Obama Between Two Ferns

• WebFire

  Automatik;1589250 wrote:Not finding it funny = uptight? ok.

  No. But uptight people wouldn't find it funny. And there are lots if uptight people on OC.
  
  Hope that helps.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  It was average, didn't find it funny or offensive. It was an unremarkable person trying to be a comedian, and ended up bringing Zach down - or at least as far down as Hangover III left him. God, that movie was terrible.
• Belly35

  

  I found the skit to be funny but in general it was a commercial for Obamacare failure agenda. Call a spade and spade it was what it was meant to be Obama appealing to the dimwits of dimwits to support his Obamacare cluster fuck.
• sleeper

  

  I personally didn't find it that funny and the Healthcare.gov plug was super IWP. Young people don't have jobs that can pay for a cell phone bill much less a cell phone bill and a crappy insurance plan they will never use.
• WebFire

  sleeper;1589262 wrote:I personally didn't find it that funny and the Healthcare.gov plug was super IWP. Young people don't have jobs that can pay for a cell phone bill much less a cell phone bill and a crappy insurance plan they will never use.

  I'd also like to see the plan that only costs what my cell phone bill does.
• TedSheckler

  

  How presidential.
  
  We are watching the degradation of the office of the presidency.
• Devils Advocate

  

  TedSheckler;1589270 wrote:How presidential.
  
  We are watching the degradation of the office of the presidency.

  
• QuakerOats

  TedSheckler;1589270 wrote:How presidential.
  
  We are watching the degradation of the office of the presidency.

  
  It is stunning how far we have fallen, but this is exactly what happens when you elect a marxist community activist.
• LJ

  

  The majority of responses in this thread make me sad for our country.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  LJ;1589336 wrote:The majority of responses in this thread make me sad for our country.

  It took you that? I'd consider the employment prospects of our young people.
• LJ

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1589347 wrote:It took you that? I'd consider the employment prospects of our young people.

  Maybe if our young people weren't a bunch of morons who got degrees in stupid shit, that worry wouldn't be so great. Just like the girl in my fb yesterday complaining about her student loans and her low paying job.... with her art degree.
  
  Give me a break, Obama on 2 Ferns is probably one of the LEAST concerning things any President has ever done. Yet, here we are with people in here completely overreacting to it.
• Automatik

  

  ^^Something we agree on.
  
  College grads / young people are naive as fuck...expecting the employment red carpet to be rolled out after graduating with BS degree.
  
  Protip: it doesn't work like that.
• OSH

  

  LJ;1589374 wrote:Maybe if our young people weren't a bunch of morons who got degrees in stupid shit, that worry wouldn't be so great. Just like the girl in my fb yesterday complaining about her student loans and her low paying job.... with her art degree.

  What's the numbers of unemployment-to-stupid degrees? I'd be interested in that. I don't know if I've ever seen that study. I know unemployment is high for Psychology degrees, but how many people are graduating with a Psychology degree and are unemployed? I wouldn't bet that the unemployment rate is high because of those individuals.
  
  And, what is a degree not worth getting? Some would say getting a JD would be worthwhile and help get some money...but law jobs are hard to come by.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Nothing like using one dumbass girl on Facebook to categorize a generation.
• LJ

  

  OSH;1589378 wrote:What's the numbers of unemployment-to-stupid degrees? I'd be interested in that. I don't know if I've ever seen that study. I know unemployment is high for Psychology degrees, but how many people are graduating with a Psychology degree and are unemployed? I wouldn't bet that the unemployment rate is high because of those individuals.
  
  And, what is a degree not worth getting? Some would say getting a JD would be worthwhile and help get some money...but law jobs are hard to come by.

  Unemployment isn't the issue, underemployment is. Sure those psychology degrees may not be ticking up the unemployment rate, but that is because they are all working at Starbucks.
  
  As for JDs, the industry is growing at an average rate, law school enrollment is growing much faster than that. Blame the schools for both issues. Stop pushing kids towards degrees where either A: it's a worthless degree or B: the kid will only be average in a very competitive field
• LJ

  

  SportsAndLady;1589381 wrote:Nothing like using one dumbass girl on Facebook to categorize a generation.

