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20 Reasons America Is Becoming An Increasingly Nonfunctional Society

mistermilo Wrote: Feb 09, 2013 12:28 PM
I present a side view to these issues. And that is , who gets the jobs. There is a company near me that makes those overhead steel frames on highways to hold Exit information , you know- Exyit 122 Gulch City 2 miles ahead. Their welders are mostly non American. They bring them in and teach the m how to tack weld. My son went to welding school. A trade school. While in school , the school got some level of authorization to grant Associate degrees. His course length went form 6 weeks to 7 months and his tuition quadrupled. He was stuck in an "in for a penny, in for a pound " decision. There are factors that are his problems, but I can tell you, he never was able to get a job as a beginning welder.

1) Starting in the sixties there was an explosion of children born out-of-wedlock and kids who don't grow up in two parent families fare more poorly percentage wise on just about any and every scale imaginable including substance abuse, teenage pregnancies, suicide rates, criminality and homelessness.

2) Many people are becoming so childlike in their dependence on the government that they can't save for their own retirement, escape from an oncoming hurricane, or even purchase their own birth control without the government handling it for them.

3) Our legal system encourages frivolous lawsuits, is punitively expensive...

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