Lost Generation Betrayed by Obama
by Phyllis Schlafly
October 2, 2013

"It used to be that a college degree was a ticket to a pretty good job. No more. College graduates are now called the “Lost” generation because more than half of recent graduates are jobless, or working only non-career part-time jobs, or working jobs that don’t require a college degree.

Today’s college students have been betrayed by the Obama Administration in so many ways. It was just the start when government invited them to mortgage their futures by taking out big loans to pay extravagant tuition prices, and then they discover they can’t get a job worth the price of the loans.

Government loans even encourage students to borrow money to spend five or six years in college because, unprepared for college-level studies, they must take remedial courses to learn what they should have been taught in high school. Student loans now total $1 trillion, and the average student owes $25,000.

The government reports that the unemployment rate for Americans under age 25 was 15.6 percent in August, which is more than 2-1/2 times the rate for those over age 25. The real figure is over 20 percent if we count the thousands of jobless who are not in official figures because they conceal their unemployment by taking more worthless college courses or are just not looking for a job.

The failure to get a job that justifies their college debt means their lives are on hold. The entire generation is postponing moving out of their parents’ homes, getting married and having children, and are even having a hard time buying a car.
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Job prospects are just as gloomy for STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) graduates as those in less rigorous subjects. Obama’s betrayal of STEM graduates is even buried in (surprise, surprise) ObamaCare, where the good entry-level jobs are given to foreigners on H-1B visas instead of qualified Americans.

While most media coverage about ObamaCare has been about the exchanges, billions of dollars of contracts concern the implementation of ObamaCare. Federal tax dollars pay up to 90 percent of the cost to upgrade state Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), and health care has become a very important market for outsourcing.
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There are many good reasons for Congress to defund ObamaCare, but surely one is the sneaky, secret, underhanded plan to give well-paid ObamaCare jobs to foreigners instead of to our own college graduates who need them. Rank this as another of Obama’s gross betrayals of the young people who voted for him "

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