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There you have it. Scott Walker will bring in the era of no college degree required for commissioned military officers, the CIA, the FBI all the way down to staff in the White House. The new bar will be, no one should have more education than high school because that's all the president has. Brilliant.
This makes me think of Out of Africa when the tribal chief said children could only go to school as long as they were shorter than he was.
And there you go, someone who advocates a system wherein someone is automatically smart because of the piece of paper even when their job performance, intelligence and aptitude have long since indicated otherwise. Makes me think of a world where you can only get a good job because the wizard gave you a generic diploma like the wizard of oz.
Strange how liberals are constantly complaining about the overwhelming rise of the 1%, the decline of the middle class and the decrease in standard of living of the 99% but fail to note that this has occurred during a period and ever increasing level of total education. You demand and defend to the hilt, what I found 30 years ago got is to this point in the first place. A higher education system that since about 1975, or even earlier in Ivy League institutions has been instead of a place to train you to be the best you can be, trains you to be a cog on corporate USA. And I think you know it, that's why you are so afraid of a mold breaking scenario.
We have seen how badly the US has been screwed over by the college educated, maybe it's time for a progressive, transformative change.
Is Walker automatically stupid for having only achieved a HS diploma? No, not any more that ANYONE is automatically smart because of their masters degree.
I know of a place of employment, a farm, where the down and out ranch hand with the "lowly" bachelors degree in engineering went when the economy collapsed. He learned poultry farming and adapted. Today, and I mean literallty today after he picked up the $400 in duck eggs from his small flock, while his boss with the Masters from William and Mary, who has been passed out drunk for most of the last week (an extreme left liberal BTW), woke up to complain how unfair it is that the ranch hands 350 ducks on 1 acre out produce his 1500 chickens in 12 acres "because he has more education". Why you liberal want to maintain this scenario "to make the US better" is very instructive to the rest of the populace.
What does a college degree prove? That someone was able to pay for it (or borrow and default on the loan). Is any degree he might have earned 25 years ago really relevant today or is the 25 years of experience since them worth more? Bush who the left loves to revile was being stupid has degrees from Harvard and Yale, so which is it a degree is all that matters, or even someone stupid and unqualified can get a degree so a degree doesn't matter?
Only Republicans equate education with "elitist snobs". But thank you for answering my question. After Scott Walker, maybe your next candidate could be a grade schooler. Purity and all that.
A person can't get a job as secretary in the White House without a degree.
You need a degree to be a commissioned officer in the military.
You can't join the FBI, the CIA or virtually any federal position without a college degree.
Should we remove the college requirement from these positions so we don't have all federal employees with more education than the president? After all, he would be their boss.
Graduating from a college doesn't guarantee an education, only a credential.
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is very instructive to the rest of the populace.
