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What a lot of people are missing is the fact that our society essentially forces everybody into a college degree. You are forcing an 18 year old that has zero work experience (outside of a part-time job doing remidial tasks) to choose where the rest of their life is going to take them. This is the portion of your life where you will go through more changes than ever. You will change mentally, emotionally, and physically at least as much as you did during puberty. You cannot expect that anybody at this time knows where there life is heading.

 You are telling these children, who aren't even old enough to drink, that they must invest tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars on a guess for what their future will hold. As these articles show, most students can't even balance a check book, let alone fathom what 100k in loans will do to the rest of your life.

 This is a problem with our society. We have absolutely no direction through high school. Hell, 75% of high school students are still absolutely positive that they will be playing professional sports in 5 years. Parents and teachers don't teach their children the negative aspects. They only focus on the diploma at the end of the 4+ years. When did somebody sit down and tell them that they will be paying $1000.00 dollars a month in student loans when you can buy a house for half of that?

 We can also blame our businesses. They see college as the training days of the workforce. They aren't willing to invest the resources to train their people anymore. That's why you can't even get an entry level position now-a-days without a 4 year degree or 4 years in the field. It's entry level! Clerical work that you need a degree for? Really?
 I have two bachelors degrees. My first from a State University in Biological Sciences and Secondary Education. The second from an online institution in the Science of Technology. I have been through it all and I shudder when I think of our future. I am also a teacher and know where our education system is heading. We should really look at changing things and fast.

So a teacher with two bachelors degrees still uses the wrong "there." Yeah, I guess we do know where our education system is heading.

And this is just beginning to scratch the surface of the problem from a purely economic view in which we not only participated, but actually blessed our own destruction. Simultaneously, taxation and other expenses keep going up due to inflation and the floating of debt. Housing prices are going through the roof and since most people are not constantly moving, they are feeling rich due to the housing prices. Inflation is viewed as a good thing.

Did not even really touch on the social engineering that went on at these institutions of "higher" education.

Either way, the biggest tragedy in all this is that we adopted a paradigm that made it almost impossible for us to live our Faith in terms of raising large families. Once that was well on its way, people discarded all other aspects of the Faith. The new Mass helped ditch it as well. What was the point anymore? We were and still are in a brave new world that makes it almost impossible to live the Faith from even a purely economic view.

It is a tragedy all around. And our bishops sold us out big time here. Oh and by the way, they were mostly Irish Bishops who were better at the game of Big City Politics like Tameny Hall and the Daly Machine in Chicago, than they were in promoting the Faith.

So why don't we start there and then work our way back as we try and clean up this mess? Everybody is going to have to take a couple of aspirin for their hangover and we are going to have to clean up this mess from one big party, where, as it ends up, most didn't even have much fun. Yes, it was kind of like one long New Year's eve party where it never lives up to the promise.