Rising number of overdoses amid dim job prospects for Millenials

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  1. JakeStarkey

    JakeStarkey Well-Known Member

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    That is the racist nonsense of the Alt Right.
     
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    That is actually what the Alt Right says, not the rest of America.
     
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    Millennials, like generations before them, are going to have to get trained, educated, and work hard to succeed. That is the American way.
     
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    I suspect they will be expected to get trained and educated for mediocre paying jobs. The pay's still the same, but now they are expected to go to school for 3 or 4 more years to do that job.

    For some people getting into $30,000 worth of debt and 3 years of their life in an unpaid training program isn't worth it. (Plus there are lots of people who've gone through these programs and afterwards found out it was a complete waste of their time and money)
    But hopefully employers will step up to the plate and offer on-the-job training or apprenticeship programs like they did in the old days.
     
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    Hog wash. Take eight years to get your BA, pay your tuition yourself, stay out of debt, and you will do fine.

    Become a CNA, then a LVN on your own dime, then the hospitals will pay your way through school to a Nurse Practitioner or a PA.

    HVAC, a two year degree, will start you at 80 thousand.

    What is your problem? Nobody gave us anything, and we did well.
     
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    so?? did someone disagree??
     
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    makes no sense, employers do on the job training all the time every day just to survive. There is no school that teaches you how to work at for example GM. If there was everyone could compete with GM. A company succeeds by doing things no one else is doing and that obviously cant be taught at schools, especially not govt schools.
     
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    Not me , my milenials are thriving. It was a bit of work, with a couple set backs but failure is not an option.
     
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    Worse, there are increasing numbers taking useless college courses. Courses which qualify them for nothing. They pay almost the same to obtain a degree in 17thC French Poetry (Groundhog reference!), as they do in Dentistry. Guess which pays off your loan?
     
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    Dude, I totally majored in Beyonce's Influence on Modern Gender Studies.
     
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    If you are educated in a discipline GM needs they will hire you now period.
     
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    Any person with half a degree in a STEM discipline is employable. Finally k-12 is figuring this out. Most high school kids I currently know are graduating with an associate degree, but you have to do the work.
     
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    and your point is???????????
     
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    ^^^ Silly ;)
     
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    james m, you are offering very little here.

    Tell the millennials how to get ahead, please.
     
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    Sessions gettin' tough on drug gangs...
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    US Deaths from Drug Overdoses Set Record in 2016
    September 21, 2017 - U.S. deaths from drug overdoses set a record of more than 64,000 in 2016, driven by an intractable opioid crisis, U.S. Attorney General said Thursday, citing preliminary government data.
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    US Attorney General Warns Gang Members: 'We Will Hunt You Down'
    September 21, 2017 — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned gang members on Thursday that they will be huntd down and brought to justice so they can no longer terrorize communities.
     
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    seems like a white problem

    http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel={"colId":"Location","sort":"asc"}

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/opinion/when-addiction-has-a-white-face.html?mcubz=0
     
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    as if someone agrees with that??
     
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    That was in a Republican capitalist Christian economy that grew at 3% for decades. Today liberals have shipped 30 million jobs to China with their taxes, unions and budget deficits; they have destroyed the families, schools, and religion of America rendering many unfit for the rigors of work, and invited in 30 million illegals to take the remaining jobs and drive down wages still further..

    Look at the change. In the 1950's Joe McCarthy could prosecute communists, today you have whole TV networks(MSNBC) that are communist and Bernie Sanders, an open communist, openly leads the Democratic party. Is it any surprise that we are getting soviet growth levels from the economy?
     
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    The above is a fallacy of confirmation bias as evidenced by very rightward slanted propagit.
     
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    can you be more specific?
     
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    If you don't get it, that's on you.
     
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    so you cant be more specific? Ever see a libertarian who has to run from a debate?
     
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