Circling the Drain--Vindication of an Education/Jobs Prediction

Here's what I originally wrote back in 2005 about the future of higher education, jobs, and what may eventually become of our working class.

Now it has come home to roost in 2007, at least in part: U.S. News & World Report. Don't say I didn't warn you well in advance--I gave you a 2-year head start.

White collar jobs will continue to go to India, China, or robots/software, high-paying (and dependable) jobs in the service sector will go to illegal immigrants (who will have been made legal by politics), and the only so-called high-paying jobs left to us will be in politics, lobbying, and the military upper ranks--illegals will fill the rank and file (we always need more cannon fodder)so we may continue going to war for resources (oil, people, food, you name it). As we sit here, the market sector (Wall St.) is getting gutted from the inside out, brokers are being replaced by technology, and firms are bankrupting themselves trying to reach for more and more profits, no matter the risk level. Paying for college will become futile at best until a Democratic/Socialist congress comes along to finish the leveling job on the playing field, creating a whole new CETA jobs generation (this is what got the hippies out of the woods and off the streets back in the 70's).