Do those unemployed trades people also have hundreds of thousands in student debt that can't be erased by bankruptcy?

There are entire colleges and universities that are entirely online, what are you talking about?

Try looking at Thomas Edison State College in NJ - they, along with many other schools 'assemble' Bachelor and Master degrees from various sources, including professional training, life experience and ANY accredited school (community college, state school, private universities, etc.)...

It struck me as absurd that one could amass crippling debt as a result, not of drug addiction or reckless borrowing and spending, but of going to college

Really? It is absurd that students that barely graduated high school can amass a quarter-million dollars in guaranteed student loans while studying anything they want with no limitations?

What boggles my mind is that the federal government puts no limits on what people study on OPM (Other People's Money).

Why aren't student loans given out based on merit, rather than ability to fill out a federal student loan application?

"One fringe benefit for Google and Apple is that making your own programming language makes recruitment easier â" for instance, since it builds a lot of its own server applications in Go, Google is more likely to hire a developer who's already proficient in the language since she would need less training."

Because if they used, for example, Java, when they hired an experienced Java developer they would need MORE training?

Approximately how large is the pool of 'experienced' Go/Swift programmers outside of Google/Apple?

Yeah, but when was the last time we did that....

I believe that was under the previous administration - the current one seems very, very fond of continuing resolutions (as opposed to annual budgets) and would rather call the enemy 'JV Team' and leave them untold billions in armaments after our speedy withdrawal for political purposes (instead of declaring a war).

European nations battled each other for centuries.

At the time of the U.S. Revolution, France and England were fighting each other, for example.

Remember when the Romans wandered up out of Italy and made their way up to many European countries?

The Europeans found a way to co-exist (for the most part, as demonstrated by the European Union - imagine the EU existing 100 years ago, around the time of WW 1...).

Bad: Mouthing off about how we did it, so ISIS won't make the same mistake again.

Reminds me when the clever U.S. Press pointed out that the U.S. Military was tracking Osama Bin Laden's satellite phone... Then, suddenly, Osama Bin Laden stopped using his satellite phone and we spent several more years looking for him.

5 3/8 inch piece of wood cut in half is 21/8th of an inch, subtracting 1/8th for the saw blade.

Easy.

It hasn't been for over 40 years, what changed?

Are we really going to suffer through claims that the imperial measurement system is holding back our economy? Seriously?

I think you mean the U.S.G.S. - U.S. Geological Survey...

That worked hand-in-hand with several university researchers who claimed to 'independently' have 'proven' President Obama's claims regarding environmental policy...

Turns out the 'independent' researchers kept scheduling private meetings with EPA officials and asking for funding to attend symposiums, fund future studies, etc.:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

Perhaps you don't recall, but Obama once actually did try to close Gitmo and have the detainees transferred to federal prisons. Republican members of Congress balked at this notion as it would allow terrorists to have access to federal courts and give them certain rights that they do not currently have as "enemy combatants".

I don't recall Democrats clamoring to take gitmo detainees in to their districts...

The IRS is (still) going after people the administration doesn't like.

Only if your definition of "going after people the administration doesn't like" means asking groups to justify their request for tax exempt status as charities. Frankly, as someone who tends to lean politically conservative, I probably would not have granted many of these whiners their tax exempt status. I should also point out that many of these whiners, in the end, were given tax exempt status. Apparently, the IRS under Obama is more "conservative" than I am. Go figure.

The review process for tax exempt status was typically 99 days before Lou's Lerner, once Lois Kerner took over, a great number of conservative-leaning groups wound up waiting YEARS for their tax exempt status.

When President Obama was re-elected he 'converted' his election campaign into a tax-exempt organization... The very group that was previously a registered re-election committee became a tax-exempt organization, while small tea party groups waited years.

Oh, why did they wait? Because if the IRS denied the request, there was a well-defined appeal process that applicants could follow, and the IRS would have (I think) 90 days to defend their decision to a federal judge... It was easier to leave the group in limbo.

Oh, and lest we forget, Lois Lerner, the woman who single-handed lay redefined the 'right to remain silent' announced her department's improper actions by planting a question with a friendly reporter at a public speaking event so she could apologize for her department's improper acts.

*third* in line, after the Vice President.

Meanwhile, What about Microsoft? Exxon? All foreign workers employed, taxes avoided and shit like that?

They hire plenty of Americans, pay plenty of taxes...

With trillions a year paid in to help the fossil fuel industries and fuck all employement in the USA from it, this isn't worth noting.

The federal government subsidizes the solar industry completely:

Basic research
Production/manufacturing
Purchase of solar panels
Installation of solar panels (gov't training of installers)

The entire solar industry is propped up by government subsidies.

The 'trillions' you say the government gives to the oil companies are what is called tax credits for research and development, the same as every other industry... And your 'trillions' number is way, way off. The credits Exxon/Mobil gets are a fraction of the taxes paid by Exxon/Mobil.

But some non-fossil fuel help for an industry that environmentalists support and that's sufficient for you to come out with the hate.

As noted above, what you call 'some help' is propping up an entire industry on the backs of every tax payer AND every electric utility customer that underwrites the excessive rates utility companies are forced to pay for surplus electricity generated by solar panels.

Who builds toll roads? Private ventures licensed by the government.

Who can use a toll road? Anyone willing to pay for the roads.

Why do you think only government can build roads? The PA, NJ, and hundreds and hundreds of other toll roads were built by toll road authorities that receive ZERO tax dollars.