When watching the second debate last night I was surprised to see the first question was about education. A 20 year old college student named Jeremy asked the President and Governor what they can say to reassure him and his parents that he will be able to sufficiently support himself after graduation. Now, this may have been the most poorly answered question in the entire debate (or maybe just for me since I am interested in education). Governor Romeny was the first to answer and all he did was boast abou the Abigail Adams Scholarship awarded to students in Mass., knock on Obama for crushing the middle class, and say he wanted to extend Pell Grants and some other worthless fillers. Oh, and of course, he said that when he is president he will bring good jobs back into the economy, but that was it. Not how, not what kind of jobs or anything, just good jobs back in the economy.
President Obama's answer may have been even worse. He said he he is glad that Jeremy is valuing higher education and that he wants to build on the 5 million jobs he has already created in the private sector. Then he said he wants more manufacturing jobs for college grads (which was the most disheartening for me). And then he basically used the rest of the time to give a brief overview of his plan to fix the economy and yadda yadda yadda.
SO, not only did neither of them really asnwer the question, President Obama implied he wants college graduates to work manufacturing jobs! So now my college degree will get me a job in a factory and allow me to join a union! Whoo Hoo! At least Romney said he wants to bring back good jobs to the economy.
Anyway, education sucks, debates suck, Jeremy sucks.
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