To the Unemployed--Try community college (smirk) . . .

[GreenPoet64]

And how does one support oneself and one's family while going to school? Does Bush actually think you can LIVE on a PELL grant?? :shrug:

[salvorhardin]

1. ...or that any job

one trains for in community college is going to provide a decent living afterwards?

[Kali]

9. Bush is an idiot

But I take offense at your comment. As someone raised and attended around a state university, and now with a son at community college, I say why the HELL didn't I know about this? The college my son is attending has GREAT career training - I wish I had done this back in my college days. I got very little out of the university and even with tuition waivers because of being an employee dependant, it was expensive.

Nothing wrong with community college. Its way more practical and serves the community a heck of a lot better than these athletic playschools full of spoiled football players on full "scholar"-ships.

[bicentennial_baby]

11. Thank you for saying that

I get so sick of elitist bullcrap about CC's. I go to an excellent school as well, with excellent faculty.

[salvorhardin]

12. Mea culpa

I didn't mean to dis the community colleges. What I was referencing was the insane credentialism one sees in job ads these days.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. as long as

you learned to read early enough...

Maybe he'll consider enrolling in a community college in TX in January.

[donco6]

3. Though the pundits aren't saying much about this. . . .

I think households across America let out a collective scream on that one. Get more education, indeed.

[dorktv]

4. Sad bit is that Community College is what Pells are paying

for now.

[noahmijo]

5. People with FOUR YEAR DEGREES are struggling!!

and I'm one of them!

[Disturbed]

7. Dumb and insane.

People who's jobs have been outsourced that have Master's Degrees in Computer Tech. are supposed to go to Community College to retrain. For what?

While the Rethugs and their kiss ass pundits are whining and feigning outrage about Kerry's comments regarding Mary Cheney being a lesbian, in a positive frame, the Media says nothing about jobs, healthcare and the demise of the Middle Class. Kerry said that he is tired of politicians talking aobut Family Values that do not value the family. Yeah, I am freakin' tired of it,as well.

[Dark Jedi]

13. Bush and Cheney. Which is dumb and which is insane? LOL

Add me to the list, friend! I am tired of problems like outsourcing and other economic woes being ignored. I have said this for a long time. The "conservatives" have their priorities all screwed up! The Reputridcans KNOW they are on the side of the indefensible, and therefore have screamed and made fusses over things that do not matter, just to DISTRACT the dumb people from seeing the very real domestic problems.

[Digit]

14. There are college grads working at Home Despot for crying out loud

They can't find any other jobs and dipshit's solution is for them to go to a CC?
He truly IS out of touch.

[coloradodem2005]

6. God DAMN Bush to hell!!!

That made me so mad. The other thing that made me mad was the flu shot thing. I agree that the kids and the seniors should have priority, but everyone should be taken care of. It is a right. How dare he say these things.

[Disturbed]

10. Canada is a third world country?

In the previous debate Bush said this in his usual dumbass way of making statements and after over 3 yrs. cannot approve of Americans buying drugs from Canada because they might not be safe. Getting getting flu vaccine from Canada is ok, though. This man is unfit to be our Pres. It is so damn obvious.

[nyrnyr1994]

8. Maybe that's what's behind the....

..."four more years" chant they have been so fond of :shrug:

I'm another one with a four year degree, and what am I doing now? Working as a waiter and a karaoke DJ. My vote was already cast in Kerry's favor before the debates, but *'s comment about education was a real slap in the face to me and everyone else that is in a similar situation.

[alevensalor]

15. I wrote a piece on this today

On my blog. http://watchingthewatchers.org?p=119

I went to a community college, too, and my wife's got a masters. Should we go back to school and get more education, because there aren't any jobs in computers?

~A!

[0rganism]

16. He's right. Since the high tech jobs are gone, I'm thinking HVAC courses

or maybe something in automotive or welding. Lucky for me, my local Community College has it all!

Meanwhile, I can use my engineering diplomas as toilet paper.

[Lisa]

17. I'm a community college instructor ...

And I wish Georgie would open his eyes and see a fraction of what goes on in my workplace. There are good kids who are smart enough for university but can't afford it. There are kids who are fighting cancer and need exams rescheduled because they are too sick from chemotherapy to write on the assigned date. There are kids who are being run ragged looking after ailing parents, siblings, and children of their own. There are kids who are serving in the military reserves to make enough money for school. (I'm giving thanks that this is Canada so they won't be toting rifles in Iraq ... but some of them will probably be deployed as peacekeepers sometime.)

I had a young woman break down in tears in my office yesterday because she couldn't afford the textbook for my course, and her last hope was that I might have a spare copy I'd be willing to lend her.

The vast majority of students here are clearly trying -- against the odds they pick themselves up and do as best as they can -- and they know, and I know, that for all their sacrifices the economic system the neo-cons are pushing will chew them up. Through it all, they're displaying a level of dignity which I doubt Mr. Bush can really understand.