Comments on: Subsidizing the Subpar: An Improper Focus on HOPE http://moorethoughts.com/2008/05/22/subsidizing-the-subpar-an-improper-focus-on-hope/ Conservatism, Freedom, Capitalism Sun, 16 May 2010 00:37:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Rick http://moorethoughts.com/2008/05/22/subsidizing-the-subpar-an-improper-focus-on-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-233634 Rick Thu, 22 May 2008 19:15:46 +0000 http://moorethoughts.com/2008/05/22/subsidizing-the-subpar-an-improper-focus-on-hope/#comment-233634 This sounds about like the mortgage crisis in a way. The money stores gave more and more money to people unqualified to pay it back, then the world marvels at the foreclosures from people who did not know what they were doing in the first place. .....Now those in power are looking for more ways to give money to students in place of loans (loans that have the highest default rate of probably any loans out there) ,or heaven forbid have them actually work for it,to more unqualified people. Then they will marvel at the quality of work ethic ,in the future ,of young men and women who never had to exert a minimal amount of energy for anything they received. I think the plan is to find 1 out of a 100 that will become a producing adult in society, so this one will be able to support the other 99. You are right Nathan, the quality almost does not exist now, and society is doing it's best to lower it even more. I am daily trying to hire from this and the last generation of young people. I go through 100 applications, talk to 20-30 that can complete "most" of the application, schedule a 2nd interview for 8-10, only 4-5 show up, hire 2, 1 does not come to work the next day, and the other one comes in to work, ask for days off next week, and quits within the next 30 days. Time to start over again! The rarest commodity on our world today, work ethic. This is the real world. This sounds about like the mortgage crisis in a way. The money stores gave more and more money to people unqualified to pay it back, then the world marvels at the foreclosures from people who did not know what they were doing in the first place.

…..Now those in power are looking for more ways to give money to students in place of loans (loans that have the highest default rate of probably any loans out there) ,or heaven forbid have them actually work for it,to more unqualified people. Then they will marvel at the quality of work ethic ,in the future ,of young men and women who never had to exert a minimal amount of energy for anything they received. I think the plan is to find 1 out of a 100 that will become a producing adult in society, so this one will be able to support the other 99.

You are right Nathan, the quality almost does not exist now, and society is doing it’s best to lower it even more.

I am daily trying to hire from this and the last generation of young people. I go through 100 applications, talk to 20-30 that can complete “most” of the application, schedule a 2nd interview for 8-10, only 4-5 show up, hire 2, 1 does not come to work the next day, and the other one comes in to work, ask for days off next week, and quits within the next 30 days. Time to start over again! The rarest commodity on our world today, work ethic.

This is the real world.

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