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If America were built by the type like Michael Bloomberg of NYC, there would be always a "market" for electricians to fix the broken chips in your home appliances and Bloomberg himself would be riding a donkey and mopping the floors in Manhattan... Now Harvard and Stanford should be pissed with him for mindlessly talking down their next year's revenue projection ...
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lo yeeOn
May 21, 2013, 12:03:41 AM5/21/13
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The reason why the U.S. won the race against the USSR is because we
figured out how to miniaturize electronic circuitries and make them
entirely cheap to replace whenever any part in them fail. So, why
shouldn't the New American Century's toilets be that way too?
(Of course, the key here is not miniaturization but standardization
and automation with respect to toilet disposal and replacement.)
That guy is just so full of hubris when he is so ignorant and doesn't
even realize it. The student loan crisis has to do with all the MBA
and lawyers our society has produced and encouraged to produce. All
those online advertisements from Harvard, Stanford, and Pennsylvania
tell you that they want your money and so they mislead you to think
that if you get a piece of paper from them, you will be set for life.
The gullibles, under today's economic conditions naturally will be
taken in. I remember reading an article about the Occupy Wall Street
protests. And one woman shopper somewhere, probably in MB's NYC, was
quoted as accusing the portesters for being lazy and for interfering
with her freedom to enjoy her shopping experience that night.
The interesting part is her revelation that she was studying for an
MBA and had been studying hard and therefore needed time out to shop
in order to relax.
Of course, she was borrowing to finance her super-expensive MBA
education at some school in the East Coast (as well as affording her
shopping habits), with the expectation that she would be the next
Carly Fiorina and able to rake in the doles. Fortunately though,
there just aren't that many "HP"s to blow their fortune on these MBA
grads anymore.
MB might be thinking of Elizabeth Warren's bill re the student loan.
What people should realize is that the schools who have been reaping
the benefits from these loans are most culpable and should be held
responsible for the loans when their educational services fail to
perform.
Naturally MB is in league with the bankers and the neocon warmongers
who have crippled and continue to cripple our economy. But how is MB
going to make that woman pay, for example - who bought into the MBA
get-rich-quick dream but will find out it ain't what she was promised?
In China, the top guns get to go to Qinghua for free while the rest
can still go to school with a little bit of their parents' savings and
become specialists of all sorts, including a kind of white collar job
called logistics.
That means China is both sensible in terms of maximizing its human
resources as well as refusing to dehumanizing those who aren't
Einsteins. If MB has his way, he would surely run America to the
ground, with his extravagant taste for America's War on Terror as well
as his dehumanizing treatment of America's future generations.
lo yeeOn
Mayor Bloomberg's advice to students: become plumbers
Get short URL
Published time: May 20, 2013 21:07
http://rt.com/usa/plumbers-college-bloomberg-mayor-551/
A college education won't necessarily fatten your pockets, but the
billionaire mayor of New York City has a suggestion he wants students
to consider before they sign any costly tuition checks: what about
becoming a plumber?
Yes, that's career advice courtesy of New York's Michael Bloomberg:
the Big Apple's media mogul-turned-billionaire mayor who recently led
an unsuccessful campaign to ban oversized sugary drinks in his
city. Now after making a name for himself as the nanny of Manhattan,
Mayor Bloomberg is apparently already considering another career
change - this time as guidance counselor.
During his weekly radio show on Friday, Bloomberg shared some words
with listeners looking for career advice. It's no secret that jobs
are hard to come by nowadays, and the amount of debt brought on by
unpaid college loans now surpasses what Americans owe on their credit
cards. Mayor Bloomberg offered his input on the issue during last
week's show, and said students who aren't destined for the top of the
class should consider another option that's not so costly.
"The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college
graduates who aren't rocket scientists, if you will, not at the top of
their class," Bloomberg said. "Compare a plumber to going to Harvard
College - being a plumber, actually for the average person, probably
would be a better deal."
"You don't spend... four years spending $40,000, $50,000 in tuition
without earning the income," mayor added.
Later, Bloomberg explained that some vocational jobs - like plumbing -
won't ever been outsourced overseas or replaced by machines." "It's
hard to farm that out... and it's hard to automate that," he said.
One day later, the mayor had similar words for the graduating class of
Ohio's Kenyon College. According to Fox News, Bloomberg told graduates
on Saturday that "I know that today's job market is not easy," and
acknowledged, "... today, if I interview a recent college grad who
tells me he or she spent the summer curing cancer, bringing peace to
the Middle East, and writing the Great American Novel - I'm impressed.
Again, however, the mayor said dreams of being successful shouldn't be
dashed just because college isn't in the cards. "I'm more likely to
hire the person who spent his or her summer working days, nights, and
weekends for an auto-body shop or a construction company in order to
pay tuition or help with family bills," Bloomberg told the crowd.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for a
manual worker like a plumber in 2010 was roughly $47,000, a good
$15,000 a year annually more than other occupational workers pull
in. And as MSN pointed out, recent college grads aren't guaranteed
much more than hefty student loans: for 2011 graduates, the average
debt went up 5.3 percent from the year before. Bloomberg, on the other
hand, was estimated to be worth $27 billion as of this year.
figured out how to miniaturize electronic circuitries and make them
entirely cheap to replace whenever any part in them fail. So, why
shouldn't the New American Century's toilets be that way too?
