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The crime rate, especially drug crime, decreases significantly when more 16-44 year olds have access to affordable Vocational Education and Training, (VET) according to a new University of Melbourne report.
Drug crime rate decreased 13 per cent when more people had access to a publicly-funded place in VET. The research also recorded a five percent and 11 per cent decrease in personal and property crime respectively, including assault, theft and burglary.
Report author, Dr Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute found that the extra public funding of VET (TAFE and private colleges) reduced the costs of crime.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @10:58AM
They have options, they're just too lazy or stupid to learn a skill/trade on their own.
Yes, those lazy fucktards working three minimum wage jobs, barely surviving on the edge of starvation. They should use all of that free time, disposable income, and excess energy they have to go back to school and learn something more useful then cleaning or flipping burgers.
(Score: -1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 29 2016, @11:17AM
Yes, they should. You think it's easy for those of us who did? Should I tell you how I used to get two hours of sleep twice a day while I was in college all day and jockeying a register all night? Would you like to hear how my large family lived off the income of one waitress while my dad went to school? How about when he finished and she went to school? Cry me a fucking river.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @12:40PM
"If I could do it, everyone can" argument. That's a bit ignorant.
So please tell me, oh Mighty Buzz, of the time you broke the 10 second barrier for a 100m sprint. Speak to me about your thought-provoking theories about the nature of space-time. Please, grace us with your world-class singing skills.
Or if you didn't do all those things, explain to me why not? After all, other people could.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @03:03PM
Buzz is really proud of how he was the smartest kid in school. Not just smarter than all the other kids, smarter than all the teachers too. He'll tell you how he didn't learn anything from them because teachers are useless. He's such a special snowflake.
And now here he is pretending to be nothing special at all.
Which is it buzz? Are you exceptional or are you run of the mill?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @04:41PM
I'd say it's more likely that he didn't learn much because our schools are and were utterly useless and without decent standards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:30PM
Easy to say. But far from true. You don't get to be the most prosperous country in the world if your public education system is total shit.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by rondon on Friday July 29 2016, @12:44PM
Serious question - regardless of the arguments before this, the sum of your argument seems to be, "because my family had it hard and made it out ok, everyone else that has it hard should do the same." Is that accurate?
Because I would think that having it hard would lead to some empathy, instead of disgust, which is what it appears that you have for poor people.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 29 2016, @04:25PM
Look up his post history, please. Uzzard is one of those pathological cases whose mental world is a bubble of predatory, self-regarding darkness. About half a dozen of his best (hah...) should convince you what I'm talking about. There is a kind of toxic solipsism at work here.
We are speaking here of a person whose entire political outlook begins and ends with "taxation is theft," which is how overgrown rebellious teenagers with beer guts and mesh caps say "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." Remember that quote about the difference between Atlas Shrugged and LotR? It may not have been written specifically with carrion-face here in mind, but it could very well have been.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:39PM
> There is a kind of toxic solipsism at work here.
Its a defense mechanism. As a kid he was a social outcast. So he reacted by deciding that his social failures were not a function of his poor skills but rather that everybody else sucked. He aged physically, but intellectually he never matured out of that mindset. Whether his parents enabled that or not, he's a cautionary tale for all those parents who tell their children they are superior in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Which is especially ironic since he's the first to complain about that sort of attitude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @10:29PM
Its a common rraction from people who have worked their way out of bad situations. Pretty sure there is some demographic layout to who feels that way as well.