Yea and how many of the hundreds that come over do that? Not many. Sometimes its who you know, not what you know. You seem to think this just happens all the time. Not true and upward mobility has become way harder than in the past. Basically you need luck and immigrants get more free grants. This sounds like your full it, You don't even know this person. This was a right wing story you decided to repost from another right wing thread. I see these post all the time. Unless you have family backing, it is almost impossible. Most in the medical field come out with around 500,000 - 600,000 dollars in debt. Oh yea the usual, people are just lazy. Not that there is a major lack of good paying jobs. You are full of it.

your the same guy that wants less pay, less insurance, less everything for the worker. In the 80's we subsidies 80% of college, we now only subsidize 20%. You figure it out and back than college was not needed to be wealthy.

It's difficult to explain. Let me think on how to explain it clearly.

Nope, but i do act like a thug around black people :/

I grew up with alot of them, so it's natural :T

Well, when I hang out with my black friends I feel like I have to act tough and not laugh at anything and say "DAMMM" every time a good looking girl walks by.

This man doesn't sound like a thug when he was poor. His voice made him rich..

Pretty good point. There is a strong relationship between inequality and many of the problems in society.

I used to be pretty poor. At the same time, I used to dumb myself down to speak to people. After a while, I couldn't stop myself. Later on in life, those same people became more articulate and capable of having deep conversation and I was still stuck in "gangsta" mode. I realized that I should have always been myself. It took a long time to get out of that mindset and become what I am, today.

If you are intelligent and capable of deep thought, don't lower yourself to the level of someone else. Why limit yourself out of fear of being called "smart"? Wouldn't it be better to raise other people to your level or just find people that are your intellectual equals?

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The amount of money you have should have nothing to do with a conversation

I have experienced the need to dumb down conversation and language with certain people but that doesn't really correlate to poor people (i don't know any poor people).

First off, if you want to meet Sirisha I can introduce her to you ...

If lack of college education is preventing upward mobility, can you please explain why the college graduation rate has steadily increased for decades:

The reality is that the vast majority of people are getting a college education has no practical use, and this didn't impact our parents generation that much because there were far fewer graduates fighting over the same number of entry level jobs; and their University degree made them stand out against the average person with a high-school diploma.

Now, I'm 100% against funding universities beyond their current level because I'm aware of where the money is going:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/colleges-spend-less-on-students_n_846347.html

Dartmouth College was cited, in particular, as one institution that overstates expenditure on students. According to the report, Dartmouth officials say the college spends $104,402 per student each year -- almost twice the annual tuition cost of $49,974. But the study finds that Dartmouth is spending $88,000 per student before instructional costs are even considered.

The reason tuition has increased to nearly 3 times the level it was in the 1980s (when you factor for inflation) is not because education has become more expensive, it is because schools are wasting far more money on unnecessary things.

Now, as for the comment about "Less pay, less insurance, less everything for the worker" I don't know where you got that; and it is actually the opposite of what I want. I want the economy to be as strong everywhere as it is locally so workers can demand better pay with better benefits because there are more jobs than workers. I think people should have access to true healthcare insurance that protects them against unlikely events rather than expensive healthcare benefit programs that are (mostly) abused by a small handful of people.

With that all said, if you want to fix the upward mobility problem a few things have to change:

1) The teachers union needs to be broken so that incompetent and ineffective teachers can be fired
2) Schools have to agressively kick students out who are preventing other children from learning
3) Parents have to become far more involved in their children's education
4) We have to stop subsidizing poor decision making