If you have decent parents get on their good side and they'll likely help you out when need be. You will be far, far more successful in life than the average debt slave that bought a worthless degree for +$80K.

It'll be tried again no doubt and it will fail hard again. Watch NYC for the next three years, pay close attention. The failure will be blamed on those who flee to greener pastures, aka capital flight, those who move their wealth outside the corrupted system of high taxation and forced re-distribution thievery. They'll blame those who refused to be robbed blind. They'll demand their failed thieving system of wealth re-distribution be imposed everywhere else so no one can flee from their failed third world policies. Next all the wealth will simply flee the nation entirely when the idiots get full control. That means any and all job opportunities completely go away. Tax revenues start to dry up. Businesses and shops shut down. Supply chains break. Infrastructure no longer maintained, not enough funding or tax revenue because you scared everyone with wealth into fleeing the country. Few more years you wind up living in a third world country. People fight over resources, food, shelter, whatever. Some just die. The government becomes tyrannical to maintain in control at the expense of everyone else. The rich laugh at your bad karma living high on the hog overseas as you get everything you voted for. Your country is no longer a superpower. You are stuck, impoverished, never to live with the luxuries you once took for granted.

Don't believe this can happen?
Look at the state of the UK today.
Most Brits are totally impoverished and cannot even speak out against their oppression without risking a jail sentence anymore.
What is terrifying is some people really want that to happen here.

The widening mismatch between an oversupply of college-educated workers and a deepening shortage of talent for non-degree, hands-on jobs is one of the many things ruining the economy.

Tylenda and others on the team spoke with labor demographer Ron Hetrick, who outlined how the U.S. labor market is entering a structural slowdown driven by aging demographics, a falling birth rate, and weakening participation among older workers. Hetrick outlined that baby boomers once supplied 65 million workers, but only 25 million remain, and no younger generation is large enough to replace them.

This demographic squeeze is creating a skills imbalance: an oversupply of college-educated workers and a shortage of vocational and lower-skilled labor for non-degree jobs.

These days, college is a woke indoctrination factory pumping out our purple-haired creatures who are confused about their gender and rave about Marxism. College is not like it used to be. There is an oversupply of unproductive "woke" degrees. Don't be woke. Be productive, find a solid trade job that won't be automated into extinction by 2030.

Tariffs are one of the few measures at Trump’s disposal to unilaterally stop the bleeding and force corporations to bring the wealth and jobs back to the US. This is done through new domestic manufacturing and the end of general outsourcing using third world labor. Globalism is NOT the free market, it is the opposite. It is forced interdependency of nations and economies to the benefit of a tiny handful of ultra-wealthy elites.

The tariff fight is direct and Trump’s reasons are evident. The average Joe wants more American jobs with higher salaries for the middle class instead of wallowing in low-wage retail and service sector hell. But Trump can’t say he’s fighting for this end result through tariffs and then turn around and let an army of migrants take middle class jobs.

The President stumbled into multiple forehead slapping blunders this past week. He called for 600,000 Chinese students to prop up US colleges. He called for 50-year mortgages to offset plunging home ownership, and he argued that America doesn’t have the talent pool to fill jobs taken by H1B foreigners.

The H1B issue reveals Trump’s great weakness: He doesn’t have a clear economic plan with rules and goals – Making him easily changeable and vulnerable to outside influence. He’s playing the situation by ear. That might work for some problems, but not for a financial system weakened by stagflation and mass immigration.

There are approximately 730,000 foreign workers operating in the US today on H1B visas. Most of these workers come from third-world economies, 70% of them come from India.

Remittances are cash transfers from illegal migrants and visa holders back to their home countries. These transfers represent a massive dollar-based wealth transfer to certain nations. India is the largest recipient of remittances from the US (Mexico is the second largest). Over $129 billion is transferred from foreign workers into India every year.

To put this in perspective, this is nearly three times the amount that India spends annually on public welfare programs. It’s also almost twice the amount of the dollar value in goods that India exports to US markets. That is to say, remittances are far more important for cash flowing into India’s economy than manufacturing and agricultural exports to US consumers.

It is possible that in order to cut deals with India on tariffs Trump is compelled to back off of his opposition to H1B. Trump’s recent argument is, essentially, that America isn’t able to function without H1B workers and that Americans are not able to fill the jobs that these migrant do. This is utter nonsense.

Even conservatives with migrant backgrounds often don’t view America as a culture they need to adapt to and support, they view it as an economic zone for their countrymen to freely access and exploit. This is their definition of the “American Dream”, and this is why immigration is a problem. Illegal immigration certainly, but H1B is also a concern. These people are quick to trash on Americans as “too uneducated” or “too lazy” to take on certain jobs.

The biggest lie about H1B is that foreign workers are hired because they have the training. Many do not. In fact, companies run training centers in the US, bring workers over on visas, then teach them how to do the jobs they’re being hired for. Even worse, American employees are often forced under contract to train their third world replacements before they are laid off. This is about US companies taking advantage and saving money on labor, it has nothing to do with skill or education.

