Beginning
or returning to college is just around the corner
for most high school graduates. I say most, because
many are skipping college and jumping directly into
the work force. Be it employment back home on the
ranch or chasing the big money in the energy fields,
sidestepping college and earning a check runs
contrary to the conventional wisdom a post high
school degree is the ticket to success.
Interestingly, this rule contradicts one you learned
as a child about never taking candy from strangers;
a prohibition which trumps the college degree adage.
This truth is obvious once you follow the logic.
In 2010, President Obama nationalized the student
loan program so the federal government now holds the
debt for your education. They own you. Just last
week, Congress passed regulations holding student
loan interest rates at 3.9 percent. “Everyone is
entitled to a college degree,” claim politicians
offering nearly limitless dollars to high school
graduates. Simply scribble your name and eight years
and 100,000 dollars later you can graduate with a
bachelor’s in high demand fields such as philosophy
or transgender studies. This launches your career
and like the record 21 million other young Americans
currently living in their parent’s basements, each
day you can step into the public spotlight and
announce “would you like fries with that?” Thanks to
Obamacare, the 30 hour workweek will become the new
normal keeping new graduates broke and on food
stamps, but with plenty of free time to protest and
demand the minimum wage become a livable wage. “Jobs
for people; not for profit” smoothly flows off their
tongues as if each graduate had practiced the chant
during all eight years at their respective
universities. They did. This brings me back to
life’s first rule about not taking candy from
strangers. Student loans are the candy and there is
no one stranger than a politician—do not take it. It
is a trap.
Once you learn to read, an ability you should have
garnered in grade, middle and high school,
everything man has learned since the beginning of
time is at your disposal. With dedication and
self-discipline any subject can be mastered, so your
horizons are limitless. A driven and unrestrained
population thrives in a free-market economy, yet
progressives want everyone in college before
entering the work force. Make no mistake about it,
your term in the university is not about education,
it is about indoctrination because an 18-year-old’s
mind is highly moldable. Shape them before they earn
a living and they will glorify big government as
their god for the rest of their lives. For proof,
look no further than the voting patterns of any
university town.
I will put down my broad brush and paint the
details. There are certain degrees which give you a
leg up, but indoctrination infects in those fields
as well. When Tyler, my youngest, was earning his
engineering ticket he was required to watch Al
Gore’s undocumented documentary, “An Inconvenient
Truth.” During a casual discussion, he asked his
instructor to comment on the contradiction between
Al Gore’s global warming crisis and the government
sponsored alarms of the 1970s blaming evil
capitalism for global cooling and an impending
ice-age. His 36-year-old teacher had never heard of
such a discrepancy so Tyler pulled a 1970s edition
of National Geographic from a collection adorning
the shelves of the faculty lounge and tossed it to
his instructor. He was speechless. Apparently, he
had been indoctrinated to believe time began in the
1990s and the earth had never been colder, warmer,
wetter or drier than it was at that very moment and
this brings me to my point.
Because the borrower is always slave to the lender,
avoid debt regardless the sugarplum and lollipop
sales pitch of the terms. Excessive college debt in
senseless fields of study coupled with
indoctrination creates dependency which is the true
goal of the ruling class. Never take candy from
strangers.
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