Comments on: Where wealth goes http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/153/where-wealth-goes/ If you find yourself here, hello. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: R J Keefe http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/153/where-wealth-goes/#comment-751 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:56:14 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/153/where-wealth-goes/#comment-751 The people are preoccupied - watching television! Great entry! The people are preoccupied - watching television!

Great entry!

]]> by: Phil Roberson http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/153/where-wealth-goes/#comment-721 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:52:28 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/153/where-wealth-goes/#comment-721 For years, I have heard people lament that we can't recruit the "best and brightest" into the teaching profession because the salaries are so low. I now correct people who make this claim, but not because salaries are where they should be; They need to be much much higher given the work teachers do! The reality is that, for recent college graduates, a teaching job is one of the few available anymore with a decent salary and "full benefits." Increasingly, college graduates with majors in many fields, like the increasingly popular degrees in communications and business, simply cannot find jobs at all. To pay their horendous student loan and credit card loan debt, graduates end up working multiple part time hourly jobs to make ends meet. Let's make the tax cuts permanent, ignore the obscene profiteering of the petroleum industry, and keep squandering billions on a no-win war in Iraq. Makes perfect sense to me. For years, I have heard people lament that we can’t recruit the “best and brightest” into the teaching profession because the salaries are so low. I now correct people who make this claim, but not because salaries are where they should be; They need to be much much higher given the work teachers do! The reality is that, for recent college graduates, a teaching job is one of the few available anymore with a decent salary and “full benefits.” Increasingly, college graduates with majors in many fields, like the increasingly popular degrees in communications and business, simply cannot find jobs at all. To pay their horendous student loan and credit card loan debt, graduates end up working multiple part time hourly jobs to make ends meet.

Let’s make the tax cuts permanent, ignore the obscene profiteering of the petroleum industry, and keep squandering billions on a no-win war in Iraq. Makes perfect sense to me.

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