In Paul Ryan's speech he talked about young men who live in their mid 20s who are living in their parent's house in the bedroom they grew up in. The fading Obama poster is still on their wall.
I have two stories.
One is about a young man named Brian. He's a nice man. I know him. He has a masters degree in Bus Administration. He has a teaching certificate. He wants a job. He is convinced there are none out there. He is waiting right now to teach High School on a substitute basis for a hundred buck a day. He frankly is lost. Will never get out of this conundrum until he breaks lose from the idea that the world owes him a living because he went a long time to college. He is deep in debt from his college education. A hundred grand. He will NEVER see daylight. He is a victim of a sad lie told him by a college government conspiracy that will rob him of his future. It's all over for him.
The other young man is Adam. My nephew. The son of my brother and his wife. He went to work at a Shipping Company for what was not much more than minimum wage thru a temporary agency. Now he has been there two years. He has become a full time employee. He has a business degree. He has some 3ducation debt. YET. He took a crappy job to get in the door.
Two years later he is about to double his income by being excellent. He has moved up. Not because of his education, because he became an expert at what he was doing.
He will soon be in in six figures.
Brian could do this, but he needs to get out of his parents bedroom and starve until he is hungry enough to get there. Motivation is everything. Education is nothing.
I have watched this tale take place before my very eyes. It's very sad. One is a permanent loser and one a winner on the way....
Who's fault is it???
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