The point is, if we can educate and train third worlders, then we can easily educate and train Americans. Therefore, there’s little reason for H1B to exist.

>>72372
>Join the trade. Yah, sure you'll only make $18 an hour, but you won't be $88,000 in debt you can't escape from. You can take out a 30 year mortgage and slowly pay it off and afford the bills if you are smart with your money and don't blow it on unnecessary crap, living within your means.

I figure how the average worker would live not having any student loan debt. Let's say the average pay is $18 per hour.

$18 per hour is around $2880 total per month.
- minus income tax = $2,448 per month left over,
- minus grocery bills (per month) ~$380 = $2,068 left over,
- minus monthly mortgage payment ~$500 = 1,568 left over,
- minus health insurance payment ~$150 = $1,418 left over,
- minus homeowner insurance cost (divided per month) ~$200 = $1,218 left over,
- minus monthly electricity & water bills ~$400 = $818 left per month.

Other costs would include commuting (fuel), household & utility maintenance, clothing, furniture, internet/phone service and entertainment. You would have approximately $818 left to spend per month for those other amenities. Unless you work overtime and take out loans going into debt which most Americans do.

My opinion is still far better living than paying $2,000 per month for a city apartment chained deep into student loan debt for the rest of your life but either way, you are a slave to the central bankers and Congress who systematically destroy the purchasing power of the US Dollar.

>>72463
Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley has sounded an alarm about the state of the US job market, saying Ford has been unable to fill 5,000 mechanic jobs paying $120,000 a year. Those $120,000 salaries are nearly double the US average.

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” said Farley in an appearance last week on the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast. He said the shortage of qualified manual laborers isn't confined to Ford, but is something businesses across the nation are struggling with.

“We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen. It's a very serious thing. We do not have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a middle class life and a future for his family.

Those jobs are out there. Mechanics in a Ford dealership -- as of this morning, we had 5,000 openings. A bay with a lift and tools and no one working in it. $120,000-a-year job, but it takes you five years to learn it. To take a diesel out of a Super Duty, it takes a lot of skill. You need to know what you're doing."

“We’re not just missing bodies, but we’re really missing ... skill sets that can connect to 21st-century manufacturing needs. The community colleges, the career tech programs do a solid job in providing foundational training, but we often see that they’re out of date when it comes to keeping up with how fast things are moving from a technology standpoint."

“For many years in the US, it was, you go to a four-year college and things are set up for you,” Farley said. "And the reality is, that path is not necessarily what it used to be. A more valuable path, in many cases, is getting a technical college or apprenticeship and starting to learn certain skills very early on.”

>>72479
If you make a $120,000 salary as a mechanic housing would be very affordable today. Sad thing is this country does not seem to have the skills or brains to work these jobs anymore. This turns into a third world nightmare scenario for the future if not corrected. So I disagree with Trump, we should NOT be bailing out colleges anymore. Let those crooked woke institutions go broke and shut down already. They've done enough damage to this country already.

Things would be a lot cheaper if the republicans stopped running up the debt, and Trump allowing corporations to bribe him and grift/steal. The second thing is the Federal Reserve nonsense. Nothing about jobs, inflation, etc will get fixed until that gets stomped down and under control. Right now we are headed for collapse at the expense of greedy CEOs, corporatists, hyper-capitalists.

It's the mass debt insolvency that is the real problem. It's economics 101. You cannot create endless amount of fiat currency (effectively counterfeiting) without destroying the purchasing power, the value, of that currency. This is why counterfeiting is illegal for people to do, it should be also be illegal for governments and central banks to do it too as it is a national security threat to our future economic well being. Everything is going up in price because the dollar is constantly losing it's value, it's purchasing power. Assets and property don't gain or lose value, fiat currency does. If the dollar only purchases half of the lumber it could 20 years ago then construction costs double and homes become more unaffordable. Economics 101.

Major companies like Palantir are starting to hire high school students because college graduates are a waste bothering with as the "educated" have turned out to be far less reliable, stupid and greedy. At least high school students are willing to get their hands dirty and learn new skills. If this is the future, so be it.

https://www.wsj.com/business/palantir-thinks-college-might-be-a-waste-so-its-hiring-high-school-grads-aed267d5

>>72592

What I would suggest our government do is hold the trade over the heads of the over-abundance of college graduates, that is to say make a deal with them. Learn a trade skill, get a job for 1 year, start paying taxes and we'll forgive their student loan debts after the first year working. No bailouts to the universities, no bailouts to colleges! Get rid of Obama's federal student loan program too. If these kids don't have enough money to go to college then they should be directed to vocational schools and learn a trade. This is what I would suggest conservatives push hard for, if they desire their country to be an industrial superpower again. Otherwise we are going full blown communist with a hard collapse and balkanization.