Now let us get a few things straight about who these loony goons are. For the most part they are spoiled rotten brats who took out huge loans to pay for four years of self-indulgence at some over-rated liberal arts college. Somehow, they were able to spend a few months in the fall camping out and protesting against the working class while not working themselves.
They are in that upper 1% who do not have to work.
And they are prodigious increasers of entropy.
Among their many mistakes was the 99% meme. I think the point was to differentiate between the upper 1% of wage earners. However, as Don Surber (and many others) have pointed out, the true 99% encompasses far much more. I have many friends and family members that never even sat in a college class. They still individually earn more than the poverty rate for a family of four. All of them are part of the 53% that pay 99% of taxes. Sure, many of them had a hard time finding a good paying job. But they got their jobs by proving their value through hard work. None of them got a job by camping out in a park and protesting potential employers.
If they’re the 99%, then why did the Commies and Neo-Nazis endorse them?
All this anti-college education movement in the USA is mind boggling. But what else could be expected from an empire which has been crumbling for a couple of decades now? Last time I was in the USA I saw a bunch of obsolete and poorly supported infrastructure which reminded me of a former Eastern bloc nation. Thankfully the Chinese know better than spout crap this. Heck, they even got a civil engineer for President.
The people who did the Apollo program got their college degrees in a post-WWII environment in which the state funded many people’s higher education.
This also smells awfully like the 1930s. Hitler also laid the blame for their economic downturn on the unemployed, elderly, sick, etc. Stalin blamed it on ‘wreckers’ who spend state resources studying or engaging in non-useful activities like genetic research or rocket planes. He also like to persecute artists which engaged in ‘unscientific’ or ‘unrealistic’ styles of expression.
All this anti-college education movement in the USA is mind boggling. But what else could be expected from an empire which has been crumbling for a couple of decades now?
What anti-“college education” movement? And the “crumbling of empire” is a natural outcome from leaders who think that everyone should have a college degree (driving up considerably the cost of the degree in the process!), BUT not that the degree should be useful in any way.
As to crumbling infrastructure, there’s plenty of money available. But it gets spent on new infrastructure, not so much on repairing the existing infrastructure.
You can’t blame this penny-wise, pound-foolish behavior on anti-education since the vast majority of government leaders and bureaucrats making the decisions are college-educated. Most voters in turn have some college education though less than half of those have a full bachelor’s degree. It isn’t some uneducated mass that forces us to spend vast sums on disaster recovery or cushy weapon development contracts, but very little on disaster preparedness or the actual fighting of military conflicts.
The people who did the Apollo program got their college degrees in a post-WWII environment in which the state funded many people’s higher education.
The state is funding more peoples’ education than ever. Why did things get worse, Godzilla? Sounds to me like here, you don’t understand the problem.
This also smells awfully like the 1930s. Hitler also laid the blame for their economic downturn on the unemployed, elderly, sick, etc. Stalin blamed it on ‘wreckers’ who spend state resources studying or engaging in non-useful activities like genetic research or rocket planes. He also like to persecute artists which engaged in ‘unscientific’ or ‘unrealistic’ styles of expression.
Political correctness is an example of this “smell” and one which comes from academia.
The thing to remember about the Nazis and the Communists is that they didn’t make the situations that they took advantage of to rise to power. Somebody else did. But in the US, we see the very parasitic groups which caused the problems using those problems to gather even more power and wealth.
Maybe some of the #Occupiers will take their MAs in Puppetry and go fix a few bridges. Oh, wait…
Oh yeah, and since when is Wall Street considered to be the pinnacle of people in employment? They are the capitalistic equivalent of GOSPLAN so it is hardly surprising disenfranchised people hate the place so much.
Wow, Godzilla took a bunch of straw men, threw them down a slippery slope, and grinded them up in a thrasher of false assumptions. That was an epic rant!
Don’t forget Godwin. A comment so divorced from reality is not even worth fisking. God bless Karl.
They are the capitalistic equivalent of GOSPLAN so it is hardly surprising disenfranchised people hate the place so much.
I see another bit of misunderstanding here. They may be the “equivalent” to a central planning bureau, but they are in no way similar.