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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Careful with that generalization there! Iceland, Austria, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, all have lower unemployment rates than the U.S.
Unemployment rates do vary across Europe, but in 2007 the unemployment rates in Sweden, the U.K., the Netherlands and Norway were all very similar to the U.S. Certainly not "a LOT higher," as you claim. You can find lots of this information at http://www.bls.gov/ though you may have to do some poking around.
When you consider that the global unemployment rate is 6.3 percent, the U.S. doesn't really look like the champion of the world anyway. They're about middle of the pack for a developed country.
Now--explain to me how universal access to higher edcation causes unemployment? Even if it were true that countries that offer this have higher unemplyment rates (it isn't) how could that be the cause? Wouldn't other, more local factors be likelier causes? |
The point is that government entitlement programs make people less self-resilient and they start expecting the government to look out for them.
Unemployment is a by-product of that.