What to say?

[thewayne]

"Cheap student loans keep people out of the labor market. This is a dangerous spiral."
—Tucker Carlson

Out of the 'cheap labor market' since they'd be without degrees and couldn't get anything except jobs that paid really poorly, perhaps? And what kind of an interest rate did Carlson get on his loans? I understand that interest rates should be competitive, but they're trying to gouge people preparing to enter the job market.

There is a need for highly educated people, also for highly trained tradespeople. Both need post-high school education.

This is ridiculous.

Comments

[silveradept]

Wait, so he thinks that people should go straight into the workforce from high school? Does he also think there are thousands of good-paying union jobs still to be had, or something?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Considering the bubble that some of these conservatives live in, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he thought something like that.

I worked my butt off for a decade out of high school working jobs that paid better than minimum wage, but not by a lot. It took me a decade to get in to a good paying job.

[silveradept]

Yeah. And I doubt that today's graduates are going to be able to survive long enough to get to those jobs, assuming there isn't more outsourcing and downsizing of the entry-level things they'd have to hold down to get to that point. Better for them to go to school and get a degree so as to skip that first decade of stuff.

Or, in case their job actually requires schooling, so they can do what they want to do.