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illuminati downfall
29-11-2008, 08:33 AM
My apologies to the mods if I posted this in the wrong section. I'm not sure where something like this would fit best. This seemed the most logical place.:)

I heard from a family member a couple months ago, something about the cost of college and university tuition set to go up. Apparently this was making students make the decision to drop out with no degree. Needless to say, I was annoyed at this and I could see a few big problems that this would cause if it did prove true. Well yesterday morning I turned on my radio in time to happen to catch a little bit about a tuition hike, which I think is coming next year. It looks like this is real indeed. I recall all the years I have been hearing of more and more people having to admit that post secondary education is out of reach, and go to working low paying jobs with little chance of much advancement. With this increase in tuition, coupled with the rising cost of everything else, making money even tighter for most people, and the fact that it just seems harder to get credit and to be approved for loans, I can see even less people getting post secondary degrees, in the very near future. Now I really hate to have a bleak view of the future here, but lately, when I see a group of small children, instead of seeing future doctors and lawyers, I see a group of future McDonald's employees. there is nothing at all wrong with being of low education and low earning level. I myself have no college degree and yet I consider myself to be a smart and confidant person. The problem is balance.

With less "professional" people there will be less who are able to work in health care, education, etc. Those systems will go downhill fast I'd say. Then there is the problem of creating enough of the low level jobs for the people who need them. How can that be done? I say a world with a lot more jobless people. In any case, the people who will be getting the post secondary degrees will no doubt be the children of the wealthy, who will of course them have one more reason to hold power of most other people. :confused:

Do you suppose all this is really planned chaos, designed to shift the balance of power even farther? Or is it just an unfortunate coincidence happening at the worst possible time? If this is part of the grand design, how does it all work. What would be the logic in giving the right to higher education to a certain few? I realize it could b the beginnings of an elitist society, but I don't quite understand yet how that all works or why it's logical. LOL, sorry I've been posting so much and asking too many questions in the last few days. I'm just really into this now I think. I get ideas at times, that something looks strangely well engineered and end up wanting to piece it together.