A new study from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst shows that military spending creates a very low number of jobs compared to spending on education and healthcare. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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@Ant1Live actually we agree i think education is the amount of? knowlege you have not the degrees you have.
the thing is that i think schools should have a better program and budget so people actually earn knowlege not Diplomas, but you are right i think my comment wasnt very clear, have a good day.
@heavytransit You and I agree? on one thing: having education SHOULD give you a better job. You and I disagree, however, on the definition of “education.”
@Ant1Live that doesnt mean that having education shouldnt give you a better? job, now obviously if you work hard you can do it by yourself, but the point here is which one creates more jobs military wich has a gigantic budget, or education wich has a fraction of the budget that the military is recieving.
@Bronzecop true.? lol
@Stingerbillion You’re talking to a rich kid man, expect him to bash on self-investment that makes people competitive? on his level lol.
Its offense spending, not defense spending.?
agree on other spending but they invest more than 150k on training a personel to operate the equipments in the military. if u wanna gt out of debt and decrease unemployment rat allow death penalty for convicts who has either 25 to life or has been through prison 2 or more time for at least? 4 years for each, the moment they r trialed as guilty for life take em out and shoot em in the face, its fast and cheap, u dont even need to bury them, just feed the body to the dogs or burn it
@Stingerbillion There would be greater debt, less creativity, more unemployment and underemployment and above all LESS LEARNING and LESS PRODUCTIVITY. Schooling is not the same as education. Right now, bachelor’s degrees are required for simple office work and the applications are mountains high because college leaves most people poorly suited to deal with job market fluctuation. It is a drain on society to expect people to pay so much? to get so little. Autodidact, anyone?
@Ant1Live I wasted valuable years to obtain my degree, and i am making a lot more than average American these days. I also have job security. Just because you don’t see the value in education doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. If Americans today study & obtain degree in jobs that have more demand and high salary instead of what they like or dislike, the UE number would be a lot? lower, high wages, and high standard of living.
@Stingerbillion Magically, right? If everyone had a degree, everyone could? get a job, right? There would be no garbage collectors because garbage would collect itself and everyone can be a doctor or an accountant because there are limitless numbers of jobs for educated people. Right?
Dedication, hard work and independent study lifted me out of poverty. Not some worthless, uberexpensive piece of paper that would have wasted valuable years out of my life to obtain.
@Ant1Live I will add since you? are ignorant and stupid: Education lifts people out of poverty.
@Ant1Live Education does create jobs moron. If you had any, maybe then you will know. Tell that to the software engineer who will innovate computers and new softwares. Tell that to researchers who will find cures for disease. Tell that to engineers who build bridges? and buildings. Education creates innovators and entrepreneurs. Best example i can give you are Chinese and Indian people who are highly EDUCATED. Fucking ignorant trolls.
@MastermindX The jobs for teachers are often make-work jobs. That isn’t “job creation” since those resources could be used elsewhere if people knew how much of a scam college is for most people. Education doesn’t create new markets, research and development does. Research can happen in schools, but it can also happen elsewhere.
Here I use the word “education” losely.? In reality, education and schooling are not the same thing.
@Ant1Live Education does create jobs for the teachers. Also yeah, allows people to sublimate structural? unemployment… by creating new jobs and new markets.
By the way, “education”? does not CREATE jobs. The market does. Education merely allows certain individuals to sublimate structural unemployment.
@MastermindX Education and school are not the same thing. As for Jesus, the entire history of this country has been about either entirely ignoring his importance, like you? do, or attributing to him words that he never even said, like most people who claim to be “Christian” do.
Education not only creates jobs now, it also makes the job creators of the future? (the actual job creators, not as a code-work for rich people), and it makes a country and an economy much better in so many ways.
Giving the chance of a good education to everyone is what made the west the superior and richer civilization (really, it’s not Jesus), and we are throwing that away.
@Ant1Live I’ll? take that as the latter.
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@madhillick Let it be self-evident and, yes, claim a victory. WHOO HOO!!!!! I? WIN!!!!
@Ant1Live Well are you going to point out how or just assert it? and claim a victory?
Is this a bit deceptive though? A lot of? teachers in the US get paid *horrible* wages, so perhaps a fairer deal for them would really knock down the number of jobs per billion dollars.
@village1diot It’s no longer the “defense? budget,” it’s the “imperalism budget”.
@Ant1Live I see it didn’t take long for you to resort to insults. But upon? closer inspection, it seems that you and I might agree more than we disagree. Unfortunately I may have jumped the gun and assumed you were advocating for this current oligarchical system. If so, I was wrong for assuming. Apologies. And fuck you, you’re a shithead too! lol
@village1diot But then it would be harder to convince the public to give their tax dollars to that kind of spending. It has to have a nice sounding name so that people can? feel okay about it.