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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's actually right.  Did you listen to what he said?

He said, unless you are seeking an occupation in something that requires college, don't go....And, with the debt that is such a burden for so many young people today, it is wise advice.
Far too many kids go to college with no clue about what they want to do.  Better to figure that out before you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to figure it out. 
He was essentially saying, "Don't be afraid to take risks."  Nothing wrong with that.  
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A lot of blue collar Dems and even Joe Biden say the same thing, and emphasize that going to community college and trade school is a better option for a lot of kids, but I guess when Tucker says it it prompts a freak out session?

I hate the political discourse these days, where the messenger always is privileged more than the message. In the same interview Tucker also said he “sounded like Noam Chomsky” and castigated the Democrats for being more beholden to corporate interests than they have in the past, when they were a working class / labor balance to Republican corporatism. Is he a “right winger” for saying that or can an actual left winger on economics like myself be thankful he’s getting out a message to ostensibly Republican voters that corporate power needs to be more restrained?[/quote]

They aren’t saying the same thing and it is out-dated advice. The days are over when a HS grad could get vocational, become an apprentice, and hire on at a factory or other large company, work there for 40 years with good pay and benefits, and retire with a pension. Since the decline of unions beginning in the Reagan years, blue collar workers are likely to work intermittently between layoffs, have to move and change employers multiple times, and at 50 they are discarded with no pension, a bad back and other chronic ailments, and prone to pain medication addiction. Look at the low savings rates of blue collar workers. Look at their decline in life expectancy. Look at their disability rates. It may look attractive to an 18 year old guy to make some money and buy a big truck rather than borrow money for college, but it’s a bad choice.  [/quote]

As with any job, trade jobs have opportunity for advancement. The 40 year old master plumber isn’t doing anything beyond subcontracting his work out to younger plumbers and getting paid to check up on jobs he has to sign off on for the sake of permits that won’t be approved without a master plumber’s signature, even though they didn’t actually do the work themselves.[/quote]

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