Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "AMNESTY For Undocumented Immigrants Is The Solution To US BIRTH RATE DECLINE: Chuck Schumer" video.

  1. "We're short of workers!" So, for the first time that workers have SOME leverage since the Reagan administration . . . don't mix this with emigration reform. That's gaslighting.
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  2.  @ubiquitousdiabolus  What is a "useless major?" The most common degree BY FAR over the last 30 years is Business. The next most common are the health related majors, with Nursing at number 1. People who study humanities get an education degree or a communications degree, and also study web applications, audio and video production, photography, etc. The business majors who do not take finance or accounting or calculus are studying mostly fluff. They don't learn math or how to read and write on a level. I agree with points 1, 3, and 4 -- all true.
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  3.  @marieroxylox1456  1. "Gender Studies" (the new name for Women's Studies) degrees are rarities, accounting for about 0.5 to 2% of all degrees. The others you mention are relatively uncommon degrees as well, compared to Business, and they lead most often to Law School. "Gender Studies" may be a pre-law degree as well, or the person may go on to an MFA, MPL, etc. Or, doctorates, of course, and then writing books (there is little point to a PhD if you aren't going to write actual books, plural, although some historians and political scientists do work as civil servants for the State Department). Gender Studies is not usually a terminal degree that can lead to a job, true enough, the way an EE degree pretty well always will. In short, the degrees you mention have nothing to do with the prohibitive cost of higher education, or make much difference concerning anyone's inability to pay back their loan. Sorry for knowing stuff. You're right, it is useless. And worse than futile. Why did I even write this? I clearly had the wrong major.
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  4.  @ubiquitousdiabolus  Well, people with those degrees typically go on to get an MSW, an MFA, a Master's in Education, a JD, or even an MPA or MBA (if they took enough math). Or they go to college primarily for social reasons, then get a paralegal certificate, or they train in one of the med/tech fields, and get hired before those without the BA. Yes, I know people like that. Yes, a major hospital will hire a person with any BA plus certification to operate the MRI machine or to give mammograms before they will hire someone from community college. Fair or not, it's simply true. A friend who was a Marine and then got an art degree from one of the best schools in the world now sets up communications infrastructure (anything and everything to do with connecting to the Internet, etc.) and they fly him out all around the country to do the work spectacularly well, and make it LOOK NICE, too. Hectoring kids into majoring in Business or Nursing when they don't want to is the mistake. You have to like what you're doing to do it well.
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  5. Wall Street did that.
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  6. That has happened too.
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