When Does It Become A Conspiracy?

I am not generally a conspiracy theorist. It takes too much time physically and mentally. I did detect a pattern yesterday that could almost send me over the edge.

Have you noticed that as manufacturing jobs (laborers and management) have declined so has financial help for college? At the very time young people are being turned away for jobs because their grandmas got them college loans particularly in the community college sector are nearly impossible to get. While I do not espouse the "you can't afford to go to college" theory at all it can be exceedingly difficult to work enough to take more than a class or two a semester.

Big deal. But that's not the whole pattern. If you can't get a job and you can't afford post-secondary training what's left? Assuming you're not in prison it's the military. If young people had no alternative and started joining the service Congress and the President would not have to do the dirty work of reinstituting the draft. Whew! Win-win for some. Lose big time for others.

Tell me I have too much time on my hands. Otherwise we are seeing America's future fight silly wars and "third world" countries turn out the scientists and engineers who will really run the world.