(Of course, the key here is not miniaturization but standardization
and automation with respect to toilet disposal and replacement.)
That guy is just so full of hubris when he is so ignorant and doesn't
even realize it. The student loan crisis has to do with all the MBA
and lawyers our society has produced and encouraged to produce. All
those online advertisements from Harvard, Stanford, and Pennsylvania
tell you that they want your money and so they mislead you to think
that if you get a piece of paper from them, you will be set for life.
The gullibles, under today's economic conditions naturally will be
taken in. I remember reading an article about the Occupy Wall Street
protests. And one woman shopper somewhere, probably in MB's NYC, was
quoted as accusing the portesters for being lazy and for interfering
with her freedom to enjoy her shopping experience that night.
The interesting part is her revelation that she was studying for an
MBA and had been studying hard and therefore needed time out to shop
in order to relax.
Of course, she was borrowing to finance her super-expensive MBA
education at some school in the East Coast (as well as affording her
shopping habits), with the expectation that she would be the next
Carly Fiorina and able to rake in the doles. Fortunately though,
there just aren't that many "HP"s to blow their fortune on these MBA
grads anymore.
MB might be thinking of Elizabeth Warren's bill re the student loan.
What people should realize is that the schools who have been reaping
the benefits from these loans are most culpable and should be held
responsible for the loans when their educational services fail to
perform.
Naturally MB is in league with the bankers and the neocon warmongers
who have crippled and continue to cripple our economy. But how is MB
going to make that woman pay, for example - who bought into the MBA
get-rich-quick dream but will find out it ain't what she was promised?
In China, the top guns get to go to Qinghua for free while the rest
can still go to school with a little bit of their parents' savings and
become specialists of all sorts, including a kind of white collar job
called logistics.
That means China is both sensible in terms of maximizing its human
resources as well as refusing to dehumanizing those who aren't
Einsteins. If MB has his way, he would surely run America to the
ground, with his extravagant taste for America's War on Terror as well
as his dehumanizing treatment of America's future generations.
lo yeeOn
Mayor Bloomberg's advice to students: become plumbers
Get short URL
Published time: May 20, 2013 21:07
http://rt.com/usa/plumbers-college-bloomberg-mayor-551/
A college education won't necessarily fatten your pockets, but the
billionaire mayor of New York City has a suggestion he wants students
to consider before they sign any costly tuition checks: what about
becoming a plumber?
Yes, that's career advice courtesy of New York's Michael Bloomberg:
the Big Apple's media mogul-turned-billionaire mayor who recently led
an unsuccessful campaign to ban oversized sugary drinks in his
city. Now after making a name for himself as the nanny of Manhattan,
Mayor Bloomberg is apparently already considering another career
change - this time as guidance counselor.
During his weekly radio show on Friday, Bloomberg shared some words
with listeners looking for career advice. It's no secret that jobs
are hard to come by nowadays, and the amount of debt brought on by
unpaid college loans now surpasses what Americans owe on their credit
cards. Mayor Bloomberg offered his input on the issue during last
week's show, and said students who aren't destined for the top of the
class should consider another option that's not so costly.
"The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college
graduates who aren't rocket scientists, if you will, not at the top of
their class," Bloomberg said. "Compare a plumber to going to Harvard
College - being a plumber, actually for the average person, probably
would be a better deal."
"You don't spend... four years spending $40,000, $50,000 in tuition
without earning the income," mayor added.
Later, Bloomberg explained that some vocational jobs - like plumbing -
won't ever been outsourced overseas or replaced by machines." "It's
hard to farm that out... and it's hard to automate that," he said.
One day later, the mayor had similar words for the graduating class of
Ohio's Kenyon College. According to Fox News, Bloomberg told graduates
on Saturday that "I know that today's job market is not easy," and
acknowledged, "... today, if I interview a recent college grad who
tells me he or she spent the summer curing cancer, bringing peace to
the Middle East, and writing the Great American Novel - I'm impressed.
Again, however, the mayor said dreams of being successful shouldn't be
dashed just because college isn't in the cards. "I'm more likely to
hire the person who spent his or her summer working days, nights, and
weekends for an auto-body shop or a construction company in order to
pay tuition or help with family bills," Bloomberg told the crowd.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for a
manual worker like a plumber in 2010 was roughly $47,000, a good
$15,000 a year annually more than other occupational workers pull
in. And as MSN pointed out, recent college grads aren't guaranteed
much more than hefty student loans: for 2011 graduates, the average
debt went up 5.3 percent from the year before. Bloomberg, on the other
hand, was estimated to be worth $27 billion as of this year.
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