re: "Job Training"

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(at day's end, we all want our cars and our HVAC systems to run).

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And while we still manufacture many things in the U.S. - construction trades and others like auto maintenance cannot be outsourced. Ditto for first line medical specialities that require no more than trade school - getting kids 2 years head start might make a very brief course all that's necessary to work as a pharmacy tech, X-Ray/MRI tech, etc. - jobs much better than normal unskilled work available to teenagers after high school. Better than wasting time and money on a traditional 4-year college if you have neither the time or money to expend on it.

Fully 1/2 of the 4-year degrees are vocationally worthless. I consider myself an educated man and classical education for its own sake has a certain amount of intrinsic value to society. However, I'm not certain of the wisdom of publicly subsidizing people who will have to work low wage jobs to pay back subsidized loans on a education that will not pay for itself in ROI.

Just my $0.02.