"The American dram"... you mean 1/8 fl. oz.? In all seriousness, mod parent up. The US and its general direction is most definitely skewed by these entitlements for property owners. Why else would people have gotten stuck in interest-only loans and bit off more house than they could reasonably chew? Something had to make people want to essentially rent from the bank instead of renting from a landlord. At least the landlord sends someone over to fix your drain.

Yeah, where might I post my resume?

Honestly, I am a liberal arts educated computer technician, currently unemployed in that field (I make furniture for a famous furniture company at 8 bucks an hour). Everywhere I see, resumes would much rather have associate's degrees vaguely associated with IT than a guy who has several higher level CS classes but chose to complete a different major first.

I know, duh! I should've finished CS instead of Music, but I was further along in music and wanted out in 4 years comfortably, can you blame me?

on the other hand, I did work with a guy interning to work in IT getting his associate's degree who had no hands on experience and was about to walk out with a piece of paper a month later. Does ANYBODY teach hands on experience in schools anymore? Ever?? Other than Home Ec in high school?