Editor's note: The title above isn't ours – it's Alan Caruba's in a post at familysecuritymatters.net. Below is an excerpt with a link to the entire article.
The Screwed Generation
By Alan Caruba
June is famous for weddings and graduations. Both are filled with great expectations and both are subject to great disappointments.
Today's college graduates are thoroughly screwed. According to Matthew Segal, the president of a non-profit membership organization called Our Time, “With 85% of college graduates moving back home and an average debt of $22,900 per student, thousands are staring at a bleak economic future.” You think?
Aren't these the eager, besotted youngsters who, at age 18, voted for Barack Hussein Obama as if he were the Second Coming? In the words of Herman Cain, a GOP presidential contender, how did that work out?
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A subject of growing contention is the way the nation's educational system has been “dumbed down” since the 1960s or the growth of “political correctness” that thwarts addressing issues involving ethnicity, ancestry, religious faith, and gender. Nor is there much discussion of the way colleges and universities have become sausage factories squeezing parents and working students for every dollar, pushing them through, and conferring degrees that, with the exception of the professions, often have dubious value.
