In my post on Islamic fascism, titled “Islam is Like a Disease – It will Kill You”, the first line in the body was -

… and so will our lackadaisical security posture.

I continued,

This past October, I was on vacation to see the Grand Canyon. As our small airport tour bus came into the vicinity of the Hoover Dam, we had to pass through the dam “security” they “installed”. There was a lone police car parked with no one in it. Our tour bus (airport shuttle type) was “inspected” by the Homeland Security dam guard who placed a foot on the first step of the bus as he leaned in to say “Good Morning”. Our driver then handed him one of the boxed continental type breakfasts we received as part of our tour “package” and he waived us through.

You can read the rest here if interested.
http://onislamicfascism.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/islam-is-like-a-disease-it-will-kill-you/

But your argument is we should pay off their student loans, because they should have instead become a mechanic?

I am saying that there should be a student-loan bailout instead for two reasons:

1. Our generation was essentially duped. Everyone told is to go to college, no matter what, no matter what you study, no matter the cost — and you will have a wonderful life! That was a lie.

2. By eliminating this debt burden, young people would be free to spend more money and then stimulate the economy naturally through consumer spending.

Um, 16-24? That’s hardly a workable definition of “youth,” and it doessn’t seem really useful in the US context.

While you are correct, there is a distinction to be made. A statistic like “X% of 16-24 are unemployed” is useless by itself in America. But when the rate of change is significant, that is still telling even though the lower end of the age range does not normally have full-time jobs anyway.

The the statistic involved 22-30 year olds, I bet it would reveal practically the same results.

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“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.”

#09 – THOUGHT POLICE

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“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”

#08 – THREE SLOGANS

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“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” – G. Orwell

See here for other relevant observations: http://www.alternativereel.com/includes/top-ten/display_review.php?id=00085

Really, this is the first I have ever heard of this “trend”.