Sarah Palin’s Warning to Young People: There’s a reason it’s not called FUNemployment

Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has a warning for college students – There’s a reason it’s called unemployement not FUNemployment.

This weekend at conservative blogger conference Right Online Palin lamented that young people were being tricked by the Left into taking out ridiculous amounts of student loans to get “useless” degrees that don’t lead to high-paying jobs.

Palin said liberal institutions are “enabling, encouraging and promising young people that they can just sign on the dotted line and take all those college loan dollars that are available.

Take all that you can get – saddle up and saddle yourself with 100,000 in college debt for a degree in say, post-structural feminist neo-colonial underwater basketweaving because the job market is so right for that. Don’t worry about the future kids – just have fun! There’s always ‘funemployment!’ Now we have a generation folks that is shackled with lifetime debt and often useless degrees. And how they perpetuate that deception. I wanna warn young adults, oh they have to be warned.

She encouraged young people to watch Citizens United’s new film Occupy Unmasked, premiering after her speech at the conference, because “it will blow you away” and explain why living out of a tent in a park isn’t hip – even if your college professor says it is.

“It’s sad that young people who are so in debt turn to this movement because their professors taught them that America is the root of all evil and that free-market system is unfair, thus it must be overthrown.”

Palin was the keynote at the annual convention, which was held this year in Las Vegas, Nevada. To read about or watch her entire speech, see “Sarah Palin Rocks Right Online.”

By /// June 18, 2012
Francesca Chambers About Francesca Chambers

Francesca is the Editor of Red Alert Politics - an online publication written by and for young conservatives. Red Alert Politics is a product of Clarity Media Group, the parent company of The Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard. She is also a contributor to The Washington Examiner.

Francesca is a veteran of several political campaigns and political organizations. She has also worked in new media and communications at The Leadership Institute, at the Republican National Committee and on Capitol Hill. She has been featured as a speaker at Leadership Institute, Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity's "Defending the American Dream Summit," the State Policy Network's annual conference and CPAC, in addition to appearing as a regular guest on the "Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann on Russia Today.

She has also appeared on ABC's "Nightline", PBS' 'NewsHour', PBS' "To the Contrary", MSNBC, CNN, on TheBlazeTV (aka Glenn Beck TV) and had radio segments on Take Action News with David Shuster, NPR and "The Michael Koolidge Show."

In 2012 she was named to the DC GOP's first ever "35 under 35" list.

Francesca graduated from the University of Kansas with BAs in Political Science and Journalism. At KU she was an editor of the University Daily Kansan and an active member of Student Senate.

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