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August 7, 2011
Unemployment Rate for Those with College Degrees
Posted by Vanderleun at August 7, 2011 4:34 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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But there's hope, Gerard! Straight out of the Monty Python Book of the Meaning of Life: Students can pay for their education by selling their organs!
From the UK:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Debthit-students-urged-to-sell.6811975.jp
Posted by: Jewel at August 7, 2011 4:49 PM
Dr Calum MacKellar, director of research at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, said the move would be exploitative. "To place a financial value on human beings or parts of human beings undermines the inherent dignity of the human person and the innate as well as immeasurable worth of all individuals," he said.
But, under the system in which Doc MacKellar works, it's perfectly okay to ration -- or deny -- medical treatment to those same human beings based on nothing more than *ahem* financial considerations. Right, Doc?
Posted by: BillT at August 7, 2011 6:38 PM
Woo-hoo! more time to play video games, tweet, and read Facebook!
Posted by: ErisGuy at August 8, 2011 3:39 AM
More time to play Farmville on FB and watch Dancing with Stars.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston, Texas at August 8, 2011 10:55 AM