Spotted on twitter:
Student loan forgiveness will never be a thing because the military would have one less thing to bribe young children into meat grinders.
I think every state should have a public college. UCLA it used to be free for residence until Governor Reagan ended that.
In MI we have Central, Northern, Western, Eastern Michigan Universities. These should cost $10,000 a year to attend. They are good schools. That will keep the costs down at the other colleges. And MSU and UofM can charge more because they are better schools. Any other school which feels it's better can charge whatever they want too. But these 4 schools should be subsidized. But Republicans wouldn't like that. They'd fight it. So college remains unaffordable and all Republicans can say to that is that a plumber can make a good living.
Welding is where it’s at. One good welder will contribute more to the world than all the liberal arts and applied arts and sciences grads ever will.
Actually no. The most valuable jobs are manufacturing jobs. Welding? That's a joke.
The manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 percent of total U.S. employment. Manufacturing employs a higher share of workers without a college degree than the economy overall. On average, non-college-educated workers in manufacturing made 10.9 percent more than similar workers in the rest of the economy in 2012–2013.
This report examines the role manufacturing plays in employment at the national, state, and congressional district levels, including the number of jobs manufacturing supports, the wages those jobs pay, and manufacturing’s contribution to GDP.
Manufacturing industries generated $2.1 trillion in GDP (12.5 percent of total U.S. gross domestic product) in 2013
Manufacturing’s impact on jobs is a reflection of its outsize share of U.S. economic production. Manufacturing is the largest sector of the economy, excluding real estate (which is dominated by imputed and actual rental income on property) in most states, as a share of GDP. Nationwide, manufacturing generated $2.1 trillion in GDP in 2013, equal to 12.5 percent of total U.S. GDP
The GDP data do not fully cover manufacturing’s impact because they don’t account for how manufactured goods generate significant demand for goods and services from other sectors of the economy, ranging from energy and natural resources to construction of new factories to services provided by accounting, engineering, software, and temporary help firms. U.S. manufacturing had gross output of $5.9 trillion in 2013, more than one-third (35.4 percent) of U.S. gross domestic product in 2013. Manufacturing is by far the most important sector of the U.S. economy in terms of total output (Bureau of Economic Analysis 2014a).
Despite policies that have shrunk manufacturing employment and hurt its international competitiveness, U.S. manufacturing is still a large and vital part of the U.S. economy. It accounts for 8.8 percent of employment in the United States—a total of 12 million workers in 2013—and plays a...
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