  Yeah, she's totally the only example like that to ever exist. No one has ever said the same thing, never.
  
  Good call bro
• Manhattan Buckeye

  It isn't just JD's, it is STEM's, the job market isn't great for them.
• Mohican00

  

  The share of Americans ages 22 to 27 with at least a bachelor’s degree in jobs that don’t require that level of education was 44 percent in 2012, up from 34 percent in 2001, the study found.

  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-06/college-grads-taking-low-wage-jobs-displace-less-educated.html
  
  count me in
• OSH

  

  LJ;1589383 wrote:Unemployment isn't the issue, underemployment is. Sure those psychology degrees may not be ticking up the unemployment rate, but that is because they are all working at Starbucks.

  Both are issues.
  

  LJ;1589383 wrote:As for JDs, the industry is growing at an average rate, law school enrollment is growing much faster than that. Blame the schools for both issues. Stop pushing kids towards degrees where either A: it's a worthless degree or B: the kid will only be average in a very competitive field

  So, then, it is the school's fault for graduating kids with art degrees, psychology degrees, physical education degrees, etc. This means, schools should only offer degrees in fields where there is needed employment.
  
  Is it always easy to continue pointing fingers instead of tackling a bigger issue -- higher education costs/spending. Many of these issues wouldn't be as major if higher education were more affordable, especially in relation to the degree chosen.
• WebFire

  OSH;1589401 wrote:Both are issues.
  
  Is it always easy to continue pointing fingers instead of tackling a bigger issue -- higher education costs/spending. Many of these issues wouldn't be as major if higher education were more affordable, especially in relation to the degree chosen.

  Wouldn't this problem actually be worse if education was cheaper. I'm not saying it shouldn't be, but then you'd have even more people with degrees trying to find work.
• LJ

  

  OSH;1589401 wrote:Both are issues.
  
  
  
  So, then, it is the school's fault for graduating kids with art degrees, psychology degrees, physical education degrees, etc. This means, schools should only offer degrees in fields where there is needed employment.
  
  Is it always easy to continue pointing fingers instead of tackling a bigger issue -- higher education costs/spending. Many of these issues wouldn't be as major if higher education were more affordable, especially in relation to the degree chosen.

  Underemployment is a much bigger issue for millennials.
  
  I think some universities in the state systems should offer only degrees in fields with higher earning and employment potential. These degrees should come at a lower costs.
  
  There are also jobs out there. I looked for shits and gigs, but Chase has 751 full time job listings in the Columbus Metro.
• BoatShoes

  LJ;1589411 wrote:Underemployment is a much bigger issue for millennials.
  
  I think some universities in the state systems should offer only degrees in fields with higher earning and employment potential. These degrees should come at a lower costs.
  
  There are also jobs out there. I looked for shits and gigs, but Chase has 751 full time job listings in the Columbus Metro.

  Our society is currently undergoing a human disaster with regard to unemployment and underemployment. It does not seem that way really because our country is so incredibly rich already. When you consider people who are counted as unemployed + People who are "not in the labor force" but affirmatively claim they want a job and people who are employed part time but want full time work, there are about 6 people for every available job...and that is not even considering how many of these jobs would be considered "good jobs"
  
  
• OSH

  

  WebFire;1589409 wrote:Wouldn't this problem actually be worse if education was cheaper. I'm not saying it shouldn't be, but then you'd have even more people with degrees trying to find work.

  If education were cheaper, then there wouldn't be as much of a debt issue with the degrees.
  
  Maybe there'd be more people going to school to get degrees, but I am not sure how much finances actually play into the college decision. I see the people not going to school as the people that don't want school. Whereas, if someone went and got their art degree, student loan debt wouldn't be an issue and he/she could still work at Starbucks and not have that many issues in living.
• dlazz

  I appear to have stumbled into the politics forum again.
  
  Or the mods aren't doing their job. Either one.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  " I looked for shits and gigs, but Chase has 751 full time job listings in the Columbus Metro."
  
  And they likely got 10,000+ applications, and are hiring a dozen.
  
  There is no way that Chase is hiring 700+ in Columbus, when they just laid off thousands in Charlotte and New York. Most of these work listing are just fishing by headhunters to get resumes.